"Because we're idiots": Musk's reply to a Starship relight suggestion became procedure
esrtweet · x · 2026-11-15
After an early Starship prototype crashed when an engine failed to relight, a user suggested igniting two or three engines and picking whichever worked. Musk replied "because we're idiots" — and that became the actual procedure, a much-shared anecdote about rare openness to evidence.
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