Enjoy (video, 59 seconds). The BBC’s piece is here, Elon Musk’s Starship booster captured in world first. Predictably, the BBC has not reported the fact that SpaceX took a leaf out of NASA’s Apollo 11 mission – the first manned landing on the moon, in 1969 – for this project, barring women from the related engineering teams. As Elon told me some months ago in one of our regular Zoom calls, by way of explanation, “Hell, Mike, it’s only common sense. The first time we allowed female engineers to design a bridge over a highway, the damned thing fell down!!!”
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An amazing achievement. As to the infamous collapsing bridge, which collapsed very shortly after a fanfare because it had a female designer and was built by a female led construction company (as I recall it was built with the wrong sort of concrete). I was interested in the story because a couple of years before a UK University (which had Julie Bindel on its number) had established a post grad for female civil engineers. This was interesting because of the “pitch” made in the advertising and promotional material. In a nutshell it claimed the industry had changed from one that involved “site visits” and wearing hard hats and boots to one where all this was gone in favour of “creative meetings” and working in state of the art offices. Of course the picture it painted was actually unflattering to women, as it suggested their appearance and comfort were more important than the actual engineering in choosing their career. It later struck me the Florida bridge that collapsed so suddenly and fatally might have benefitted from good old fashioned site visits where someone might have noticed the wrong materials were being used ….. rather than convivial creative meetings.
As a principle I don’t believe in excluding people based on genitalia, however the years of DEI do raise questions about competence and ability when merit has been sidelined for other metrics.
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Slightly off topic. The BBC report does become farcical as it desperately tries to rain on the parade, by suggesting that Space X is in some way an offense against the woke religion of climate change. Finding the “carbon footprint” is derisory they are reduced to finding a scientist who doesn’t know what they are, but speculates the substances “we don’t know about” might be harmful; if we knew what they were!
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