lol Baikonur was completed in '55(?) and is still fully operational to this day.
Musk cuts corners on his fucking bottle rocket shit palace and it gets wrecked after three years.
BuT hE hAs A pHySiCs DeGrEe!
You know what classes your average classical physics degree doesn't have? Fucking materials science courses, because that is apprently just for schmucks who deal with the actual industrial applications of technology.
Fuck this is so stupid.
He also got only a bachelors. I know that that does not give you much insight, but the idea that stuff is easy, since the material that is presented is supposed to give you an overview of the canon of physics.
So most things that are hard or unsolvable aren't really getting space. That is what the masters 2 years are for and more importantly the PhD and time afterwards.
More importantly Elon has never applied his degree professionally, what use is unused knowledge from 30 years ago
does he even have a bachelors tho? I thought he dropped out and got an honorary degree because the investors thought it looked bad
He seems to have gotten them in 1997, but it also seems that he claimed to have degrees years before that. So he is again a liar. That said he graduated cum laude, which really isn't good for physics degrees and even worse for business degrees - if you are a genius that is.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/musk-physics-degree/
https://twitter.com/capitolhunters/status/1593307541932474368?t=Qop6w9727kiJrYHwIbdzAA&s=19
I read somewhere that his physic degree might be fabricated as well
It took like two years of carefully paced dissent from me and a lot of too loud to ignore idiocy from Musk to get my coworkers to finally agree he’s a dangerous moron. So I foolishly believed they’d be receptive to these criticisms of the launch… and I was very wrong. They literally scoffed at me for caring more about safety than the future of mankind and said it’s in Texas so what wildlife is there to worry about. They acted as if my concerns were just contrarianism and basically implied that letting Musk pursue these goals and accepting reckless decision is the only way to make advancements in space exploration.
So I guess even once they accept he makes dangerous cars and runs Twitter like a vain moron they still have to have each additional myth he’s made debunked with the same level of care because libs can’t recognize patterns… (unless the NYT is making them up to justify some form of cruelty)
what fuckin reddit job do you have where people care about this guy?
Public Sector IT. They also have all the opinions you'd expect about Tiktok, China and the Ukraine war.
This is the batshit doublethink nonsense that Americans accuse North Korean, Chinese, and Russian people of.
"Actually, the stupidity of Glorious Leader actually proves he's the biggest genius ever, the rocket exploding and spraying debris everywhere was an enormous success, you're a fool if you don't worship Glorious Leader like we do."
"Well typically the next step is to ensure that we have a needle and thread on hand to suture the incision shut, but we didn't want to delay this surgery just for that"
I honestly don't think the launch could have gone worse (aside from blowing up on the pad). With the incoming delays due to the pad being fucked and the regulators going mental, any goodwill SpaceX has will disappear as they become the ones delaying the return to the moon. I think in a few years the company is going to be cut into sections and sold to the traditional aerospace companies.
The SLS was first supposed to fly in 2016 and first flew in 2022. I doubt most people could name the companies or reasons responsible for the delays
any goodwill SpaceX has will disappear as they become the ones delaying the return to the moon.
There's a very small number of people in our government who seem terrified of China beating the US back to the moon, purely from a PR standpoint (and they're all Biden's age). This new moon landing is as likely to work by 2028 as the Hyperloop, and it's all because they can't detach parasites like Musk from the project.
The space program doesn't exist to explore space, it exists to make money for the richest lizard-men on earth, and that's why whether it succeeds or not is meaningless.
I have no idea what their financials looks like but their Falcon 9 rockets are being used regularly so I don't see other aerospace companies taking them over
Going worse works have been the rockets flying off in different directions and maybe flying into a school of kids.
I saw the video, and I was literally wondering why some of the jets weren't on. I thought it was some sort of intentional thing to reduce trust.
Yeah it was much worse because :melon-musk: wasn't on board
Wait I thought the launch succeeded, now folks are saying it blew up?
The rocket successfully got off the ground. In doing so it disabled a bunch of its own engines and blew the launchpad to smithereens, with the debris additionally damaging the site's fuel bunkers. The rocket then underwent rapid unplanned disassembly when it failed to correctly separate stages and exploded
For all the talk of the launch as a success because of all the "data" they retrieved. They didn't get any of the valuable stuff. Like yes, rocketry is complex and test flights often fail (look at all new rockets that failed in like the last year), but the important data for this flight was the engine performance, booster landing performance, and the starship reentry.
Because of the negligence w.r.t. the launchpad, the engine data is tainted and the mission never even reached the stage needed for the other portions.
It reminds me of the amnesty given to Shiro Ishii of Unit 731 fame. The USA granted it to him in exchange for the "data" from his "research."
I presume the journals were like "welp we vivisected a live Chinese POW and they died."
Great job doing science, guys!
The American news media somehow wrote it up like a success.
:parenti-hands:
well, if corporate media don't tell us small brains that all this is "good, actually", people would just assume something went wrong.
turns out when shit explodes violently, it's a big win for whatever it was you were doing.
this is going to revolutionize the way I approach my professional life.
I assumed with the lack of "I told u so" threads the launch somehow succeeded against all odds and that hexbear got owned so everyone stopped talking it
dam mfs a shocked-pikachu-face would've at least been a nice heads up lmao
You had to be here within 2-12 hours of the launch happening there were like 6 or 7 different threads all at once.
What probably happened for you is that because everyone was spread over different threads instead of one single thread the voting and discussion power bumping them in the algo was diluted so the threads dropped before you saw them.
Yeah I was asleep then I went to work, I was saving checking into hexbear as a special treat during lunch to see what happened, but when I did I didn't even see a single thread about the launch
So I was like "dam we got owned lmao" and then promptly forgot about it
You can literally see huge chunks flying up as it lifts off in the video.
Knew it
The whole it was a success becuase it made it past the tower bs.
