His point is that everyone said landing and reusing rockets was impossible and made fun of Elon and SpaceX for years for attempting it.

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myko 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

No, people made fun of Elon for years because he kept attempting it unsafely, skirting regulations and rules, and failing repeatedly in very public ways.

The idea itself was proven by NASA with the DC-X but the project was canceled due to funding. Now instead of having NASA run it we SpaceX pay more than we'd ever have paid NASA for the same thing.

DC-X test flight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE7XJ5HYQW4

It's awesome that Falcon 9 exists and it is great technology but this guy really isn't the one anyone should want in charge of it.

	▲	kortilla an hour ago \| parent [-]
		>Now instead of having NASA run it we SpaceX pay more than we'd ever have paid NASA for the same thing. This doesn’t pass the smell test given that the cost of launch with spacex is lower than it ever was under ULA. NASA has never been about cheap launches, just novel technology. Look at the costs of Saturn and SLS to see what happens when they do launch.

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SmirkingRevenge 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

He also said he could save the us a trillion dollars per year with DOGE, and basically just caused a lot data exfiltration and killed hundreds of thousands of people, without saving any money at all

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sejje 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Elon Musk killed hundreds of thousands of people?

	▲	SmirkingRevenge 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes. Mostly kids, because of the DOGE ransacking of USAID https://healthpolicy-watch.news/the-human-cost-one-year-afte...