SpaceX launches are on hold after a booster rocket toppled over in flames while landing. The Federal Aviation Administration grounded the company's Falcon 9 rockets and ordered an investigation following Wednesday's accident off the Florida coast.
I mean that was a one-off prototype and tiny. as far as I can tell it carried no payload, and even if it had been completed, would have had a payload like 1/8th of the very first falcon 9, which has since increased, and frankly is more impressive as a layperson considering its proportions. I get that we hate musk here but bringing that to fruition is a big accomplishment of all the workers involved
Landing vertically is the problem, size is just a question of scope. It was a testbed. The project got shitcanned because of lack of funding, if the same amount of money had been dumped into it as into Spacex then vertical landing rockets would have been in production much earlier. All Musk has done is be the conduit through which money flows.
Nobody here is giving any credit to Musk. Saying “hey this is a nice building, the engineers and architects and builders really did a good job”, is not giving any credit to my landlord, we all know he’s just a guy with money. Check your reading comprehension. We all hate Musk, he’s up there with the worst of the worst, I get it
Yes, this probably could have been done much earlier, and if it was we’d say the same things about the engineers and crew that brought that hypothetical project over the finish line. It’s cool to see things progress
edit: also I said proportions not size. Tall shit wants to fall over more than short stubby wide shit
Pretty sure I wasn’t shitting on anybody but Elon. The workers at Spacex have done good work, but it’s not some earth shattering change, it’s just a progression of already existing technology. They didn’t invent self-landing rockets, and at this point people can make self-landing R/C rockets with off-the-shelf hardware.
We disagree, instead of acknowledging that they went directly for the reddit-tier “check your reading comprehension”, which is extremely hostile so they got the pigpoopballs. I also blocked them because I don’t want reddit hostility on my communist website, so it’s a nice zero conflict result where I will no longer need to interact with them and vice versa.
If getting ppb is too hostile for you, I dunno what to tell ya.
I get that I was a little hostile and probably would have chosen a slightly different phrase if I were writing that comment again, but we literally weren’t disagreeing, I was just getting yelled past!
I mean that was a one-off prototype and tiny. as far as I can tell it carried no payload, and even if it had been completed, would have had a payload like 1/8th of the very first falcon 9, which has since increased, and frankly is more impressive as a layperson considering its proportions. I get that we hate musk here but bringing that to fruition is a big accomplishment of all the workers involved
Landing vertically is the problem, size is just a question of scope. It was a testbed. The project got shitcanned because of lack of funding, if the same amount of money had been dumped into it as into Spacex then vertical landing rockets would have been in production much earlier. All Musk has done is be the conduit through which money flows.
Nobody here is giving any credit to Musk. Saying “hey this is a nice building, the engineers and architects and builders really did a good job”, is not giving any credit to my landlord, we all know he’s just a guy with money. Check your reading comprehension. We all hate Musk, he’s up there with the worst of the worst, I get it
Yes, this probably could have been done much earlier, and if it was we’d say the same things about the engineers and crew that brought that hypothetical project over the finish line. It’s cool to see things progress
edit: also I said proportions not size. Tall shit wants to fall over more than short stubby wide shit
Don’t shit on talented workers because they have to work for an asshole.
Pretty sure I wasn’t shitting on anybody but Elon. The workers at Spacex have done good work, but it’s not some earth shattering change, it’s just a progression of already existing technology. They didn’t invent self-landing rockets, and at this point people can make self-landing R/C rockets with off-the-shelf hardware.
This is needlessly hostile
We disagree, instead of acknowledging that they went directly for the reddit-tier “check your reading comprehension”, which is extremely hostile so they got the pigpoopballs. I also blocked them because I don’t want reddit hostility on my communist website, so it’s a nice zero conflict result where I will no longer need to interact with them and vice versa.
If getting ppb is too hostile for you, I dunno what to tell ya.
im getting 10x more reddit particles from you than @Chronicon@hexbear.net so i guess thanks for the advice re: block button
lol how is this thread still going
I get that I was a little hostile and probably would have chosen a slightly different phrase if I were writing that comment again, but we literally weren’t disagreeing, I was just getting yelled past!
Absolutely. But the engineers that worked on that project and the engineers that work on the falcon 9 both deserve our praise.
The workers at spacex have done some amazing things despite all the hurdles in their way.
size is absolutely not just a question of scope. there are qualitative differences that emerge from the accumulation of quantative change.