I was responding to your broader statements, which as stated were not strictly about the original narrow context about Challenger. Every company has pretty much the same or similar repercussions with respect to speaking up/out. Apple, or say Timnit Gebru at Google.
> If you read up in this thread, the argument was that Elon is safer than NASA.
There's nothing to decide either way. There have been failures at his companies, and at the same time 13 crewed missions on SpaceX rockets without human casualties.
That's what I'm saying. Promising to deliver brain-computer interfaces and failing at it is not the same as, pretty much anything else.
> I do not agree with the idea that Elon's companies have a culture where it is safe and repercussion-free to report that things are busted.
And this is different from say Apple (or the majority of large corporates) how?
> If you read up in this thread, the argument was that Elon is safer than NASA.
There's nothing to decide either way. There have been failures at his companies, and at the same time 13 crewed missions on SpaceX rockets without human casualties.