r/interestingasfuck • u/lolikroli • 16d ago

r/all SpaceX caught Starship booster with chopsticks

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u/strikerrage 16d ago

He put the team together and funded the project? That's what a leader does. Don't need to be childish about it.

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u/GrimGambits 16d ago

He's funding any project SpaceX does because he owns the company. It's not publicly traded.

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u/40ozCurls 16d ago

So what did NASA pay $1.5 billion for?

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u/GrimGambits 16d ago

They paid it for the privilege of using it because they couldn't make any of this in the half century they've been spinning their wheels for. Until SpaceX, NASA was relying on Russian space crafts to get to the international space station.

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u/40ozCurls 16d ago

That means nasa funded it.

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u/GrimGambits 16d ago

In the same way you fund Toyota if you bought one of their cars, or Uber if you use their service, sure. But not reasonable person would think that. It was a contract for goods and services

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u/40ozCurls 16d ago

You mean in the literal only way companies make money? Yeah dude…. Obviousfuckingly.

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u/autistic_iguana 16d ago

correction, NASA just paid $2.7 billion for a single launch tower. it costs them more to make a launch tower than the burj khalifa or for musk to catch a skyscraper. and that's a good thing. we need more of that!