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by dotnet00 751 days ago
>Elon was clear that the decision to fly in that configuration with no water or diverter was his call, and in this case it almost destroyed the pad, accelerated the rocket’s failure, and led to the program being grounded pending FAA review.

That is not the same as what you said. He made the final call (him taking ownership over decision making is literally his job, the alternative is blaming engineers for not forseeing every issue and devolving back to old space's wasteful waterfall style development), you claimed that the engineers knew it would be a disaster. That is false.

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Citation? Because the engineer, who worked for space-x, in the article I linked, clearly knew it would be a disaster. There were also posts on twitter throughout that engineers were VERY concerned about the decision (because they knew it would be a disaster).

Meanwhile your source is - yourself? Who also appears to think (both in this thread and your post history) that anyone who points out Elon's flaws "hates" him.