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It's passive-aggressive. A bit like deleting one's facebook profile I guess.
by kemiller 9y ago
It's passive-aggressive. A bit like deleting one's facebook profile I guess.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoA bit of a different though. Elon did not intentionally destroy the Falcon 9 in question, and SpaceX worked very hard to determine what caused the issue and rectify it for future flights. Zuckerberg knew for years what was going on with user data, and gave zero f*s until they were caught. Substantially easier to throw shade (passive aggressively even) from the moral high ground.
- CodeCube 9y agoinb4 the conspiracy theories that the rocket blowing up was to set back a competitor to StarLink
- SmellyGeekBoy 9y agoI'm afraid that ship has already sailed...
- koheripbal 9y agoElon cares tremendously about bad press. He's specifically banned all reporters from filming launch or recovery attempts in case there are failures. You'll notice that there are NO social media posts whenever there's a accident (of which there have been many). Zuck drawing attention to it must have really pissed Elon off.
- toss1 9y agoUm, except when Elon posts video compilations of their failures... (seems to me they're pretty open) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2PWKdQzuU8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2PWKdQzuU8
- jccooper 9y agoThey do that in a carefully controlled way, well after the event is too cold for the news cycle. And even then, some events that are too dicey-looking are never seen. Mark, this is not a criticism. Given the way the media handles such things (i.e. sensationally and with minimal or just plain wrong context) it's really for the best.
- greglindahl 9y agoWhat? The general public films all SpaceX launches and all landings on land, not to mention reporters.
- larkeith 9y agoSource? Anecdotally speaking, it seems that there's been about as much coverage for each failed launch as there has been for each successful one.
- jpindar 9y ago>NO social media posts whenever there's a accident Sometimes there are - in fact its a running joke that he calls them "rapid unscheduled disassemblies" (or something like that).
- hutzlibu 9y agoWell, no. Doing so openly and not only your own, but also publicly from your companys ... is much more agressive. So if he would have done it, only because of that statement, I would say clearly overreaction. But deleting Facebook because it is Facebook ... makes still sense.
- rhizome 9y agoHow is deleting a profile on a website "passive aggressive?"
- plandis 9y agoI think you’d at least passive aggressively be mad too if a moving company blew up the truck with your stuff on it, accidentally or not.
- henriquemaia 9y agoIf you only had that furniture, yes; if you had no money left to replace it, definitely. Not when you have enough wealth to replace it. Shit happens, and getting furniture into space is an intrinsic risky affair.
- Declanomous 9y agoPlus a satellite doesn't have intrinsic value. If a moving truck lost all my stuff I didn't intrinsically value I'd just contact my insurance company and buy a new one. Obviously it takes time to build a satellite, but it's not like it was personal.
- asdsa5325 9y agoAre you seriously comparing a 85M satellite's destruction to deleting a Facebook page?