Elon Musk

also please launch out of FL so I can attend live and point and laugh

I'm pretty much for a complete stoppage and moratorium on all rocket-building, moon programs, etc, either by Musk or NASA or anyone else.

Until we figure out what the hell is going on

Until the stars fall from the sky for you and I.

If the moratorium could be global I'd endorse that. We're cluttering low-earth orbital paths and generating space junk at a breathtaking clip.

Yeah when I hear ppl talking about the massive contingency involved in exploding a small skyscraper into space I just think “sounds like a big fucking waste of time then tbh let’s stop doing it”

There's a bunch of rocket launches in California that they don't even tell us about until they're done, spy satellites probably.. I remember a few years ago there's was this really weird cloud in the evening sky that everybody noticed, and the Feds were like 'don't worry about that, why don't you mind your own beeswax anyway'

For the record, I just wanted to make a Doors joke. I don't actually agree that we should stop space exploration.

is there anything more to be gained from shortv distance manned space flight? (actual question I don't know much about it)

I think bringing back lethal space viruses and infecting all of humanity might be the last true benefit

We haven't touched the monolith yet.

that's what Elon calls his junk from what I heard

Elon already touched the monolith, that's why he can see 5 years into the future

Musk and his followers are so scientifically uncurious that they wouldn't touch the monolith at all, but just piss on it.

A hilarious way to troll them is to innocently ask "why is SpaceX's Starship designed without any crew escape mechanism or abort systems?" and try to untangle the cult-speak word salad they'll respond with.

lol sacrificing a minivan

Salute to redditor DonaldRudolpho for turning the r/spacex subreddit into a roiling mass of cope and seethe with these basic factual observations pic.twitter.com/C9PGQ5Cydl

— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) April 22, 2023

Speaking of John D Clark’s _Ignition!_, notice who blurbs the most recent printing

https://sheep.horse/2019/3/ignition_cover.jpg

I looked for a space-x thread but anyway:

The space agency is depending on Starship to land astronauts on the surface of the moon as part of its Artemis program. That first landing is tentatively scheduled for 2025, though 2026 or later is perhaps more likely.

epic sir

The checkmark on the dril account has now been removed again, and then I think it was added for a minute, then removed again. It's like a Looney Tunes cartoon but one side is some shitposter on his laptop and the other side is the richest man on the planet in corporate HQ fuming

— Wild Geerters (@steinkobbe) April 22, 2023

great success much data

BREAKING: The FAA had grounded the SpaceX Starship program pending a mishap investigation.

This will most likely take many months to complete and require an extensive remediation plan before being allowed to launch again.

— Christopher David (@Tazerface16) April 24, 2023

This is what happens to your launchpad when you think it would be funny to launch to the world's largest rocket on 4/20, instead of when it's ready.

It will probably be at least a year before the FAA will approve another Starship launch. pic.twitter.com/tXytW309a6

— Christopher David (@Tazerface16) April 21, 2023

Pshh. Guess the FAA is gonna be losing its checkmark... we'll see who cancels who, woke safety regulators..

The failure of the SpaceX launch yesterday can be directly linked to a personal decision that Elon Musk made 3 years ago to not install flame diverters on the Starship launchpad.

He overruled his own engineers on this design flaw, and admitted publicly.

It's his fault.

— Christopher David (@Tazerface16) April 21, 2023

And because of this decision, the launchpad was blasted apart and debris slammed into the engines at the bottom of the booster, damaging them.

Ultimately resulting in the spectacular cartwheels and explosion that we saw just moments later.

— Christopher David (@Tazerface16) April 21, 2023

and yet there are hundreds of weird nerds absolutely fuming into their keyboards all day today about how we're all just too stupid to appreciate his genius

extremely low qual religion

elons sock

omg I found his burner https://t.co/xDHDt2X1VV pic.twitter.com/qlfzw2DjrL

— Hurt CoPain (@SaeedDiCaprio) April 24, 2023

It’s definitely him pic.twitter.com/PGqoucEyo1

— The Flying Morgan Wallendas (@BlastArrow4) April 24, 2023

Musk responding to himself with an alt account pic.twitter.com/IgXHZttZbz

— Matt Novak (@paleofuture) April 25, 2023

I think that's actually the cringiest thing he's done yet

https://i.postimg.cc/GhbhS04T/5-B5-C08-FD-00-BB-4-BEA-B1-B2-86104-F920-ED1.jpg

Hope someone’s on the blower to child protection services

wait, if that's elon why is he paying attention to his child

imagine Lion King if Rafiki got so distracted he dropped Simba over the cliff

was it steve jobs who created this poisonous concept of the innovator as an individual with no actual tech knowledge but who makes big, bold decisions and demands unrealistic time frames etc etc? i mean that's what musk is obviously shooting for and failing dramatically, right?

neil breen perfected it

Jobs was just making phones and computers though, not things that explode or crash

The failure of the SpaceX launch yesterday can be directly linked to a personal decision that Elon Musk made 3 years ago to not install flame diverters on the Starship launchpad.

He overruled his own engineers on this design flaw, and admitted publicly.

It's his fault.

— Christopher David (@Tazerface16) April 21, 2023

why is he so brainless

feel like the business guy who dares to demand more has to go back before steve job, and tbf it kind of works but its a dangerous game, has prob killed more businesses than its made but you dont hear about them

elizabeth holmes vibes

the thing about steve jobs is he actually was a great product guy, and obvs a great salesman too, which are real skills, a little different than some over confident dumbass just being all you have half the time to do twice the work

like musk does the same shit but has no feel for product and hes also unserious about doing quality work

exactly - that's what they're all aiming for and no one else can really do it

good time to mention I was actually in a Tesla last week and while the car was impressive in terms of pure horsepower (it was so fast it made me want to throw up, actually) it also had some remarkably stupid design "features" like putting the gear shifter and wiper blade controls on the touchscreen and the turn signals on the steering wheel. the guy who bought it said even after a year he still isn't used to how counterintuitive that is. Steve Jobs I think at least understood the psychology of things that work like you expect them to

most companies that make great products arent lead by charismatic visionaries theyre just good companies but thats not as interesting to weird wannabe business guys

i think what i'm trying to say is that musk (and holmes and a bunch of others) learned the wrong lesson from jobs which is that you just have to be INTUITIVE and INNOVATIVE and DEMAND NOTHING LESS THAN PERFECTION and that you don't really have to know anything technical or practical or listen to anyone with actual technical/practical knowledge

the whole thing with electric cars being extremely fast and heavy is not great its unsafe

free speech

Somebody at Twitter decided to delete my tweet about the FAA grounding of the Starship program.

I didn't.

Most likely Elon.

— Christopher David (@Tazerface16) April 26, 2023

Good morning, Elon Musk has been ordered to give a deposition in a trial because Tesla has been claiming that his (many) public statements about Autopilot's capabilities might have been deepfaked.

Seriously.https://t.co/iVmwaj5HFa pic.twitter.com/r1sTqBqZ1L

— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) April 27, 2023

You don't have to be a sociopath to be a billionaire, but it helps.

lmao I had a feeling he would be the first to try to use that defense