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| ▲ | ceejayoz 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | They did say building, not built. Starship R&D work is… tough to deny. | | |
| ▲ | sporkxrocket 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Musk constantly promises to build things that never get built. He's 99% vaporware. Unless it actually exists, it's safe to assume that it never will. | | |
| ▲ | ceejayoz 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I'm very much in the Musk hater category, but it really takes some doing to dismiss SpaceX as vaporware. | | |
| ▲ | stickfigure 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | This is the problem with the dialogue around Musk. He's not 99% vaporware, he's 80-90% vaporware. That's problem enough. In some cases, like Tesla, the vaporware is propping up the company (pivoting to robots!) even though sales are crashing because of the self-inflicted immolation of his personal brand. This is not going to end well. | |
| ▲ | sporkxrocket 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Going to the moon is very much vaporware. Maybe the penultimate example of it. | | |
| ▲ | ceejayoz 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Going to the moon was, at the very least, demonstrated as technologically possible in the 1960s, and you can literally go watch a Starship launch if you want. I have a very hard time putting it in the same "entirely prospective" category as androids, self-driving taxis, and Mars bases. | | |
| ▲ | sporkxrocket 2 days ago | parent [-] | | The moon is orders of magnitude more difficult to land on than launching a LEO satellite. | | |
| ▲ | ceejayoz 2 days ago | parent [-] | | And that'd be a great point if we didn't already do it six times with slide rules in the 1960s. |
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| ▲ | buellerbueller 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | penultimate = second last | | |
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| ▲ | seneca 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | > Musk constantly promises to build things that never get built. He's 99% vaporware. Absolutely laughable motivated reasoning. Hate the guy if you must, but claiming one of the most impactful business leaders in American history is "99% vaporware" makes you look silly. | | |
| ▲ | sporkxrocket 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Every shareholder meeting he announces something that never comes to fruition. He’s the vaporware king. |
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| ▲ | nomdep 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yet | | |
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