Ohhh, thanks 👍 That changes things a bit 🙂

It would be nice if Lemmy, kbin, etc. could be a bit more balanced and not go into complete shitstorm mode each time something that relates to Elon Musk is mentioned.

Agreed - WTF was that about - nothing happened to any of the cars, it was racing.

Perez 😑

Rare mistake by Alonso…

4 laps behind safety car, then rolling start.

That’s awesome - he would fook smash his way through 😁

~5 minutes to start - hoping for a standing start 🤞

I might have been lacking coffee when I wrote my first comment 🙂 I re-wrote it in a later comment.

SpaceX and the other big space companies wouldn't exist without NASA and/or the military. NASA have sent quite some money towards SpaceX - I think NASA is quite satisfied with their investement.

You can find videos with him discussing rocket engines in details - he’s spent years working together with a lot of brilliant car and rocket engineers. He (again, not alone, of course) somehow managed to build a successful car company and a successful Space company. Both things are by all accounts very difficult. Not likely to be done by a stupid person.

I fully agree he’s a jerk and I would never want to work for him, but that doesn’t mean he’s stupid or that I can’t be impressed by what SpaceX has achieved.

Yes, I’m fully aware of it. Very cool, but it never got any further than the prototype stage AFAIK - SpaceX made it work and has lowered the price to orbit considerably and the rest of the industry is scrambling to catch up.

Scientists are really looking forward to Starship because of the incredible potential it provides. If SpaceX manages to get it working, it’ll likely change space exploration in a massive way. I find that quite exciting.

Of course he didn’t do it himself, but according to people that actually worked closely with him, he’s not exactly stupid and actually knows quite a bit about both.

Why he’s behaving so stupidly and handling Twitter so badly, I have no idea - he’s really a jerk.