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Jayarava

@rodhilton TBF he revolutionised the trip to low-earth orbit with his cheap/reusable rockets.

25 Dec 2022 at 10:29 | Wall-to-wall | Open on nerdculture.de
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sbi
Jayarava

@sbi @rodhilton Sure, SpaceX is in production mode. Now. 🙄

25 Dec 2022 at 11:08 | Open on nerdculture.de
sbi

@jayarava @rodhilton Alright. Let's talk again once you, too, got disinfected.

25 Dec 2022 at 11:17 | Open on toot.berlin
Jayarava

@sbi @rodhilton Nope. I'm not a fan of Musk, especially the new openly fascist Musk. nerdculture.de/@jayarava/10942

No. *I'm a fan of rocketry*. And, like it or not, SpaceX changed rocketry for the better.

It is ironic that the autistic guy who sees the world in black&white terms, to his detriment and likely downfall, is now being criticised by neurotypicals solely in black&white terms.

We can do better.

25 Dec 2022 at 11:25 | Open on nerdculture.de
jastram

@jayarava @sbi @rodhilton #SpaceX definitely is visionary, so I don't like the initial blanket statement. The other day, I heard an interesting statement that reflects it well, I think: "With SpaceX and Tesla, Elon #Musk is an Asshole with a Vision. With Twitter, he's just an Asshole".

25 Dec 2022 at 13:38 | Open on mastodon.world
sbi

@jastram @jayarava @rodhilton That initial "blanket statement" being this here?

"I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius."

(Please leave me out of your mentions while you keep praising his genius.)

25 Dec 2022 at 16:22 | Open on toot.berlin
Christopher

@jayarava @rodhilton His engineers did that. He just hyped himself and drummed up finding.

25 Dec 2022 at 14:56 | Open on tenforward.social
infinite_loopy

@jayarava @rodhilton There was no revolution. NASA chose to scrap the Space Shuttle program and contracted SpaceX as their preferred carrier.

SpaceX was already doing the work, but without a Space Shuttle program and a pressing need for low-earth orbit missions, someone needed to fill that vacuum (so to speak).

There was absolutely nothing musk did to facilitate this, he was -- once again -- in the right place at the right time to take the credit for it.

25 Dec 2022 at 17:09 | Open on noc.social
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