Really interesting to hear this engineers POV from interacting with Elon Musk, it's really the best interview I have seen in a while. Because he is at the academic level of intelligence, but his ability to understand typical humans is clear and concise.,(reply>), @Gary Ferguson Why?,(reply>), @naught Beat me to it. Like especially Michio Kaku, seriously? Michio Kaku was absolutely incapable of even putting together a new script for the past decade. <br><br><br>Pick - any - video of him and you'll find 90% of the - exact same wording - in talks he gave more than 10 years ago. It's always the same stuff and most of the time even in the same order, Albert Einstein's desk, building an accelerator in the garage, joking about his mother, wanting to get a one inch long equation, types of civilizations, ...<br><br><br>If a guy who can't even rewrite his script to at least sound fresh and uses the same anecdotes and jokes for over a decade is part of the "upper echelon of highly intellectual individuals" then I feel bad for this species.<br><br><br>He isn't unintelligent by any means but he isn't part of the "upper echelon" either, he's a popularizer just like Neil deGrasse Tyson. They're obviously both successful at what they're doing but what they're doing isn't science, it's trying to get more people into science.,(reply>), @Pearl Lee they just don't belong together, tyson is clearly not that intelligent, I don't know about kaku but there's clearly a lot of showmanship going on there as well.,(reply>), @naught i get what u mean. It's just that these are astro physicists wherein calculations are based on theoritical assumptions like for string theory which has really no practical applications just based on pure mathematics. String theory for me is very interesting.,(reply>), @Pearl Lee That's the thing, they don't have any legitimate work. They are pop-sci authors, their job is to make science seem hype to the general public. It's a valuable job in some sense but definitely not an intellectual demanding one. <br>Tom Mueller and Jim Keller are legit though, very talented engineers.