Elon tweeted out evidence that the dive rescue team co-leader did want the mini-sub option.
BBC News previously indicated that the rescue chief indicated that the SpaceX rescue mini-sub was not practical. Elon Musk indicated that person was a former Thai provincial governor and not the rescue chief.
The former Thai provincial governor was inaccurately described as “rescue chief” was not the subject matter expert. The expert was Dick Stanton, who co-led the dive rescue team.
Dick Stanton indicated that the Thai rescue team was worried about the smallest boy.
Elon Musk had his best engineering teams at SpaceX and Boring Company working on the mini-sub.
The former Thai provincial governor (described inaccurately as “rescue chief”) is not the subject matter expert. That would be Dick Stanton, who co-led the dive rescue team. This is our direct correspondence: pic.twitter.com/dmC9l3jiZR
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 10, 2018
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I think the final nail in the coffin of the PR fiasco was his disaster tourism going to the cave itself. Did he really need to be there? If the rains had come back earlier, the sub or the bag pod might have been used though. It was bad enough in there even with the respite from the rains and more pumps. It wouldn’t have taken a lot to make the situation substantially harder.
I think the final nail in the coffin of the PR fiasco was his disaster tourism going to the cave itself. Did he really need to be there?If the rains had come back earlier the sub or the bag pod might have been used though. It was bad enough in there even with the respite from the rains and more pumps. It wouldn’t have taken a lot to make the situation substantially harder.
England hates Musk
England hates Musk
The guy just got a lot of flak because many people perceived he was doing it only for the attention (IMO, he was), and the torrent of hate he got for it was amazing, venting some apparently long held hatred for him all at once. Which is also very telling of human nature: the goals and purpose of your actions be damned, just stay on your expected role and look nice (or fake it), but above all, don’t make all the rest of us look bad. Or more succinctly: doers do and haters gonna hate.
The guy just got a lot of flak because many people perceived he was doing it only for the attention (IMO he was) and the torrent of hate he got for it was amazing venting some apparently long held hatred for him all at once.Which is also very telling of human nature: the goals and purpose of your actions be damned just stay on your expected role and look nice (or fake it) but above all don’t make all the rest of us look bad.Or more succinctly: doers do and haters gonna hate.
I think the final nail in the coffin of the PR fiasco was his disaster tourism going to the cave itself. Did he really need to be there?
If the rains had come back earlier, the sub or the bag pod might have been used though. It was bad enough in there even with the respite from the rains and more pumps. It wouldn’t have taken a lot to make the situation substantially harder.
England hates Musk
The guy just got a lot of flak because many people perceived he was doing it only for the attention (IMO, he was), and the torrent of hate he got for it was amazing, venting some apparently long held hatred for him all at once.
Which is also very telling of human nature: the goals and purpose of your actions be damned, just stay on your expected role and look nice (or fake it), but above all, don’t make all the rest of us look bad.
Or more succinctly: doers do and haters gonna hate.