What an utter piece of shit.

  • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I know it’s an anathema to most in the US but the government needs to step up and take Starlink and Space X off Musk for a fair price. He’s way too unstable to be trusted with tech that important.

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      The older I get the more socialist I am. Yeah, take it away from his dumb ass, but don’t keep it ffs. Make it employee owned. Make every business employee owned.

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        Make it a Co-op with government oversight and maybe security. Its too stategically important to be allowed market level independence.

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      This is how I feel about Starship. Amazing progress is being made and he’s going to fuck it all up before it ever has a real mission. It’s sad. World’s first fully reusable launch vehicle capable of building real shit in space like colonies and infrastructure and it had to be him that did it.

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          But he says big words about rockets on Twitter. That means he’s an engineer, right?

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          What I meant was it had to be him that became the figurehead. I want someone with the drive and passion for space exploration, not someone with the passion for profit. A humble engineer or scientist who exists only to expand their knowledge and with plenty of fascination about the universe, not this dollar store Tony Stark wannabe narcissistic blowhard.

          I guess I’m shouting at clouds though, because that’s how the system is set up. People don’t start companies because they want to do something awesome. They start them to make money.

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          As much as I hate Musk, I doubt something that ambitious would be tried without him or someone like him. Same with starting a fully EV car company when everyone thought we were just but ready for it. Yes the engineers are the ones who do the work, but it takes someone willing to risk a lot of money, and the ability to bring in more money, to make that stuff happen.

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              He bought a small dying company and turned it into the most valuable one they ever existed. He made the Tesla we know today.

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            He didnt start a fully EV car company, HE BOUGHT ONE.

            Quit holding people on high regard based on their cult of personality.

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              He made the Tesla we know today, the Tesla we know today would not have existed without Musk, it likely would have died a small silicon valley startup that nobody had ever heard of.

              Just because I hate him doesn’t mean I won’t give him credit for doing what he did.

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        I’m pretty sure someone at Tesla or SpaceX put the Twitter idea in his head so he would fuck off and meddle with something else and let them do their actual work instead of dealing with his stupidity, micromanaging and narcissism.

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      I would love a SpaceX without Elon.

      But the thing that made SpaceX what it is now is largely that it is not a government entity.

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      “How am I in this war?” Musk asked Isaacson. “Starlink was not meant to be involved in wars. It was so people can watch Netflix and chill and get online for school and do good peaceful things, not drone strikes.”

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      Elon can’t be trusted with it, but NASA would just stall all progress on it for the next fifty years

      All the downvoters should take a good close look at the cockup that is the SLS program

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        NASA just contracts everything out. I think NASA would be much different if they had something like SpaceX (and was funded properly).

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          NASA just contracts everything out. I think NASA would be much different if they had something like SpaceX (and was funded properly).

          NASA gets so much funding for the SLS, which is so expensive, that NASA itself is saying it’s throwing money away. It’s US Congress routing tax payer funding to disastrously inefficient contractors, not to have an actually functional space program.

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      It’s his company that he built from the ground up, and the government doesn’t know what to do with stuff like satellites, that is best left to the free market