Boeing plz

Thing is never gonna launch at this rate

It's hard to overstate how far ahead of anyone else SpaceX is. Honestly don't know if I can recall a similar situation in an industry

I use it basically everyday for work. It just makes life a lot easier

You're gonna need a whole lot of batteries to support 2 weeks of energy needs

Shipping is not carbon intensive relative to other methods of transport

You know what is also making Russia feel the bite? All the western ammunition and equipment that Ukraine is using to defend itself from the Russian invaders that's been raping women, kidnapping children, and committing genocide for the last year

Genuine question - are you trolling?

Like, how does someone write that post with a straight face while the war in Ukraine is happening

Fairly sure it's just sunlight reflecting off the exhaust particles

Says the person who started whining about "Elon shills" when the thread had like 5 comments

It's about as weird as the people who try to push the narratives that Musk must in no way be given any credit for anything good or impressive that the companies he's been in charge of for 2 decades do

Fair point

I still doubt they're gonna have the ability to pump out 2 rockets a month in less than 3 years

The idea that the ULA would be able to pump out 2 full new rockets consistently each month and have enough demand for it in a world where SpaceX can profitable launch mass to orbit for far less seems wildly unrealistic

Progressive ex twitter employee posts article on progressive newsite the atlantic, expressing feelings of not being a fan of Elon Musk's changes to Twitter, more news at 11

As if Twitter wasn't already a toxic hellscape long before Musk took it over

Oh there are similarities when you describe the two cases at a surface level. But any kind of deeper look at the two scenarios should make it super obvious that it's not really things that are comparable

The contracts that SpaceX won very early on when they were basically a very young startup with no proven track record. Those contracts are comparable to this contract that BO has been awarded

So SpaceX won't be able to have a starship based lander ready in time....but some other aerospace company will? As far as jokes go that's a pretty good one

I don't really have a much of a problem with BO getting this contract

However trying to argue that BO getting this is in any way comparable to SpaceX getting their HLS contract is pretty silly and doesn't hold up to much scrutiny

All these tests being successful is so awesome, but at the same time I'm just over here going "can it be launch day yet already!?"

The wait for the first launch attempt has been and continues to be brutal lol

3 + 3 is 4?

How so? Felt my post was pretty clear in it's intend.

Though I do appreciate that you think that little ol' me not overlooking the thread cancels out thousands of absent upvotes and comments that Musk/Tesla related threads usually get on this sub

No I was quite aware that I made a post in here, but thank you for pointing out the obvious nonetheless

An astute observation

For a sub that loves to upvotes every minor thing related to Musk or Tesla, this sure has been oddly overlooked lol

Many people are probably gonna point to companies like Waymo who already operate robotaxi's. And that is true, and they will continue to operate for several years to come at minimum

However Waymo isn't close to profitable, and their tech isn't really designed in a scalable way (cars are too expensive, not able to be mass produced, and the software basically needs a ton of hardcoding to work in any given area), which is why they're still only operating in a few small parts of cities like Phoenix and San Francisco

How many people that paint physical paintings actually make a living from it though. Like its all well and good that some things are harder to do for ai than others, but it doesnt really matter unless its a high demand thing.

It continues to be hilarious that so many people, including "experts", thought this transition would take decades