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Re: Crew-9 Returns to Earth

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Post by rpmisms » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 4:31 PM UTC

pavlov wrote: post #262

weberer wrote: post #183

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>"We're going to stand by for splashdown located in the Gulf of America," she said. >Ah, yes. The Gulf of America. >This is why we can't have nice things. That doesn't sound like an "excellent journalist". It sounds like a Redditor.

Yeah, instead of evaluating a journalist by looking at over a decade of high-quality work he has done writing about this space, let’s pull up a joke from one article and judge that. Do you realize that you’re the one behaving like a low-quality Redditor here.

You're arguing from priors. I respect Berger's work, but it doesn't exempt him from acting like a pillock, clearly.

Re: Crew-9 Returns to Earth

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Post by imglorp » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 4:31 PM UTC

exodust wrote: post #364

indoordin0saur wrote: post #316

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Before he took his recent (regrettable) turn he did pour his heart and soul (and personal fortune) into SpaceX for over a decade. If it weren't for SpaceX we'd be relying on the incompetent monstrosities of Boeing or ULA.

> recent (regrettable) turn It's only regrettable through the lens of partisan politics. DOGE is undeniably a good concept. You will notice governments around the world copying the method. That is, launching initiatives to audit everything, cut wasteful spending, expose corrupt spending, and trim bureaucratic inefficiency via external oversight. It would be regrettable not to undertake the task.

DOGE saving effectiveness has been questioned. https://www.npr.org/2025/02/19/nx-s1-5302705/doge-overstates...

Of the $6.8T budget, $55B (or whatever is the truth) would amount to less than 0.9% of spending. https://usafacts.org/articles/this-chart-tells-you-everythin...

Anyway, we have a Government Accounting Office already which is highly critical of waste. If anyone was earnest, they'd send them more resources.

On the other hand, if someone wanted to cripple every infrastructure, institution, and agency across the board in order to cause chaos, without transparency, accountability, and compliance, then DOGE is super effective!

Re: Crew-9 Returns to Earth

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Post by slater » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 4:32 PM UTC

exodust wrote: post #364

indoordin0saur wrote: post #316

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Before he took his recent (regrettable) turn he did pour his heart and soul (and personal fortune) into SpaceX for over a decade. If it weren't for SpaceX we'd be relying on the incompetent monstrosities of Boeing or ULA.

> recent (regrettable) turn It's only regrettable through the lens of partisan politics. DOGE is undeniably a good concept. You will notice governments around the world copying the method. That is, launching initiatives to audit everything, cut wasteful spending, expose corrupt spending, and trim bureaucratic inefficiency via external oversight. It would be regrettable not to undertake the task.

> DOGE is undeniably a good concept.

On paper.

Re: Crew-9 Returns to Earth

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Post by n4r9 » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 4:32 PM UTC

somenameforme wrote: post #284

n4r9 wrote: post #187

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Just last year NASA launched the largest ever interplanetary space-craft, and hopefully the first craft to approach and conduct scientific studies on Europa. SpaceX is almost entirely focused on getting humans into space - which is great - but NASA's work is not to be discounted.

NASA built the probe, but SpaceX launched it. [1] I don't think you were suggesting otherwise, but somebody who did not know as much would probably misunderstand what you're saying. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Clipper#Launch_2

Thanks, you're right I didn't mean to suggest otherwise.

Re: Crew-9 Returns to Earth

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Post by ComplexSystems » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 4:32 PM UTC

adastra22 wrote: post #46

iancmceachern wrote: post #7

I'm going ahead and deciding that astronaut is no longer the awesome job I thought it was when I was younger. I'm good on that.

I don’t understand this take? They got to spend the better part of a year doing what they love. Sounds pretty kick-ass to me.

I doubt they're happy about having to be up there that long.

Re: Crew-9 Returns to Earth

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Post by OKRainbowKid » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 4:33 PM UTC

grandiego wrote: post #390

Workaccount2 wrote: post #375

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If Elon recognized that he had the social skills of an NPC and had hired a PR team, we would probably all still adore him and likely he would still just be doing engineering company stuff. Take heed, if you have money, power, and poor social skills, hire people to manage it for you.

Sad world where people expects successful people to hire a PR team just to be liked.

Not as sad as a world in which Billionaires actively and shamelessly use their power to rebuild the government on their favor and spread misinformation, populism and hate globally their own media platforms.

Re: Crew-9 Returns to Earth

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Post by amluto » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 4:36 PM UTC

grandiego wrote: post #390

Workaccount2 wrote: post #375

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If Elon recognized that he had the social skills of an NPC and had hired a PR team, we would probably all still adore him and likely he would still just be doing engineering company stuff. Take heed, if you have money, power, and poor social skills, hire people to manage it for you.

Sad world where people expects successful people to hire a PR team just to be liked.

Only if one insists on talking/tweeting all the time. Plenty of business leaders do just fine by mostly keeping their mouths shut.

Re: Crew-9 Returns to Earth

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Post by scblock » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 4:37 PM UTC

dyauspitr wrote: post #361

ta1243 wrote: post #334

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It seemed to all start going wrong with "pedo guy". Before then Musk was doing great things at Tesla and SpaceX. After that he started getting more and more unhinged, leading through to buying twitter, then trying to get out of it, then doubling down.

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Re: Crew-9 Returns to Earth

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Post by rpmisms » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 4:42 PM UTC

torben-friis wrote: post #213

flanked-evergl wrote: post #140

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Like?

Didn’t he very publicly offer to fund fixing world hunger then ignored it when an NGO came up with an actual plan?

He called them on some ridiculous claim that $10 billion could end world hunger. He said that if they could show him how, he'd donate the money.

Spoiler alert, they could not show him how.

Re: Crew-9 Returns to Earth

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Post by reverendsteveii » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 4:44 PM UTC

Workaccount2 wrote: post #375

ta1243 wrote: post #334

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It seemed to all start going wrong with "pedo guy". Before then Musk was doing great things at Tesla and SpaceX. After that he started getting more and more unhinged, leading through to buying twitter, then trying to get out of it, then doubling down.

If Elon recognized that he had the social skills of an NPC and had hired a PR team, we would probably all still adore him and likely he would still just be doing engineering company stuff. Take heed, if you have money, power, and poor social skills, hire people to manage it for you.

For me all he had to do was not openly be a genocidal white supremacist. Maybe he needs a crew to help him with that, but I think there's something about that that's a bit more than "poor social skills" and I'm sick of pretending that me not knowing what to say to people at funerals is the same as him delivering multiple Nazi salutes at the presidential inauguration.