Musk Droppings (1 Viewer)

[Huntn]

SpaceX’s Starship explodes in second failure for Musk’s Mars program

Back-to-back mishaps indicate big setbacks for program to launch satellites and send humans to the moon and Mars

www.theguardian.com

The failure comes just more than a month after the company’s seventh Starship flight also ended in an explosive failure. The back-to-back mishaps occurred in early mission phases that SpaceX has easily surpassed previously, indicating serious setbacks for a program Musk has sought to speed up this year.

 

[Optimus Prime]

 

[Sendai]

Yeah, that’s not a good look. Wishing for the demise of a US business. One with 125,000 employees. One with millions of folks retirement funds. I’d say this will haunt him politically big time. Just run it on a loop.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Yeah, that’s not a good look. Wishing for the demise of a US business. One with 125,000 employees. One in million of folks retirement funds. I’d say this will haunt him politically big time. Just run it on a loop.

after dismantling the government, threatening democracy and the constitution, ending life saving aid and research, ruining our reputation to the rest of the world and this is a bad look? This may come back to haunt????

Get the hell out of here with that

 

[Dragon]

after dismantling the government, threatening democracy and the constitution, ending life saving aid and research, ruining our reputation to the rest of the world and this is a bad look? This may come back to haunt????

Get the hell out of here with that

Not to mention openly promoting white nationalism.

 

[Sendai]

after dismantling the government, threatening democracy and the constitution, ending life saving aid and research, ruining our reputation to the rest of the world and this is a bad look? This may come back to haunt????

Get the hell out of here with that

Yeah, musk is not an excuse for a bone headed political gaff. Not likely to go far in the next primary with that hanging over his head. Too bad too. He was one of my favorites. As I stated before, I wanted him at the top of the ticket. But I still have Jared Polis.

 

[Dragon]

Yeah, that’s not a good look. Wishing for the demise of a US business. One with 125,000 employees. One with millions of folks retirement funds. I’d say this will haunt him politically big time. Just run it on a loop.

And yet you support the dismantling of government offices with far more employees ?

 

[Saint Jack]

Yeah, that’s not a good look. Wishing for the demise of a US business. One with 125,000 employees. One with millions of folks retirement funds. I’d say this will haunt him politically big time. Just run it on a loop.

Meanwhile, the GOP went crazy over ONE Bud Light commercial.

 

[Sendai]

And yet you support the dismantling of government offices with far more employees ?

I support studying and evaluating the federal bureaucracy. Then planning a rational approach to improving cost and efficiency. Eliminate the unnecessary. Remove bloat.

The department of education has 4.200 employees.

 

[Sendai]

BS. Musk isn’t integral to anything SpaceX has accomplished now or in the past.

Musk is a sociopath who needs to go. He’s a security threat to our country.

42% equity in Spacex and 79% voting shares says otherwise.

 

[longtime lurker]

Tesla (TSLA) accounting raises red flags as report shows $1.4 billion missing

Tesla’s (TSLA) accounting practices are raising red flags as a new report from the Financial Times shows that $1.4 billion...

electrek.co

 

[bird]

Tesla (TSLA) accounting raises red flags as report shows $1.4 billion missing

Tesla’s (TSLA) accounting practices are raising red flags as a new report from the Financial Times shows that $1.4 billion...

electrek.co

A billion here, a billion there and pretty soon you are talking about real money.

I hope the board kicks his azz out.

 

[MT15]

Yeah, that’s not a good look. Wishing for the demise of a US business. One with 125,000 employees. One with millions of folks retirement funds. I’d say this will haunt him politically big time. Just run it on a loop.

Well, well, well. Musk takes the stage at CPAC and celebrates firing tens of thousands of people and doing it in a very cruel way - telling people with exemplary work records that they are being fired for incompetence. Giving people less than an hour to clean out their desks and get out. Musk celebrates the cruelty and even waves a chainsaw on stage to celebrate illegal firings. Then he endorses the notion that judges who rule that these firings are illegal need to be impeached.

Sendai says not one word about any of that. Not. One. Word.

 

[MT15]

Name what Musk has done - specifically Musk - that was responsible for any of the innovations of his companies. He’s the money guy. He likes to personally take credit for his companies’ scientific accomplishments and he likes to tell lies.

As I said before - we have first hand reports that Musk’s companies are hindered by him more than helped. That they have to work around his eccentricities and selectively ignore his ramblings.

The physics community in the US is a small one by numbers. Musk is scorned by the actual scientists in America.

 

[MT15]

Self-dealing by Musk in the grand Trump tradition. He wants to abandon fiber-optic cables for his StarLink satellites. Which don’t work in a heavy downpour or a heavy snowstorm.

“The technology offered by Starlink, Musk's company, is inferior, wrote Evan Feinman, who had directed the $42.5 billion broadband program for the past three years.

“Stranding all or part of rural America with worse internet so that we can make the world's richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington,” Feinman said.

Key context: Feinman’s lengthy email, totaling more than 1,100 words and shared with POLITICO, is a sign of deep discomfort about the changes underway that will likely transform the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment Program. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick recently pledged a vigorous review of BEAD, with an aim to rip out what he sees as extraneous requirements and remove any preference for particular broadband technologies like fiber.

Musk, who runs the Starlink satellite broadband service, stands to reap a greater share of these subsidies under the revised rules.

Musk and Starlink did not respond to requests for comment.”

Top broadband official exits Commerce Department with sharp Musk warning — POLITICO

“Stranding all or part of rural America with worse internet so that we can make the world's richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington,” Evan Feinman warned.

apple.news

 

[MT15]

At least we can have a little fun at his expense.

 

[Neworleansfan]

Yeah, that’s not a good look. Wishing for the demise of a US business. One with 125,000 employees. One with millions of folks retirement funds. I’d say this will haunt him politically big time. Just run it on a loop.

Holy virtue signaling. Tariffs do a lot of damage to retirement accounts than one single stock and indiscriminately and illegally shutting down government agencies cost a lot more jobs.
On a side note, Cantor Fitgerald upgraded Tesla one the same day the US Commerce Sec pumps it on Fox News. He is Cantor’s former CEO. The same company that now runs by his sons. Some banana republic stuff.

 

[UriUT]

Self-dealing by Musk in the grand Trump tradition. He wants to abandon fiber-optic cables for his StarLink satellites. Which don’t work in a heavy downpour or a heavy snowstorm.

“The technology offered by Starlink, Musk's company, is inferior, wrote Evan Feinman, who had directed the $42.5 billion broadband program for the past three years.

“Stranding all or part of rural America with worse internet so that we can make the world's richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington,” Feinman said.

Key context: Feinman’s lengthy email, totaling more than 1,100 words and shared with POLITICO, is a sign of deep discomfort about the changes underway that will likely transform the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment Program. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick recently pledged a vigorous review of BEAD, with an aim to rip out what he sees as extraneous requirements and remove any preference for particular broadband technologies like fiber.

Musk, who runs the Starlink satellite broadband service, stands to reap a greater share of these subsidies under the revised rules.

Musk and Starlink did not respond to requests for comment.”

Top broadband official exits Commerce Department with sharp Musk warning — POLITICO

“Stranding all or part of rural America with worse internet so that we can make the world's richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington,” Evan Feinman warned.

apple.news

I have fiber and at $100 a month...I get 1 gb unlimited data..christ thats not even the top plan now. Extremely reliable at that rate. Starlink has a max rate of ~250 mb with good weather. Yeah, just like the new version of direct TV that I used to have, it "can" work through a thunderstorm. But the physics of it. Starlink uses radio waves...and it can be blocked by clouds, water vapor, etc in the atmosphere. Sure some signal may pass through, but the speed will be diminished. Just like my old directtv. Yeah my signal gets wacky but it still "works".

And these rural folks gets to have starlink!!! Yay!!!! Even though fiber was offered under biden. We are the land of stupid now.

 

[UriUT]

NASA will be fine without SpaceX. They were fine before SpaceX. With the ISS scheduled to be retired in 5 years, the CCP contract doesn’t have to be renewed.
What exactly do you think SpaceX is doing for NASA?

NASA likes multiple suppliers.

I’m sure they also like this

“SpaceX has a high success rate for its Falcon 9 rockets, with a 99.35%success rate overall, and the Falcon 9 Block 5 has a 99.75% success rate.The Falcon 9 has been launched 463 times over 15 years, resulting in 460 full successes. ”

And the exquisite Dragon Capsules. Didn’t realize it can carry seven passengers.

I don't think your reply to neworleansfan is an appropriate counter argument. He clearly implied that nasa has functioned well before spacex. Nasa sent men to the moon w computing power magnitudes less than the phone I'm holding. They sent probes to mars multiple times before other countries can even orbit a satellite around Mars. They navigated probes to extract samples from asteroids and sent those back to earth. As you can see, nasa can do without spacex.

And as neworleansfan pointed out, nasa has a contract with another firm, let alone rely on traditional avenues that they are still using for deeper space exploration. That hardly means nasa "needs" spacex when plentiful options are available. Sure spacex may be more efficient, but that hardly qualifies as "need" now does it?

It's like China used to buy our soybean crops. Because of trump's trade wars, they don't "need" our crops. there are alternatives even though we can grow them more cheaply.