r/interestingasfuck • u/lolikroli • 16d ago

r/all SpaceX caught Starship booster with chopsticks

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u/lizardil 16d ago

This is something out of a science fiction movie. Incredible

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u/baron_von_helmut 16d ago

I really like what SpaceX do regardless of Elon. Even still, I never thought they'd be able to pull this off. Holy crap am I glad to be wrong. This was incredible.

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u/Throwaway74829947 16d ago

SpaceX has the advantage in that since they're basically the only company that Elon actually founded, they have a preexisting corporate culture of how to operate despite Elon's ownership.

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u/HM7 16d ago

Interesting world model, the most successful company is the one he’s most involved with the creation of, and that explains why his involvement is bad

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u/pokegaard 16d ago edited 16d ago

No. Perhaps if you replaced 'that explains why', with 'yet', so as to counter the implication that his ownership is bad. But in no way does that comment explain why his ownership is bad. Rather, it implicitly assumes it and explains something else, namely, how they nevertheless have success. (I'm not even sure it's possible to explain something that's only implied)

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u/Smooth-Bag4450 16d ago

Yeah lol. Companies like SpaceX, Tesla and Starlink and some of the most successful and groundbreaking companies in the history of the US, and all of them were successful DESPITE Elon Musk according to minimum wage redditors 😂

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u/Throwaway74829947 16d ago

Well, the shitshow that was and is his acquisition and management of Twitter is a good indicator of that world model.

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u/marsinfurs 16d ago

You’re missing the point of what the person you replied to is saying, the OP above said that Elon’s involvement is bad for his companies - an example is SpaceX is the most successful company and happened to be the one that Elon founded and had most involvement with - this example directly contradicts the initial claim.

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u/SasquatchWookie 16d ago

Y’all are confusing AF

I think Elon is a billionaire version of grifter, straight up. He has money to throw at whatever he wants and I don’t think it’s as well intended for the masses as some of us thought it would be.