• NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I know you all like to think that Musk does nothing at SpaceX, but that’s not the case. He is heavily involved with Starship, and he was involved with F9 in the past. For example, landing on barges was his push, same as pushing to use stainless steel for Starship.

    Whenever someone working at SpaceX says hes involved though, you all just dismiss it as “they don’t want to lose their job”

    Shotwell runs the day to day though, he’s not involved with that.

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      4 months ago

      In business, just like in war, the few take credit for the work and will of the many.

      We remember Eisenhower, not the millions who died and sacrificed their life fighting for him.

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        We do remember those people… there’s a huge WWII memorial in DC and memorials around the country. The Korean War has a great memorial in DC too, great statues.

        Dwight Eisenhower apparently has a small memorial as well. I had to look it up to find it. The first review says:

        We just happened to find this memorial while waiting for our timed entry into the Air and Space Museum.

        So, who is remembered more?

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      same as pushing to use stainless steel for Starship.

      Which he totally didn’t do because he’s a fucking moron who likes stainless steel, nooo this is definitely a sign that his contributions are meaningful

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        It’s stronger than aluminium, as well as easier to manufacture and work in less-than-ideal conditions than carbon fiber. Useful traits when your end goal is to build a whole fuckton of the biggest, most capable, fully reusable rockets in history.

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          Don’t worry, if SS ends up being a failure for any reason they’ll blame him, but if it succeeds they’ll be silent or say it was dumb luck or he had nothing to do with it.