This is from the WSJ – a column by the excellent Tim Higgins. “Selling the Dream of SpaceX Was the Easy Part. Now Elon Musk Has to Hang On”
I have excerpted the last four short paragraphs & note “rocket science” comment. The entire column was about SpaceX initial quarterly report —
Yet not everyone is buying the AI story.
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All of which is why Musk carried himself in an unusual fashion Tuesday. He sounded, dare say, patient with analysts and their questions. That was a change from some earlier, infamous Tesla earnings calls when he lost his temper and even berated “boring, bonehead” questions about the meat and potatoes of that company’s business.
Instead, Musk even offered to elaborate on one complex question, sounding sympathetic to an analyst’s plight. “Obviously if somebody’s trying to create a financial model…you have to plug in some numbers here,” Musk said.
And, in his own way, he asked for investors to be patient, too. “Rocket science is an idiomatic expression for extreme technological difficulty,” Musk said. “And there’s a reason for it because, let me tell you, what rockets desperately want to do every flight: They desperately want to blow themselves into tiny pieces.”
Nobody wants that. Not Musk. Not investors. After all, they bought the ticket and, now, they are taking the ride.