• nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    Landing vertically is the problem, size is just a question of scope. It was a testbed. The project got shitcanned because of lack of funding, if the same amount of money had been dumped into it as into Spacex then vertical landing rockets would have been in production much earlier. All Musk has done is be the conduit through which money flows.

    • Chronicon [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      3 months ago

      Nobody here is giving any credit to Musk. Saying “hey this is a nice building, the engineers and architects and builders really did a good job”, is not giving any credit to my landlord, we all know he’s just a guy with money. Check your reading comprehension. We all hate Musk, he’s up there with the worst of the worst, I get it

      Yes, this probably could have been done much earlier, and if it was we’d say the same things about the engineers and crew that brought that hypothetical project over the finish line. It’s cool to see things progress

      edit: also I said proportions not size. Tall shit wants to fall over more than short stubby wide shit

    • AnarchoAnarchist [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      3 months ago

      Absolutely. But the engineers that worked on that project and the engineers that work on the falcon 9 both deserve our praise.

      The workers at spacex have done some amazing things despite all the hurdles in their way.