Elon Musk

Shut up, assholes.

That's what the main comment's going to be about.

God damn it.

The point is, actually, in retrospect, we should have started with done steal in the beginning.

That's why I initially said that the issue is that we weren't making fast enough progress.

We were having trouble making even a small barrel section of the carbon fiber that didn't have wrinkles in it.

Because at that large scale, you have to have many plies, many sort of layers of the carbon fiber.

You've got to cure it, and you've got to cure it in such a way that it doesn't...

have any wrinkles or defects.

The common fiber is much less resilient than steel.

It's less toughness.

Stainless steel will stretch and bend.

The common fiber will tend to shatter.

Toughness being the area under the stress-strain curve.

You're generally going to have to do better with steel.

Stainless steel, to be precise.

I think maybe just what they're trying to say is that you don't have to have prior experience in the rocket industry to work on a Starship.

Somebody just needs to be smart and work hard and be trustworthy and they can work on a rocket.

They don't need prior rocket experience.

Starship is the most complicated machine ever made by humans, by a long shot.