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SpaceX closing in on first Starship Super Heavy launch

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Re: SpaceX closing in on first Starship Super Heavy launch

#21

Press releases from SpaceX have alluded to a possible launch date of 420, which I think would be hilariously on brand.

How fucking lame, especially for a company that drug tests.

If someone can't quit for the time it takes to get a job, then I wouldn't want them on my team. It's usually one and done at these companies, not random throughout employment, and usually purely for outside regulation purposes. A modicum of self control isn't a bad thing.

Re: SpaceX closing in on first Starship Super Heavy launch

#22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How fucking lame, especially for a company that drug tests.

If someone can't quit for the time it takes to get a job, then I wouldn't want them on my team. It's usually one and done at these companies, not random throughout employment, and usually purely for outside regulation purposes. A modicum of self control isn't a bad thing.

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Re: SpaceX closing in on first Starship Super Heavy launch

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post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How fucking lame, especially for a company that drug tests.

I assuming they drug test because it's a requirement for govt contracts. Given that they get something like 98% of their funding from the govt, they can't exactly flippantly violate their best customers rules.

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Re: SpaceX closing in on first Starship Super Heavy launch

#24

Press releases from SpaceX have alluded to a possible launch date of 420, which I think would be hilariously on brand.

Subtext aside, it would also be the last day of the space symposium, so, heck of a way to close the conference.

Re: SpaceX closing in on first Starship Super Heavy launch

#25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How fucking lame, especially for a company that drug tests.

If someone can't quit for the time it takes to get a job, then I wouldn't want them on my team. It's usually one and done at these companies, not random throughout employment, and usually purely for outside regulation purposes. A modicum of self control isn't a bad thing.

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Re: SpaceX closing in on first Starship Super Heavy launch

#26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How fucking lame, especially for a company that drug tests.

If someone can't quit for the time it takes to get a job, then I wouldn't want them on my team. It's usually one and done at these companies, not random throughout employment, and usually purely for outside regulation purposes. A modicum of self control isn't a bad thing.

> then I wouldn't want them on my team.

> A modicum of self control isn't a bad thing.

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Re: SpaceX closing in on first Starship Super Heavy launch

#27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How fucking lame, especially for a company that drug tests.

If someone can't quit for the time it takes to get a job, then I wouldn't want them on my team. It's usually one and done at these companies, not random throughout employment, and usually purely for outside regulation purposes. A modicum of self control isn't a bad thing.

Do you also feel that way about alcohol? If you found social media posts of an employee drinking would you want to fire them?

Re: SpaceX closing in on first Starship Super Heavy launch

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Whether or not they hit April specifically (some of which isn't under their control, freak weather or the like can happen) they've clearly been checking through prep at an impressive, disciplined pace and it'll be soon. And importantly once they start they've set things up to keep the iteration going and do more and more ironing things out, and then going into full production. All technical merits aside, that , mass…

Yeah regardless of the outcome the real significance here is the SpaceX getting into an orbital launch test cadence, which with some luck should speed up after the first few once the various kinks in preparation and the bureaucratic half of the equation get smoothed out and it all becomes routine.

Re: SpaceX closing in on first Starship Super Heavy launch

#30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How fucking lame, especially for a company that drug tests.

If someone can't quit for the time it takes to get a job, then I wouldn't want them on my team. It's usually one and done at these companies, not random throughout employment, and usually purely for outside regulation purposes. A modicum of self control isn't a bad thing.

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