OT Musk/Twitter - The Great Experiment

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  1. Phatguysrule

    Phatguysrule Well-Known Member

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    Lol. I hear that. But you can be sure he won't risk his own skin until it has been fully tested and is extremely safe.
     
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    It’s really shitty the way he’s doing this. You know NASA didn’t crash a single Saturn V prototype? Because they cared about safety and science, not flashy self-aggrandizing events on Weed Day.

    the lesson here is privatization of aerospace (or anything honestly) only leads to shitty products with lots of hype.
     
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    This does a great job of explaining what went wrong.

     
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    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/us/spacex-rocket-dust-texas.html

    SpaceX’s Starship Kicked Up a Dust Cloud, Leaving Texans With a Mess

    Residents of Port Isabel said that their city was covered in grime following SpaceX’s rocket launch on Thursday. The city said there was no “immediate concern for people’s health.”

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    But they also spent far more and took far longer to make progress.

    Unfortunately NASA wasn't getting it done anymore. I'd prefer that they were and that the technologies created were publicly owned, but NASA was getting nowhere.
     
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    Other expressions

    • Fire : uncontrolled thermal event
    • Bursting : unplanned loss of containment
    • Crash : deconstructive deceleration
     
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    Death: unscheduled life altering event
     
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    Reading his book now...
     
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    Pretty stupid if you ask me.
     
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    Are you referring to changing the name of Twitter to "X"?...or Musk himself for doing it?....asking for a friend.
     
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    Well, once Twitter fails maybe we can all go back to using RSS feeds? Then you can just subscribe to what you want and you'll see it chronologically.

    That actually sounds nice...
     
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    It's funny to me how the left suddenly hates Elon Musk and wants all of his companies to fail because the TV told them to.
     
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    Most of us have our beliefs because of evidence presented to us, and not because someone told us to think a certain way. But you keep on believing what you want.
     
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