What an utter piece of shit.

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[–] 114 points 3 years ago (8 children)

I know it's an anathema to most in the US but the government needs to step up and take Starlink and Space X off Musk for a fair price. He's way too unstable to be trusted with tech that important.

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  • [–] 80 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    A fair price would be musk in jail for his crimes.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I was gonna say $3.50, but jail works too.

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  • [–] 51 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The older I get the more socialist I am. Yeah, take it away from his dumb ass, but don't keep it ffs. Make it employee owned. Make every business employee owned.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    This is how I feel about Starship. Amazing progress is being made and he's going to fuck it all up before it ever has a real mission. It's sad. World's first fully reusable launch vehicle capable of building real shit in space like colonies and infrastructure and it had to be him that did it.

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  • [–] 39 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    Did he really do it? I'm pretty sure that was the engineers, which Musk is not.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    What I meant was it had to be him that became the figurehead. I want someone with the drive and passion for space exploration, not someone with the passion for profit. A humble engineer or scientist who exists only to expand their knowledge and with plenty of fascination about the universe, not this dollar store Tony Stark wannabe narcissistic blowhard.

    I guess I'm shouting at clouds though, because that's how the system is set up. People don't start companies because they want to do something awesome. They start them to make money.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    As much as I hate Musk, I doubt something that ambitious would be tried without him or someone like him. Same with starting a fully EV car company when everyone thought we were just but ready for it. Yes the engineers are the ones who do the work, but it takes someone willing to risk a lot of money, and the ability to bring in more money, to make that stuff happen.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    He didnt start a fully EV car company, HE BOUGHT ONE.

    Quit holding people on high regard based on their cult of personality.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    He made the Tesla we know today, the Tesla we know today would not have existed without Musk, it likely would have died a small silicon valley startup that nobody had ever heard of.

    Just because I hate him doesn't mean I won't give him credit for doing what he did.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I’m pretty sure someone at Tesla or SpaceX put the Twitter idea in his head so he would fuck off and meddle with something else and let them do their actual work instead of dealing with his stupidity, micromanaging and narcissism.

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  • [+] -11 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    Elon can't be trusted with it, but NASA would just stall all progress on it for the next fifty years

    All the downvoters should take a good close look at the cockup that is the SLS program

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    NASA just contracts everything out. I think NASA would be much different if they had something like SpaceX (and was funded properly).

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    NASA just contracts everything out. I think NASA would be much different if they had something like SpaceX (and was funded properly).

    NASA gets so much funding for the SLS, which is so expensive, that NASA itself is saying it's throwing money away. It's US Congress routing tax payer funding to disastrously inefficient contractors, not to have an actually functional space program.

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