• MTK@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    Lol, the US is currently contracting SpaceX, best known for making really cool, futuristic and expensive bombs.

    By fast-track do they mean 500 years instead of 1000?

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      15 days ago

      I feel that’s not fair to some of the engineers at SpaceX. A prior head of NASA is quoted multiple times saying reusable first stages would be impossible, only 5-10 years before SpaceX landed 2 falcon heavy first stages simultaneously. Space is hard. A lot of test and production space vehicles do explode. Several of the challenger missions for example. Clearly Elon is a rube, but that doesn’t imply everyone under him is… So maybe just try to make your point without disrespecting and disregarding the work of some of the brightest engineers on the planet?

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        15 days ago

        It is hard, yet the space shuttle program did just fine and didn’t burn 3 billion dollars of tax payer money for spacex to say “well, it got off the launch pad before exploding, success!”

        No hate to the engineers there, i’m sure any good they do is overshadowed by the nazi drug addict that employees them.

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      15 days ago

      Oh come on, stop bashing SpaceX. They’ve been quite successful at roasting a banana over the Indian ocean, how many companies can make that claim?