Nothing official yet. A lot of speculation so far, most of it probably wrong. This is a pretty big setback. Second failure in their last ten launches, iirc. Launchpad damaged. Biggest hope right now is that it was something other than the rocket that was the cause. Elon is going to be very busy with SpaceX for the immediate future.
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Nothing official yet. A lot of speculation so far, most of it probably wrong. This is a pretty big setback. Second failure in their last ten launches, iirc. Launchpad damaged. Biggest hope right now is that it was something other than the rocket that was the cause. Elon is going to be very busy with SpaceX for the immediate future.
MarcG
Active Member
Single-point-of-failure much?
More like control-freak-can't-let-anyone-else-write-my-blogs syndrome
Give him a break guys, it is a really bad day at SpaceX.
Go straight to 1:10 for explosion.
Go straight to 1:10 for explosion.
Hengist
Member
Not exactly. "End of weekend" <> "end of THIS weekend". Even Tesla events start late.
Buddy
Member
Musk is Tesla's driving force. He takes the company's mission very seriously, it's a personal goal with him. He likes to write the most important announcements himself, I think. So give him a few days. The world will keep spinning, life will go on. Go outside, enjoy the long weekend.
At the Gigafactory event recently, the "Remarks" were always scheduled for 9PM, and to my astonishment, Musk and Straubel entered the event venue and appeared onstage at exactly 9PM by my watch (Apple Watch, synced to online time servers, so very accurate).
So Tesla events do not always start late. But certainly almost all of them have run behind.
Hengist
Member
The exception tests the rule. "Almost always start late. There was one known on time event. And investor calls start timely too. But customers, not so much."
My snarky side conflates this with no coat hooks and no grab handles, and three years to get decent cupholders as marks of hubris.
Sir Guacamolaf
The good kind of fat
That can't be true, your apple watch battery would be dead long before 9.
Didn't you hear that Apple secretly uses Tesla GF batteries in the Apple Watch? So while all the blogisphere was sure the Apple Watch's battery life sucked, turns out it didn't. And thus the rumors of "Apple Car" are born as well!
eye.surgeon
Active Member
Here's a thought. If you have to postpone a major announcement regarding the future of one company of which you are the major principle, because of an emergency in another completely unrelated company of which you are the major principle, perhaps you have too much on your plate.
Put another way, do the stockholders of Tesla deserve a full-time CEO? Is Tesla too big for a CEO that spends by all accounts at least half his time working for another, unrelated, company?
Put another way, do the stockholders of Tesla deserve a full-time CEO? Is Tesla too big for a CEO that spends by all accounts at least half his time working for another, unrelated, company?
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fallen888
Participant
Successful, driven, visionary, innovative, smart people hardly ever sit around with a half empty plate... one could argue.
I'll take 33% of Elon Musk over 100% of anyone else.
It isn't a major announcement. It's a blog post that will detail a software update that isn't slated for release for probably at least a couple of weeks or more. Not exactly urgent stuff.
TaoJones
Beyond Driven
Principal, no, and no.
Prior to the upcoming merger news, the last I recall was that Elon would remain as Tesla CEO until after the Model 3 platform stabilized. Thereafter, one presumed that he'd probably focus upon getting to Mars, and who could blame him.
As Tesla becomes more of an energy company, there will also be new efforts - for example, meeting an entire country's energy needs through solar and wind. Just a question of which country will be first.
Down the road, he can leave the CEOing to others and will still have significant impact. But so far, he's doing great in spite of catastrophic events.
CuriousG
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HookBill
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The problem I have with the theory that EM did not release his 8.0 news on August 31 because of the SpaceX disaster is hard to understand based upon time frames. His 8.0 reveal was to go out no later than midnight on the 31st. The SpaceX incident appears to have occurred 5-6 hours after that on September 1 based upon the light sky from the videos and the corresponding tweets soon after. From what I can surmise, the 8.0 news was held up for other reasons and the RUD perhaps simply compounded the situation later. This, to me, says the SpaceX situation was not the direct cause of the original 8.0 delay but perhaps became a belated victim.
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