Elon Musk drove SpaceX rockets from Texas to Florida by road instead of using a barge, navigating around overpasses and power lines with a circuitous route. When overhead wires still blocked the way, a crew in a van used long poles to lift them. Musk's approach: physics are the only laws, everything else is a suggestion.
Have you heard the story of Elon getting his rockets from Texas to Florida? He fly it there? He drove it there. The normal way everyone gets their rockets to Florida is on a barge. He's like, "No, we're going to drive it instead." First answer was, "It's impossible." He said, "Physics are the only laws. Everything else is a suggestion." Well, it's impossible to get it through overpasses. He's like, "Well, what would be the shortest way to get there without encountering a single overpass?" They do this like extremely circuitous route all on back roads. And they're like, "But even if we do that, there's still a problem with power lines and telephone wires." And so they have like some of the smartest people on Earth driving in a van in front of these rockets with big poles, and they just push up the telephone wires. So they can go under, and then they go to the next telephone wire. Yes. You just have to, like, approach it like a caveman almost to, like, beat the impossible.
