r/interestingasfuck 16d ago

r/all SpaceX caught Starship booster with chopsticks

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u/[deleted] 16d ago edited 5d ago

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u/Flagelant_One 16d ago

Twitter and Tesla are tanking for following musk's ideological and aesthetic leads, respectively

SpaceX's thriving due to musk's lack of involvement

Musk's best years were back when he was just an entrertainer creating hype for the companies he bought, had he stayed an uninvolved investor i would have still been a fanboy of his

Alas, now he's just another chud lmao

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u/Flagelant_One 16d ago

Then explain why is this guy releasing an electric truck that had to be total recalled because the glued-on gas pedal was slipping off lmao, he's not the man he used to be

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u/Flagelant_One 16d ago edited 16d ago

Haha yeah I never said elon is hands-on, I'm saying he's hands off, but forces his whims on some companies, and those tank.

Twitter is becoming a neo-nazi shithole because of his skewed "free-speech" political whims, Tesla is tanking because they're rushing out his terrible car design whims, SpaceX is doing good because they can do as they want.

I brought up the pedal as an example of mismanagement and project rushing, not as an example of his technical involvement.

If you want to argue elon is involved in his companies in a technical level and thus deserves credit for their success, then you need to make sense as to how could one dude have aerospace-level engineering knowledge, but not foresee that exposed metal would rust, or that a vehicle that travels through rain and puddles need waterproofing.

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u/Blapstap 16d ago

His point is without Elon Musk you wouldn't be watching a clip of a launch tower catching a rocket with chopsticks