I got a YouTube ad of a deepfaked Elon Musk offering 100 people in my country of TeslaCoin that was something something not a supercomputer but a hypercomputer. Provided a real good laugh but also a good indicator that advertising is going to get a whole lot worse than before

Wasn't the last space race just War: Lite? Definitely preferred to War: Nuclear Annihilation, but only because space is way cooler

New space race, lads. Be there or be square😎

Bro, you brought your negative ass attitude and reformer mindset into my comment about the the hopes for the future of space. Literally trying to make SpaceX seem worthless on a post about its success. I was being nice at first. I told you Idgaf about Elon anymore, only SpaceX and you doubled down with whatever repetitive Elon put downs twitter regularly likes to spout.

If you want content like that, go to r/enoughmuskspam

You might actually like the content there, despite their name making absolutely no sense

The Space Age we were promised, at last

Yeah, I don't think I'm going to bother to respond since its clear that you're completely ignorant on this.

Check out Eric Berger's Lift Off. He's a very competent space reporter and he wrote this book detailing the early exploits of SpaceX. It's definitely worth a read and really puts into frame what SpaceX have achieved here. And no it's not a love letter to Elon. It's got genuine recounts from the early employees of the company.

In your first reply to my comment, you'd suggested that you might be "stupid tho". I can't confirm anything for sure, but there is a chance you might be. Good luck with that. :)

Everytime the government gives NASA money, the wrap it up in a bunch of conditions that effectively hampers any real work they can do. Think about how much money they wasted on SLS for it to basically be an old rehash using old engines and providing no real benefit. Even nasa acknowledges how much of a success the commercial program has been. They no longer have to fork over huge sums of money to Russia just for access to the ISS. SpaceX proved that Old Space was holding things back.

Curb your Elon hate boner and acknowledge these amazing people and their amazing achievements

My original comment was about the the renewed hope in space. I was expressing excitement about the new horizons we can achieve.

So, thanks for really bringing down the vibes, bro. I'm well aware of Elon's alleged past (from what I've heard, the emerald mine hasn't really been backed up). Either way, I'm ignoring Elon and focusing on SpaceX. The company filled with aspiring people in both leadership and in employees. They began the company with the dream of revolutionising humanity's perspective of space and they've more than achieved that and they're still achieving more. That's impressive and rare in these times. I think, (maybe hope is a better word) SpaceX will provide a huge net positive for this planet, and I eagerly wait to see where we will go.

There's my little speech done. I'm done with Elon and his shit. I just don't care anymore. Just because I'd wasted time idolising him in the past, doesn't mean I'm gonna spend the future hate-worshipping him. It's boring.

I say so far because I'm not blessed with the ability to see into the future, and I don't like eating my words.

Yeah, you are correct. Leadership is important. Musk has been important to SpaceX since the early days. That dynamic has likely changed since the regularity of Falcon 9 launches (like 3 launches in 3 days or something, it's fucking insane)

Musk is an idiot for getting involved in twitter. The only way to fix twitter is with diesel and matches (along with most other social platforms)

No comment on the slave owner thing because that's new to me.

We're still quite a while away from SpaceX sending private astronauts for space colonisation. It will mostly be scientists from nasa and other space orgs

I don't know you and therefore cannot and will not make any comments on whether you're stupid or not

Bonus: Have a nice day :)

Hasn't done anything wrong with the company so far. Anyway, Gwynne Shotwell is in charge of Starship now and she's as qualified as you can get in SpaceX.

It's actually crazy, how SpaceX has allowed so much science to be done at a more affordable rate. Totally unimaginable before. Can't wait to see the new limits, especially once Starship starts getting orbital.

Yeah but net zero doesn't solve the issue we're having, right? I thought we've crossed whatever threshold there was for limiting carbon emissions and we've got to remove carbon from the atmosphere than just stop putting out more.

Also in more concerned that it'll be the same fate as similar programs where it's just used by corporations to greenwash their business while not putting any actual effort to reduce the waste they out out into the world.

Seems like a cool idea but I feel like it'll just be used to offset future carbon emissions that reduce what we're currently putting out

In unrelated news, Atlantis' space program is experiencing unexpected delays

"A fraction? Oh dear lord, no. That's simply far too much"

Didn't nasa basically try to go for the same thing? Like they didn't want to just rely on SpaceX for crew mission to the ISS and they'd hoped/hoping for Boeing to join the club

I think there was some talk about BO trying to renegotiate a better deal for the engines or something? Take with a large table spoon of salt because I think I'd heard it on reddit.

Damn bro, it's not like the bees gave you the allergy. Sounds like a skill issue for your immune system.