• Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    3 days ago

    Imagine what these engineers could achieve without shareholders and adult trust fund babies fucking them up.

    I guarantee you they would have achieved this decades ago if it were the Soviet Union.

    They got a man in space in the 50s ffs

    • bumpusoot [any]
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      3 days ago

      100%. Reusable rockets in this fashion were even envisioned and designed by NASA many decades ago, they just never had the funding to do it.

  • bumpusoot [any]
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    3 days ago

    I just can't enjoy this. I recognise it's a technological feat, but giving an ounce of positive praise to these first steps to privatized solar-system destroying shit just hurts. Society would be better off if it had exploded.

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    3 days ago

    Watch my-hero take all the credit for this and take a massive dump on the real brains of the outfit, the engineers and planners.