Entitled techbros when the world doesn’t bow down to them

Maybe I should go back to my FAA job just to do what I can to make it take even longer a-little-trolling

  • dumpster_dove [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Looking forward to their first manned flight imploding due to having an expired carbon fiber hull that they got for cheap from Boeing

    • VILenin [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      “Umm sweaty that was actually a major success. God emperor Elon who personally designs everything collected so much valuable data from the unplanned rapid disassembly!”

  • davel [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    His review of the USA: Still not the monkey’s paw libertarian utopia I wished for ★☆☆☆☆

    • WayeeCool [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      I'd be all for just letting them blow themselves and their fancy rockets up but the FAA is right to be spooked after the flight termination charges malfunctioned during the first Starship launch. Orbital rockets and intercontinental ballistic missiles are the same thing, with Starship being the biggest ever built. Was more than a little terrifying to see that rocket first lose control then have it's self destruct fail to immediately activate. Major fuck up by SpaceX that is requiring them to jump through a lot of hoops to gain back enough trust for the FAA to authorize a second test.

  • Ideology [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    And here I thought it was because they lost their launchpad.

  • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Ah yes, if there's one field where products don't need to be up to code and properly safety checked first, it is certainly rocket production.

  • oregoncom [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    The FAA should allow SpaceX to self certify. Elon dying in an Oceangate type accident would be hilarious.

  • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    Um....we've done this before. We've literally done this before.

    That submarine that imploded? There were safety regulations at play that normally would've prevented the event, but thanks to legal shenanigans by the company to make the dive possible you ended up having the submarine and its passengers dooming itself/themselves. I can't recall the issues specifically, but basically the company found a way around the legality by giving a different classification to the passengers than 'passenger'.

    There's a reason safety regulations exist, and it's not some silly slogan like 'to keep the people on a leash!' or whatever. We've literally done the whole 'sidestepping safety regulations' bit before, and it has consequences.

    If you want to fix 'whatever stands in the way', demand that SpaceX make their stuff work within safety regulations; people's lives literally depend on it.

  • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    The last one exploded because the engines got hit with debris caused by their refusal to build a safe launchpad. Maybe not everyone deserves to be able to operate a rocket, Ben.