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Does that justify blatant lies?

• tim333 2y ago
  I'm worried spacex will end up a bit like Tesla, largely abandoned for Musk to go off on some political weirdness.
  • scryers_bloom 2y ago
    Doubt it. Musk only owns something like ~15% of Tesla, and owns about 50% of spacex. He knows tesla is overvalued immensely and wants to deeply integrate himself with government to make sure spacex becomes the de facto space org. for the United States (possibly).
• trompetenaccoun 2y ago
  What "blatant lies" though? The question hasn't really been answered. The user wrote: >Exploiting and lying about the monumental efforts of a pioneering industry for cheap political points I don't know what this means. When someone tells a blatant lie, it would be easy to quote them for a start. What 'monumental effort' was lied about? If it's about Boeing then I have to say I too think the company is doing a terrible job and if anyone is lying about the effort it's them, there have been numerous whistleblowers who came out and talked about the coverups at Boeing.
  • n4r9 2y ago
    I didn't personally use the word "blatant", but when I said "lying" I was referring to claims that: * The Biden administration either forgot about or deliberately chose to leave astronauts in space for political reasons. * Trump's request accelerated the decision to bring the astronauts home. "Monumental efforts" was a more general comment about the space industry, including the activities of both NASA and SpaceX. Bringing astronauts home from space when equipment has gone faulty is a challenge I do not envy whatsoever. For Trump to claim credit in the venture is bordering on obscene.