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I've been wanting to hear HN's opinion on this ever since I heard about it, yet the whole topic is strangely missing from the front page. Kinda reminds me of th

I've been wanting to hear HN's opinion on this ever since I heard about it, yet the whole topic is strangely missing from the front page. Kinda reminds me of the video, as soon as it blows up they just cut the audio feed.

bontoJR 11y ago
Same here, that's why I posted the link. Anyway, I think SpaceX's engineers are extremely under pressure right now. These missions are extremely risky, everybody knows how difficult is this field and I personally believe that the amount of pressure the team is facing, it's consistently increasing the potential risk of a failure. SpaceX is a private company and, like all the other private companies in the earth, it has the goal to make money and make investors happy. Every single failure of the company is a big hit on the brand and a loss of millions and millions of dollars, this put the team under an excessive amount of pressure.
- secfirstmd 11y ago
  It's strange to explain the postive feelings that I and I'm sure many others have here about SpaceX. I mean people have been saying how great it is for a private company to do this but at the end of the day nearly every NASA launch has been built by a private company. Yet somehow SpaceX and in particular, Elon Musk, has managed to do a great job of capturing the public excitement. When I started noticing a lot of my non-tech friends are talking about space and science (thank you Brian Cox, CERN etc!) again it gives me hope for the future. Perhaps its a generation thing, many of us in our 20s never really had those electrifying moments like a moon landing. Something just makes makes people really really want to see SpaceX succeed. Though let's hope this eventually translates into real investment at government levels once again.
Arnt 11y ago
Just before the point where Elon says "gosh darn"?
simik 11y ago
There you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9793555 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9793555
halviti 11y ago
Personally, I like to think the culture here is above jumping to conclusions and armchair speculation.

bontoJR 11y ago

Same here, that's why I posted the link. Anyway, I think SpaceX's engineers are extremely under pressure right now. These missions are extremely risky, everybody knows how difficult is this field and I personally believe that the amount of pressure the team is facing, it's consistently increasing the potential risk of a failure. SpaceX is a private company and, like all the other private companies in the earth, it has the goal to make money and make investors happy. Every single failure of the company is a big hit on the brand and a loss of millions and millions of dollars, this put the team under an excessive amount of pressure.

secfirstmd 11y ago
It's strange to explain the postive feelings that I and I'm sure many others have here about SpaceX. I mean people have been saying how great it is for a private company to do this but at the end of the day nearly every NASA launch has been built by a private company. Yet somehow SpaceX and in particular, Elon Musk, has managed to do a great job of capturing the public excitement. When I started noticing a lot of my non-tech friends are talking about space and science (thank you Brian Cox, CERN etc!) again it gives me hope for the future. Perhaps its a generation thing, many of us in our 20s never really had those electrifying moments like a moon landing. Something just makes makes people really really want to see SpaceX succeed. Though let's hope this eventually translates into real investment at government levels once again.

Arnt 11y ago

Just before the point where Elon says "gosh darn"?

simik 11y ago

There you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9793555 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9793555

halviti 11y ago

Personally, I like to think the culture here is above jumping to conclusions and armchair speculation.