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Cake day: December 16th, 2023

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  • Right?! This right here.

    I was once yelled at by a friend of a girl for “ignoring her advances.” I kid you not, the “advances” consisted of her walking up to me at a party, saying “hey, aren’t you in my math class?” (To which I answered in the affirmative) and “well, um, I guess I’ll see you there Monday!”

    How the fuck was I supposed to know that was an attempt at flirting?

    The older gay guy at work? “You’re gorgeous. Ever consider dating a man?”





  • The company is impressive technically, I guess? I don’t know really. Like I wrote before, Shotwell is running it, not Mr ego personified, so maybe the shine hasn’t worn off like it did for Tesla and Twitter for some people?

    I like what they’ve achieved, I think that it will motivate for ULA and Boeing to ‘do better’ and they’ve proved its possible to succeed at a number of rocket technologies that had been previously written off, like cost effective reusability and full flow staged combustion.

    That said, I’m not going to be upset if ULA pulls ahead of them, or if Rocket Lab has a huge win, or if ArianeSpace decides that it’s time to stop sitting on their hands. I’m a fan of space technology, and I don’t particularly care which company advances the cause.

    *Edit: motivate not moticate



  • deltapi@lemmy.worldtoEnough Musk Spam@lemmy.worldJesus what a burn
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    2 months ago

    Not the greatest example, imo.

    SpaceX has been very consistent in delivering on its government contracts with far more cost efficiency than any of its competitors.

    The most glaring example is the Commercial Crew Program. They were given far less money than Boeing, and it looks like they might end up being the sole US provider of commercial crew to the ISS.

    Starship HLS (moon lander starship) is government funded, but core Starship is not, it’s financed with private equity - so the rocket explosions haven’t been on the taxpayers’ dime.

    That all said, Elon doesn’t really run SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell does - which is probably the smartest business decision Elon has ever made.