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Easiest newsday in ages : -Billionaire entrepreneur news? Check. -Biggest rocket ever news? Check. -Explosion that makes Michael Bay seem like an amateur? Ch
by prox 4y ago
Easiest newsday in ages :
-Billionaire entrepreneur news? Check.
-Biggest rocket ever news? Check.
-Explosion that makes Michael Bay seem like an amateur? Check.
-Environmental disaster news? Check.
The list could probably go on for a while.
- hef19898 4y agoMusk and hype, sure to get clicks. Increased 10 fold for impressive explosions. And it was an impressive explosion. I just wonder how the public perception, explicitly including on HN, would have been if SLS had blown up. I remember some people calling them out for delaying the initial launch.
- prox 4y agoRight now, I love seeing two options. Even if NASA cost a gazillion more dollars, we have two mechanics at work : cathedral building (NASA) and Bazaar building (Iterate quick, learn of mistakes) Personally I think the budget of NASA is inconsequential to say the defense budget. Not sure what the general HN vibe is, but probably mostly leaning towards “waste of my tax dollars / inefficient”
- XorNot 4y agoProblem with SLS is politics changed design decisions. There shouldn't be solid fuel boosters on it at all, but NASA was ordered to put them in.
- boppo1 4y agoWhy?
- the_mungler 4y agoI don't know exactly in this case, but congressmen have always been making NASA rockets more expensive. They often made it so that at least a part of the rockets were built in their respective states, making things more expensive than needed.