Comment on NASA is about to make its most important safety decision in nearly a generation

• Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Don’t care. He built the company, he’s the face of it. People hate the company and live in a dreamland where it’s failing because they want what Elon owns to be shit.

  It isn’t and they are wrong because they can’t see past their bias.

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  • Hacksaw@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Space x doesn’t work thanks to Musk. It works DESPITE him, and it requires careful management.

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    • Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is all irrelevant to the point I was making which is about people thinking Spacex is a terrible company due to bias.

      No more. No less.

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    • Usernamealreadyinuse@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Good story

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  • vanontom@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, Musk has made people hate anything he’s involved in, or that enriches him. It’s only natural; Actions have consequences. He’s a severely mentally ill billionaire, increasingly detached from reality. And now his politics and disinformation are a danger to millions of people. If SpaceX or Tesla wants to feel the love, they know what to do. Until then, I can only assume they accept the consequences.

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    • Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not sure how peoples delusions are a logical outcome.

      If I don’t like America that doesn’t mean it suddenly isn’t the richest country in the world just because I don’t like it.

      People really need to understand their bias, wanting SpaceX to be shit doesn’t make it so. That’s what we are talking about. Nothing else. SpaceX rockets aren’t powered on feels.

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      • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You keep bringing up people wanting spacex to be shit but I don’t think that’s a prevailing sentiment

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  • vinyl@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    From what I see Gwynne Shotwell is the one that’s really doing the heavy lifting in the company.

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    • Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Seriously what is going on here?

      Okay? If that is or isn’t correct what did I say that was wrong?

      Are you saying. People think Spacex is a failing company (when it isn’t) because of Shotwell?

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They’re just adding context calm down you have a real victim complex going on and it’s boring.

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      • vinyl@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I haven’t said anything about it being a failing company, I’m just introducing some much needed information because of how much glazing I’ve noticed.

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  • SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lol you were downvoted, fuck these people. They’re children.

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• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Seems like he’s more involved with starship now than falcon or dragon.

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  • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Which is why my expectations have lowered. “Hey can we build a rocket out of steel and power it with natural gas?” “We’d have to give engineers a raise or they’ll probably quit.”

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    • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’d hope they’re paying them more, since they’re working very long hours. But I do think starship is likely to do well, they’ve crossed some huge barriers to cheap reusability.

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      • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        At what point does cheapness outweigh reliability? It was good to keep wasteful and incompetent military contractors on their toes, but that’s going to have diminishing returns, eventually.

        Elon’s vision is spaceflight cheap enough for extremely wealthy consumers to frequent, any further in that direction and SpaceX maybe might no longer benefit the general public.

        We’ll see.

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