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SpaceX is targeting Monday, April 17 for the first flight of Starship
- jytechdevops 4y agoThis will be interesting to see. I'm sure people will tune in to see Elon both succeed or fail. LFG.
- Eduard 4y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luft-Fahrzeug-Gesellschaft https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luft-Fahrzeug-Gesellschaft
- LegitShady 4y agohttps://onxrp.com/glossary/lfg-lets-fcking-go/ https://onxrp.com/glossary/lfg-lets-fcking-go/
- jutrewag 4y agoI’m rooting for this hard, just wish I liked Elon wholeheartedly like I did a few years ago.
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- mensetmanusman 4y agoEveryone has flaws. Our system lets the powerful magnify human flaws though.
- jacobolus 4y agoEveryone has flaws, but not everyone has a clinical-level personality disorder or unethically and unlawfully abuses everyone around them, making a career of stealing from taxpayers, vendors, customers, business partners, shareholders, lenders, employees, etc. with a total lack of empathy or remorse, and then whining pathetically about what a huge victim they are.
- galacticaactual 4y ago> "Stealing from taxpayers" Give us one example.
- whamlastxmas 4y agoThey aren’t any, he’s just making up bullshit like always
- Aeolun 4y agoIt does seem to lead to great results in this instance though. Or maybe despite that.
- mensetmanusman 4y agoMany engineers I have interacted with are low empathy. It’s not legal to steal from tax payers, so that also might be an exaggeration.
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- ralfd 4y agoFunny thing is that all pales in comparison to dragging whole industries kicking and screaming into the future.
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- api 4y agoEven if you're not a fan of Elon or the other stuff he's doing, remember that this is the product of thousands of other people who have worked for SpaceX. It also incorporates the innovations of thousands more who worked for previous rocket companies and NASA over the years since we first started firing stuff into space. Elon deserves credit for getting this thing going, but it ain't a sole proprietorship. People who didn't like John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, or Werner von Braun could still enjoy watching human beings land on the moon. Humans are nuts and if we go to space it'll mean crazy humans will be in space. There will be greasy politicians, arrogant business magnates, trolls, culture wars, ... all of it ... in space...
- colordrops 4y agoWhy put him at the center of it all with your comment then? There are a literally million other things to talk about when it comes to SpaceX and space travel.
- dang 4y agoPlease let's not have another boo-vs.-yay $celebrity thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- 00F_ 4y agowhy not lock replies in such threads to being non-repliable? its not the initial comments or the replies but the giant argument chains that are the problem. or you could allow arguments but offload them to twitter spaces or another real-time platform thats well-suited to such nonsense.
- dang 4y ago> why not lock replies in such threads to being non-repliable? People would just post their replies at the top level instead.
- 00F_ 4y agofor me, not being able to harass a comment from directly below takes a lot of the visceral enjoyment out of it. but ok.
- dang 4y agoYup and being denied that enjoyment would create resentment that would convert into mischief. Basically, technical tricks for controlling discussion don't really work—that's been our experience anyhow.
- skeswa 4y agoso hype
- mensetmanusman 4y agoAn example of real hype that matters.
- ttobbaybbob 4y agoit's nice to be wholeheartedly rooting for a company and the technological progress it represents
- flandish 4y agoLet’s be honest: I’m rooting for the technological progress. The company operates like all companies - exploitation and shareholder manipulation. The progress is a nice outcome. Even if it makes the asshole owner richer. Especially because the progress should be open for any tech funded by taxpayer dollars.
- galacticaactual 4y agoLol. Ask some of the early-mid stage employees whether they were exploited given current valuations.
- easytiger 4y ago> The company operates like all companies - exploitation and shareholder manipulation I don#t suppose there is any chance you can explain what this means. Shareholder manipulation? What exploitation do you reductively observe?
- flandish 4y agoAll corps exploit. Its how capitalism treats its labor pool. Here’s a recent link to some examples. At SpaceX. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/17/former-spacex-employees-file-complaints-alleging-retaliatory-firings.html https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/17/former-spacex-employees-file... Far as shareholder manip - I mean the choice to take roi over people is the shareholders manipulating the company into allowing this behavior by its ceo and to its employees.
- easytiger 4y agoI still don't know what point you are making. What alternative do you propose?
- dang 4y agoWe've moved most comments to the related ongoing thread: The FAA has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Starship rocket - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35575298 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35575298
- spieden 4y agoIf I want to watch, is it the 2-hour countdown that starts at 7:00 a.m. Central time?
- codeulike 4y agohttps://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-test https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-... Live now, launching in 25 mins