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aProudCatDad614 t1_japcrzt wrote

Reply to comment by Glittering_Leading93 in After flying four astronauts into orbit, SpaceX makes its 101st straight landing — ‘I just feel so lucky that I get to fly on this amazing machine.’ by marketrent

What SpaceX has accomplished says nothing about Musk, except that he'll profit off of it. That's what he's there for.

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Kogru-au t1_jaq0lay wrote

Musk is still the boss, he sets the agenda for everyone under him. To disregard that is silly regardless of what you think of him.

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Jeanlucpfrog t1_jaqiydi wrote

>What SpaceX has accomplished says nothing about Musk, except that he'll profit off of it. That's what he's there for.

And yet, if SpaceX had faceplanted posts like yours would be saying that SpaceX says everything about Musk. Same with Tesla.

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cSwish t1_japdz29 wrote

Yea shame on him for wanting to make money and use it to better the world!

Suppose I need an /s here.

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aProudCatDad614 t1_japg1f4 wrote

I genuinely do not understand this weirdly innocent love of Elon Musk. I'm gonna give props to the engineers and scientists who made it happen tho

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sanand143 t1_japgtjw wrote

SoaceX engineers say he is good, why you say otherwise? Is SpaceX forcing employees to speak positively?

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Vecii t1_japla2t wrote

Yes, lots of engineers and scientists had their hands in it, but it takes a leader to make it happen. That leader is Musk.

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tanrgith t1_jasp1qs wrote

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

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Ball-of-Yarn t1_japhccs wrote

How is he using his money to better the world? He lost a good chunk of it trying to pump and dump twitter.

SpaceX is paying him, not the other way around. He's an investor, nothing more.

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IAMSNORTFACED t1_japl318 wrote

Investors don't sleep in the factory trying to fix/improve production issues, Investors can't deep dive into how their rocket engines work and make engineering changes mid interview because they just realised a more beneficial way of doing something.

Stop getting your information from 4th hand sources

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cSwish t1_japiae7 wrote

"Lost a good chunk of it"

He is the richest person in the world. I don't think that hurt him. But even buying twitter to allow it to be more of a free speech platform is better than it was.

Spacex has done more for the space industry than the last 40 years prior.

Tesla started the electric car revolution. Now every company is doing it.

Oh yeah lets not forget about global internet access with Starlink, only available because of SpaceX's ability to launch multiple times a month.

We can keep going but it's clear there is no use.

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elcholismo t1_japn9vl wrote

exactly, the scientists are the ones doing all the work, people need to learn how to view spaceX and musk as 2 separate entities, it’s like supporting the soviet leaders because they had a space program that contributed greatly to developments in space flight.

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