It's a strange world when people in other countries are waving American flags again.

Sure, a rocket that doesn't reach orbit is still a rocket. But other than test flights, they are pretty much just good for seeding clouds. Or joy rides.
Reaching orbit is the real goal.

The name straight up sounds like "space sex". Because Elon.

Appreciate the insight. And Gwynne is definitely a treasure. I've often said I bet Elon wishes he had someone like that for Tesla. She is certainly part of what makes SpaceX exceptional. And they did hire her because she had a similar idea of "better, faster, cheaper, and different". SpaceX is the kind of company she dreamed she could work for when traditional aerospace was all there was, despite the problems or shortcomings of traditional aerospace being known.

I'm pretty much with you. I could care less about the guy. But I can separate my feelings about stupid shit he says that I disagree with from his and his companies' achievements.

Did they conjure up a quick snowstorm for entertainment?

It's a testament to the fitness of the human design that these folks haven't made themselves extinct.

I don't particularly care if they glue themselves to it.

Of course that will throw off the aerodynamics. For a few minutes.

I bet there were people protesting the demonic invention of the pulley as well.

So that taxpayers can spend ten times as much and still not be able to launch, much less launch anything reusable? SLS has been in the works for well over a decade.
But that's a private company too. It's almost like NASA has never built rockets as part of its mission and they have always been built by private contractors.

It's not SpaceX' fault the competition looks so weak.

I believe they are putting the finishing touches on a treaty where all satellites will need to have the capacity to deorbit in order to get launch permission. Fortunately that isn't an issue for Starlink because SpaceX thought of that.

So many people and even other auto companies keep thinking Tesla and SpaceX' successes can be easily duplicated. Turns out they both really are genuinely difficult problems and Musk's companies are rather exceptional at finding solutions. But people don't want to admit this, either out of arrogance or personal dislike of Musk.

All the AWS money in the world couldn't build a rocket that works. So sad.

edit: I do enjoy mocking both Bezos and Blue Origin but can honestly say I would prefer it and the world would be a better place if BO's rockets were doing orbital flights on the regular. I'm just making lemonade with the lemons we got.

She was so good in Iron Sky.

"According to a long-standing tradition, Finnish and Swedish prime ministers usually meet very shortly after taking office."

I'm guessing he ran for Prime Minister mostly to get to meet Sanna Marin.

Yes, they secretly collaborated with SpaceX to put Roscosmos out of business and provide Ukraine with wartime communications. /s