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What exactly are the company’s ambitious goals? Send earthlings to die on Mars? Because thats whats gonna happen.
goals
Grift on government subsides launching more reliable rockets while using the BIG IDEAS Starship rocket to draw in investor money. mElon runs all his businesses like start-ups so there’s always some impractical goal he sells to keep people dumping money into his companies.
The trick all VC startups hate that they won’t tell you:
Raise interest rates so that VC actually has to be careful with spending
First company to successfully mine or bring back a mineral heavy asteroid is making Megabucks.
Presumably the same as those of the East India Company
there was food, water, and breathable atmosphere where those sailors were headed
Also a thriving civilization.
And spices.
gonna sell mars spice and it’s just a mixture of paprika and cayenne
This doesn’t make any sense. Space colonization is akin to the colonization of lichen in primary succession. You’re not taking over anyone’s home. The issues with space colonization instead include matters such as: natural preservation, workplace health and safety, child-rearing ethics, resource distribution, pollution of the night sky as well as orbits, attaining human consensus in general (something private companies by definition are incapable of doing!), etc.
I just mean in the sense that their objective is a monopoly on free land and resource extraction. This being Musk, there’s probably a belief that if he’s successful, he’ll be able to exert some form of leverage over earth governments with this monopoly that he can’t already by being a mere billionaire.
There’s probably a hard copy of Heinlein’s “Moon is a Harsh Mistress” on his bookshelf that he never actually read beyond the dust cover.
elon cannot fail, he can only be failed. Every fucked up launch is historically momentous because “he tried”. Fucking participation trophies
The mission was also as low-risk as possible, but the rocket still exploded. There was no dummy payload and far less fuel, the mission was much shorter.
The April flight lasted three minutes and got 39 km high, while this flight lasted eight minutes and got 148 km high. What do you mean the mission was shorter? Anyway, it’s always a little funny when they explode.
It was shorter than any kind of a real mission would be, mainly because of less payload/fuel. The first flight wasn’t supposed to last only 3 minutes.
Oh okay so you were comparing this to a real mission, gotcha.
I mean, considering how many rockets spacex has blown up already this isn’t really that surprising. Sometimes the fastest way to figure out how to not blow stuff up is by blowing stuff up. And if it doesn’t blow up then hey, great, on to the next thing.
That only matters if you eventually stop blowing shit up
It’ll stop. Starship is still under development, with an engine type that’s never been flown before. Their smaller rocket, Falcon 9, had many public explosions but is now the US rocket with the most launches and the best safety record.
Soyuz remains king. It will be a long time before Soyuz’s safety record is overturned.
Lmao SpaceX uses stolen German and Soviet technology and still manages to blow up their rocket. Frankly I don’t see them succeeding - the American work ethic is simply not innovative. If I had to guess, it’s probably because of the 250 years of lying and stealing that their entire culture is built upon.
Na Americans are just as innovative as any other people when freed to. But in elons death 60 hour work week slave factories all the joy and playfulness required for creativity is crushed out of you.
Yes of course. I was just pretending to be a mirror universe /r/space redditor.
Hostile work environments are so bad for productivity. But like every dumbass entitled middle manager I bet
never learned that lesson.
At this point it’s a bit silly to call it stolen technology when it’s just build on top of what people learned from the earlier pioneers.
the American work ethic is simply not innovative.
Out of all things I’ve heard Americans being called, not innovative is a first. Don’t they have like a shitload of inventions and Nobel prizes and stuff like that?
If I was the second richest man on earth and my government outsourced all it’s space tech to me I’d simply not build rockets that explode.
launching a rocket that explodes in the sky isnt that big of a deal hamas can do it whenever they want
Both of these are literally true lol.
not facts, but emphasis.…yup, let’s put people in this tech and send it out; time to just cut the red tape and not hinder progress; have the FAA do what it needs so we can make it happen.
