> The technologies to delivery humans to and back from Mars with any defensible level of safety do not currently exist.
But are being worked on. This statement would've been true about landing Falcon 9 stages less than a decade ago.
> The sort of people that advocate otherwise have killed innocent civilians deep in the North Atlantic and are failing to run a previous healthy, if unspectacular, social network.
The differences between SpaceX's approach to safety and how Twitter's being run are pretty stark. Same guy, very different cultures. SpaceX's safety record is good enough for NASA, and they're hardly the #yolo set.
While I agree (and give a lot of credit to Gwynne Shotwell for the steady hand), that reinforces the point; that you can do space work somewhere inbetween "startup" and "giant defense contractor" style approaches.
But are being worked on. This statement would've been true about landing Falcon 9 stages less than a decade ago.
> The sort of people that advocate otherwise have killed innocent civilians deep in the North Atlantic and are failing to run a previous healthy, if unspectacular, social network.
The differences between SpaceX's approach to safety and how Twitter's being run are pretty stark. Same guy, very different cultures. SpaceX's safety record is good enough for NASA, and they're hardly the #yolo set.