I have to admit that my enthusiasm for anything SpaceX is doing has absolutely crashed due to Musk’s insanity and all the disgusting insider dealing they’re getting regularly involved in these last few months.

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s such a tragedy. I’ve gone from fanboy who watches every single launch to “meh”.

The nazis essentially created our first space program, looks like it’s happening again.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yep, exactly.

I remember the double-return of the first F9H boosters (that one-two sonic boom 🤯) and watching them land side-by-side. I remember watching the successive starship iterations get closer and closer to landing, then iterate on the reentry effort, and watching plasma partially eat through one of the stabilizers without fully wrecking it on a fucking livestream. THAT was wild. And it was the most excited I’ve been about science and engineering I’ve been in a long time.

And now I simply cannot separate the fact that the company is owned and run by the guy who did a seig heil to the fascist authoritarian when he took office, and who is now actively helping tear apart the very institutions that set SpaceX up for success - amongst fucking everything else in this country that has ever given us a competitive advantage. It’s heartbreaking and deeply infuriating.