Not arguing either of them are nice people I ever wanted to be in a room with or god forbid near my family, but that isn't the same as saying the overall idea driver at a company isn't contributing. Yes he is a total ass, and hating him is popular (and what he did with X was egregiously stupid and well it cost $20b+ and I wish he would STFU except around rockets) but believing that boosters could land and be reused and pushing that idea despite most people "who knew" telling the world it would fail, look pretty stupid now (in the same way Michael Dell looked stupid criticizing Apple over making "multi-colored computers", and a couple years later Dell had the brilliant idea to make non-beige/gray computers). Musk carried that idea to the brink of bankruptcy when finally falcon flew without blowing up. Sure I wouldn't get on a rocket he designed, but I would get on a rocket he convinced and obtained funding for a skilled engineer to design...
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