This is what happens when you cut regulations and fire the people who oversee quality and safety over stupidity and greed.
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I hope a space X employee is making these fail on purpose and keeps doing it
The hidden cost of 60-hour work weeks.
Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. It exercised all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people. Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth.
Oh, fuck me...
:p If they were the beasts, the “godly” would line up to take the mark.
American evangelicals are fucking ushering him in. I'm not religious, but if it's all actually real, at least they will burn in hell.
The FAA was investigating SpaceX from the last explosion and grounded all spacex flight until after an investigation. Then, the nazi-in-chief fired the FAA leader to get his way.
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Thanks to this idiot being the ceo of the company people can finally realize how much of a waste this business is
SpaceX can still pivot to a fireworks company and let decades old soviet rockets take people to the ISS. I'm sure that DOGE will cut the wasteful government grants this company gets.
To be fair, only their crazy concept rocket keeps falling tests. The actual in use rockets have literally the best success/safety rate in history. Just a shame a Nazi owns the company.
Fair enough. The engineering is pretty impressive. It would be even more impressive if it was owned by the public rather than a MEGAlomaniac high on ketamine
Move fast, break things, right?
Hope he's on the next flight
Looking forward to SpaceX fans continuing to talk about how much SpaceX is insulated from musk's stupidity thanks to Shotwell.
The lady who thought you could cram a thousand people into a starship and do passenger ICBM launches?
The lady who was convinced this would be allowed by any government, anywhere in the world? A giant death tube with a thousand people hurtling towards a city at near orbital speeds, with the pinky promise that their engines will relight being the only things saving your city from ruin every day.
She’s a fucking idiot too.
It pisses me off that I'm rooting against Space X, a company with an unarguably cool mission and product. Fuck Musk.
He will just make you a slave there, dont buy into this bullshit
Whats cool about mining colonies on other planets? They will probably send ~~slaves~~ prisoners there.
Elon Musk watched The Expanse, looked at the Belters, and thought to himself, "Yes, this is the ideal human living condition."
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Fuck that fucker. I hope he drops dead and SpaceX lives on.
There is NOTHING cool about SpaceX and there never was.
Musk claimed it was "Plan B" but there is no fucking Plan B, if we destroy the earth that is it!!
Musk and Trump are the idiots in Don't look up! And the movie nailed it!
The coolest thing about Space X is that it knocked about 100 million dollars off the cost of putting a satellite in orbit. More, if you consider the possibility of multiple small satellites sharing a launch to a similar orbit.
This enabled many, many small research companies to begin developing satellites for Earth and atmospheric imaging which is advancing our ability to collect precise data about things like greenhouse gas emissions.
Fuck Musk, absolutely, but a lower barrier to entry to putting things in space absolutely has utility.
Is that something Musk claims? Because you know Musk is full of shit right?
I wouldn't be surprised if he compares to the space shuttle, which was always infamous for being extremely expensive.
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Going to space under capitalism makes no sense.
Why should space exploration need or want a profit motive?
Create an anarcho-communist society where we firstly house, feed, and educate everyone. Explore space for the pure purpose of exploration in conditions where we can all collaborate without the need of competition and destruction.
I have a family member that works as an engineer building parts for various spacecraft. They get excited about the possibility of finding a renewable energy source and just in general what science can gain and learn from space that will make life better on earth.
Do with that what you will, I'm neutral, I'm just providing a different perspective that I think is relevant.
I think that a lot of rank-and-file professional scientists share that motivation. I know that deep down I am still a wide eyed child who got into science for those very reasons.
I find that trait less common once you get to director/general manager type roles. There’s a selection process that favors less idealistic (aka sociopathic) mindsets.
I personally think the innovation we need desperately is to figure out how to stop putting machiavelian monsters into positions of power.
Enforcing anti-trust laws is low-hanging fruit. Then, Article 5 the Constitution to explicitly require civil law (law by legislation) over common law (law by precedent); it's slower, but France and Germany get by.
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Musk "speeding up" the program. Lol.
Maybe the internal GPS was looking for the Gulf of Mexico and just gave up?
