• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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        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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          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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            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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              3 months ago

              You don’t think starship will be able to be reliable? I think they’ll get falcon 9 like reliability performance at least, and they’re aiming for a lot better.

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      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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        3 months ago

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

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        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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          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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            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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              3 months ago

              I have definitely seen that. You see it more on the tests of Starship. Even when it is successful and goes better than expected. Because it blows up a lot of people are laughing at how bad the company is.

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        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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          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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            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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                You don’t seem to understand how spaceX works, so your assertions ignore those internals and paint the wrong picture.