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Man I hope Musk names one of the Starships Enterprise.

• andromaton 2y ago
  Bet he will
  • rbanffy 2y ago
    He doesn't give many Star Trek vibes though. Space Socialism isn't really his thing. What he could do (and Blue Danube yesterday gave me the idea) is to buy the PanAm brand and do a rebrand of the crew services at least to the ISS.
    • brookst 2y ago
      I could definitely see Musk getting into Make Pan American Great Again.
      • rbanffy 2y ago
        Please don't ruin it ;-)
        • ghaff 2y ago
          The Pan Am brand has passed through at least one or two low-cost regional airlines.
          • rbanffy 2y ago
            Yeah, but we don’t need a Make PanAm Great Again thing.
        • brookst 2y ago
          Sorry, we all have to stick to what we’re good at.
    • AlgorithmicTime 2y ago
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    • failbuffer 2y ago
      The SpaceX drone ships are named after spacecraft from The Culture series by Iain Bank. The Culture is very much a socialist post-scarcity civilization where intelligent machines do all the work and most people apparently just party or do passion projects. Like Star Trek, most of the action occurs where this civilization comes in contact with its barbaric neighbors. Unlike Star Trek, The Culture is very keen on interventionism and many of its characters volunteer for these dangerous foreign assignments because of their ennui/restlessness with their utopian society. Musk's private wealth management firm, Excession LLC, is also based on the series.