- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
SpaceX’s Starship rocket system reached several milestones in its second test flight before the rocket booster and spacecraft exploded over the Gulf of Mexico.
SpaceX’s Starship rocket system reached several milestones in its second test flight before the rocket booster and spacecraft exploded over the Gulf of Mexico.
I really wish they’d stop putting Musk’s name on things like this. He didn’t design the engines, he didn’t plan the flight path, he did nothing but throw a bunch of money at a company because he’s obsessed with Mars.
He does force them to cut corners for the sake of more headlines though
Blame the poster. The CNN article itself doesn’t have Musk in the headline and barely mentions him at all (there is one quote near the end).
EDIT
Or maybe don’t blame the poster. From the URL and web archives, it appears CNN may have changed the title.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/18/world/elon-musk-spacex-starship-launch-scn/index.html
Perhaps it’s time for titles that match the article headlines as a matter of policy here?
Actually, I just realized the poster may have used the original CNN title.
That is precisely what happened. I use the title that gets pulled when you paste in a URL.
That is already the rule. CNN changed the headline after I posted it.
what? didn’t he start SpaceX because Russia WOULDN’T take his money?
He tried to buy Russian decommissioned ICBMs but the DoJ wouldn’t let him.
IIRC, they wouldn’t take his money because he misunderstood the price they wanted, tried to bargain it down and lowball them, and ended up pissing them off so much they doubled the price.
He did insist they slap an X on it tho. Thats gotta be worth something, right.
Sadly, Thats how capitalism work hence they keep using Musk’s name. Anyone with money is valuable in our economy.
This just false. Sure, he did not do everything alone but he has a huge hand in engineering concepts and design decisions. Lots of hate and complete misunderstanding how spaceship, spaceX and Musk work in this thread.
When Elon still wrote code it was so bad they had to scrap most of it.
And the one they did use ended up into a fridge’s firmware.
The dude prefers reviewing source code on paper.
Anyone who writes code knows that is not a practical way to review.
Maybe in his time he got book smart about some physics/rocket concepts. That’s the least I would expect anyway. But that doesn’t mean he really has any expertise to offer to the product.
I agree it makes no sense. A fair number of my clients are morons and about 2 or 3 times a year they want a printout of the code.
You’re wrong. Watch some videos on starship development and the history on spacex in general.
He doesn’t do shit. All of that is just him saying buzzwords he learnt from the actual engineers so he’d look smart.
Videos like what?
Several on Everyday Astronaut’s channel for instance.
I do not know that channel, can you link one of those? I would like to see what he has to say.
Not OP, but it’s really not hard to find.
https://youtu.be/t705r8ICkRw?si=4t0wMNSlWjUBClqg
Look for the three tours that Tim did with Elon
https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=everyday+astronaut+elon+musk