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Which is one of the reasons I took a double take when Elon Musk cancelled the thanksgiving weekend for SpaceX and said the company has "quite frankly, a disaste
by ralfd 5y ago
Which is one of the reasons I took a double take when Elon Musk cancelled the thanksgiving weekend for SpaceX and said the company has "quite frankly, a disaster" and a "a genuine risk of bankruptcy":
https://spaceexplored.com/2021/11/29/spacex-raptor-crisis/ https://spaceexplored.com/2021/11/29/spacex-raptor-crisis/
Of course the funny thing was that most shrugged it off as just "Elon being Elon" and discounted his statement as hyperbole.
- BrazzVuvuzela 5y agoThe green flames coming out of those engines make me think there earnestly is serious trouble with their Raptor engines. It looked like they were burning copper; an engine burning itself up is the big challenge of a full-flow cycle and doesn't bode well for re-usability. If they can't get those engines to work properly, I think Starship is bust. And if Starship is bust, I think SpaceX probably is as well.
- mst 5y agoMusk's raising of capital - and hiring of staff - depends pretty much entirely on people who're at least one of 'comfortable with extremely high risk' and 'think the goals are really really cool'. So in his specific case leaning in to his public persona is probably a net win. How much of it is deliberate versus him just actually being that much of a lunatic is of course very debatable, and my opinion is mostly "no idea, but I hope we get cool spaceships out of it anyway".