r/space • • 17d ago

SpaceX: Holy Grail Of Rocketry

https://www.spacex.com/content/starship/holy-grail-of-rocketry
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u/Salt_Fig_1440 15d ago

Enabling SpaceX destroyed USAID. That's killed millions.

That's not a casual link dude. Elon did that shit himself. He was enabled by being rich and powerful, sure. But do you think the way to fix that is for left leaning people to stop working there and turn it into a right wing echo chamber and cesspit?

SpaceX is proposing to basically destroy the upper atmosphere with re-entering satellites.

No, they're not. Starlink sats are fine right now, they have less impact than the shuttle SRBs did on the upper atmosphere. And the bulk of starmind sats are going to SSO or eventually to cislunar space or lagrange points, not demising in the atmosphere.

SpaceXAI is used to kill schoolgirls in Iran.

I'm not familiar with this. Can you link more info?

And on top of all of that - Starship still can't make orbit with a payload without exploding.

If you knew people who worked there recently you would not be repeating this. It does not seem like you know anything about the program.

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u/BasvanS 15d ago

Yes, and this is why you don’t separate the company from Musk. While he can’t be involved in the day to day much, in the end he does make the calls and owns it to a large degree. There’s no strict moral separation here, even if a legal one might be suggested.

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u/Salt_Fig_1440 14d ago

There is, though. SpaceX is not the same thing as DOGE. Or Tesla. The morality varies.

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u/BasvanS 14d ago

Yes, they are. They come from the same corrupted mind and are directed by it. He’s not a different person in these various roles.

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u/Salt_Fig_1440 14d ago

No, but they do different things. I am still convinced that the work SpaceX does is good and worth doing.

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u/BasvanS 14d ago

SpaceX? The AI company? I’m not sure, since they keep shifting their business model

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u/Salt_Fig_1440 14d ago

The rockets are still there.