Reusable rockets save milions
My dude still waiting for trickle down economics to kick in
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Man that is not the point here.. The point is that your uni now can send stuff to orbit when 10 years ago it was economically prohibitted. Elon can fuck off but spacex IMO is a net positive to humanity.
The less can be sent into orbit, the better. We have enough trash in orbit as it is. No need to clutter it up any further.
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Yeah, it hasn't been cheaper, prices are pretty much the same and if it weren't for the US government funding them, SpaceX would have been bankrupt
Wait wait you are telling me Musk didn't pull himself by his boots straps and actually is the biggest welfare queen there is? Nooo, I can't believe it...
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I don't get this argument. The US government has invested into a tech development. Which means that spacex seemed to have a good base to pull that off. I didn't see a line of other companies doing anywhere near that capability.
Also, everyone calls for government to take lead in doing stuff for the betterment of humanity, but the second that happened, everyone loses their minds. Make up your mind, are we ok with government doing stuff or not?
Well, you seem to think the public is a monolith and not a bunch of squabbling tribes.
The people who understand shit want progress and understand the government (when not held back) can make wonderful things happen.
Then you have the people who can't see benefit for anything past the end of their nose arguing to turn the clocks back to 1922 because grandpappy said it was better.
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The only trickle-down I believe in is that half that boy trickled down his mamas leg.
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Smoking crack from an n64 trident might just give me the edge I'm looking for.
God I mean just the crack alone is bad but now you wanna smoke through old Nintendo plastic
I can feel the cancer in my dome forming as we speak
the nintendium is coursing through me
Nintendoneitis
I’m 99% sure this is how they came up with Majoras Mask
If my shadowrun players had their characters do this or something similar, I don't think I could say no to them regaining their edge points lol
Do you think your high will look pixelated?
"his own car" more like "the car he promissed to the real tesla founder and wanted to say FU to"
Interesting, where did you hear this?
Finally, the suit alleges that Tesla had guaranteed Eberhard the second Roadster ever produced after Musk insisted he get the first, but then failed to provide that car.
Don't see anything about that being the same car launched into space in that article specifically, I'm still looking though.
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I think Musk is a hack and a conman, but what the fuck is with lefty twitter accounts that think behaving like a completely braindead troll online will sway anyone? Hexbears on lemmy have the same style of moronic shit slinging.
People have given up on actually swaying people, as it’s been seen that the most entrenched opinions never ever ever change their stance about anything, regardless of evidence shown.
The most enjoyable thing to do thus is openly mock them, making their entrenched lives miserable.
The most enjoyable thing to do thus is openly mock them, making their entrenched lives miserable.
You are overrestimating the effect this sort of discourse has on people, they are mildly annoyimg at best, and the "mockery" only has the effect of making them look ridiculous.
Yeah, I don't think you're the target audience, chief.
And you are ignoring the appeal of an obvious joke that's designed to be annoying to liberals/centrists and whatever. But also just be funny to everyone else. This sub is memes the twitter account is obvious ragebait/ shit posting just from the name alone...
The key here is "enjoyable" not "making their lives miserable" it doesn't matter whether anyone actually suffers or any change is enacted, it's a joke it's primary purpose is to be funny. It's secondary or tertiary purpose might be propaganda or education or whatever, it's still mostly just funny, for people that get it at least.
The joke here is on some level obviously includes the absurdity of arguments constructed against a nonsense critique trying to defend a system that the people arguing don't even really realize the joke is critiquing. Which is why the account tries to amp up the absurdity with their (non) dismissal of the pointles arguments.
To pull this whole joke into a more centrist perspective it's like posting whatever inclusive or "woke" idea on /pol/ and just typing nonsense as the replies to the highly structured but deeply misunderstanding shit that /pol/ will dream up on that given day. And having a great laugh about it.
Just that we exchange /Pol/ for twitter which is now apparently partially musk dickridig and as such a conservative late stage capitalist realist echo chamber. And we laugh at the stupid defenses they spin up for a non attack on their chosen saviour. Where the point of the joke is so obviously not understood by the people replying, but obviously understood by people voting here.
And probably only partially understood by you, and or me, but that's something we don't need to get into, because if we do, we are again missing the point of the joke.
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Yeah it's weird, I think a lot of people use being left wing as an excuse to give up on trying to be a decent person in any way, like 'I'm on the right side of history therefore anything I do us automatically good and right and heroic' it's annoying.
I guess the bright side is that there's a lot of idiots in the world and if they're going to vote progressive left as their excuse to be an idiot that's better than nothing.
Also I hate 'let's do a lefty podcast, it'll be 90% dick and cum jokes, 10% other juvenile shit and occasionally we'll mention something that happened in politics if we can get a dick joke out of it'
Melting plastic while trying to smoke drugs only makes you smoke the plastics. Totally not speaking from experience.
Is there a stoner engineering community yet?
I’m sure there’s several on different instances
I don't entirely get what's going on in the comments here but I just love how one responder pointed out how SpaceX is not the same as Tesla when no one prior had mentioned either.
Every online discussion has the potential of becoming the outlet for one commenter to articulate his personal retort to a fictional argument constructed of a thousand previous or inexistent arguments.
Technically they have, because the implication of the original post is that because Musk burned money sending his car to space, he had to fire 10% of Tesla workers.
The ballast could just as easily have been university student design team projects and he would have been doing a ton of good for the world, but instead he decided to waste all that fuel and a whole car for publicity. "Efficiency".
On the first flight of SpaceX's Falcon 1 rocket, a university satellite was the payload. Not only did the launch fail in just the first few seconds, but the payload crashed back. Landing in the shipping container it arrived in. First launches of rockets do not have good track records. Risking a silly car was arguably more fun than the equally useless "mass simulators" used on most first launches. If it were my satellite, I would not have wanted it on the first Falcon Heavy launch.
To give an otherwise unfunded project the chance to go to space, however slim, is worth far more than a tesla roadster with an astronaut mannequin, and costs far less. What was their satellite design going to do on earth?
Plus if it blows up, you could still say your satellite blew up on launch. Not the worst story there is to tell.
There isn't any way we could find a million high school students to donate experiments or golden records. What we need is to use government investment to shoot shameless product placement for my other company into space and live stream pictures of it.
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