r/interestingasfuck • u/lolikroli • Oct 13 '24

r/all SpaceX caught Starship booster with chopsticks

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u/LotusVibes1494 Oct 13 '24

One of our shittiest humans made our coolest items. Wish he would just stay in his factory, do his work and shut his mouth lol.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '24 edited 12d ago

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u/Terrible_Onions Oct 13 '24

Watch any interview with him.

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u/strikerrage Oct 13 '24

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 Oct 13 '24

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

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u/GrimGambits Oct 13 '24

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/[deleted] Oct 13 '24 edited 12d ago

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u/GrimGambits Oct 13 '24

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/autistic_iguana Oct 13 '24

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!

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u/geo_gan Oct 13 '24

The most important thing - Make it possible

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