Standard rotations are about 6 months - Butch and Suni were supposed to be up there for 8 days... Their families, their lives, and everything normal for way longer than planned. Health routines or not, that’s a brutal toll—mentally, emotionally, not just bones and muscles. Stop downplaying it like it’s no big deal
SpaceX is private, however this whole Starship program has NASA (public organization) funding parts of Starship's development for lunar exploration, as part of the Artemis program
I haven't had to take my Tesla in for any maintenance. My VW Golf however needed annual maintenance and taken in to the dealer service center. Completely different experience
They've been peddling compute since mid-2000's, however Nvidia has been around for much longer. To the revisionist history point, I'm unfamiliar seeing any of this prior to that. Unless I'm missing something, they were very much a graphics only company competing with 3dfx, Matrox, S3, ATi, etc
Anyone saying this package is unreasonable likely doesn't know that:
- This compensation package was approved, and he would only obtain payout if and only if Tesla reach some considerable aggressive milestones.
- This was in 2018 when the company was not doing well relatively.
- The shareholders at the time voted 74% in favour of the package.