Peeble streamer on Doop 🟥🟨Apr 22, 2023

@waitworry @JenYetAgain as a colleague said, and probably many others, when he talked about rockets, I thought seems legit, he knows rockets, I don't, when he talked about electric cars, I thought seems legit, he knows electric cars and I don't, when he talked about software development, I vowed to never get in one of his cards or rockets.

I can't believe NASA is working with space x, after this incident.

Show threadCompuguy 🐱Apr 23, 2023
@Wildheart_Baby @waitworry @JenYetAgain I honestly don't think the Muskrat knows anything really about the companies he owns/manages. Out of all the companies, up until this point, it *seemed* like SpaceX seemed to have reliable products (including the Falcon 9)...😬
Show threadbassplayerApr 23, 2023
@compuguy @Wildheart_Baby @waitworry @JenYetAgain I doubt he does. Not a fan. Why up to this point? SpaceX is the only american company with a human rated vehicle. Their Falcon9 launches are utterly boring and go off without a hitch. Boeing starliner has not been certified nor blue origin AFAIK. SLS finally flew recently after decades. SpaceX is crushing it yet people judge them by Starship which is a prototype and not in production.
Show threadBaron VonskinnbackApr 23, 2023
@bassplayer @compuguy @Wildheart_Baby @waitworry @[email protected] we judge the irresponsible nature of how this went down, we judge that he ignored people more intelligent than he will ever be when they told him there would be issues, we judge the waste & biblical incompetence of one of the richest men in the world who has pocketed billions of taxpayers cash & set light to it in front of our eyes during a cost of living crisis.
Show threadFrank Bennett 🇯🇵
@Vonskinnback @bassplayer @compuguy @Wildheart_Baby @waitworry @JenYetAgain He keeps making ludicrous claims. This vehicle won't ever be able to carry 100 passengers. Point-to- point ballistic transport is a complete non-starter. The immense technical hurdles to traveling to Mars, let alone colonizing the place, can't be waved away. People get annoyed when he keeps broadcasting this garbage through friendly media conduits.
Apr 23, 2023 at 9:12amWeb
Show threadNow at @[email protected]Apr 23, 2023

@fgbjr @Vonskinnback @bassplayer @compuguy @Wildheart_Baby @waitworry @JenYetAgain It's also fairly well known at this point that Gwynne Shotwell is actually running the show at SpaceX.

Gwynne is an actual mechanical engineer who'd worked in the aerospace industry for a decade before SpaceX. She's also the adult in the room and the manchild.

Without her, SpaceX would be a Twitter-level shitshow: https://youtu.be/K1xWaua-nLI

The Only Reason SpaceX Works (Gwynne Shotwell)

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Show threadFrank Bennett 🇯🇵Apr 23, 2023
@ajsadauskas @Vonskinnback @bassplayer @compuguy @Wildheart_Baby @waitworry @JenYetAgain All true, but she has also touted Starship as a viable means of intercontinental transportation, one of the top WTF proposals coming out of the project. Elon probably commanded her to do so, but still.
Show threadbassplayerApr 23, 2023
@fgbjr @ajsadauskas @Vonskinnback @compuguy @Wildheart_Baby @waitworry @JenYetAgain I did hear about the point to point proposal assumed it was for retail and military but don't know why it would be infeasible
Show threadFrank Bennett 🇯🇵Apr 23, 2023
@bassplayer @ajsadauskas @Vonskinnback @compuguy @Wildheart_Baby @waitworry @JenYetAgain Cost, inflexibility, risk of collateral damage from detonation at launch or landing. The military are not interested.
Show threadbassplayerApr 23, 2023
@ajsadauskas @fgbjr @Vonskinnback @compuguy @Wildheart_Baby @waitworry @JenYetAgain Whoops been spelling her name wrong but totally agree she is doing a great job
Show threadCompuguy 🐱Apr 23, 2023
@ajsadauskas @fgbjr @Vonskinnback @bassplayer @Wildheart_Baby @waitworry @JenYetAgain Agreed. She's been running the show at SpaceX. Though I suspect the Muskrat has had more of a role in Starship....
Show threadrandom thoughtsApr 24, 2023

@ajsadauskas @fgbjr @Vonskinnback @bassplayer @compuguy @Wildheart_Baby @waitworry @JenYetAgain

I wonder if she left the "Starship" work to Musk and concentrates on the very successful Falcon instead.

One is a shitshow, and the other is a very lucrative business which launches like clockwork.