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NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission

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404 points voxleone | 5 comments | 21 Oct 25 12:58 UTC | HN request time: 1.094s | source
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BolexNOLA ◴[21 Oct 25 13:29 UTC] No.45655541[source]▶
> Elon Musk, the boss of SpaceX, fired back: "SpaceX is moving like lightning compared to the rest of the space industry. Moreover, Starship will end up doing the whole Moon mission. Mark my words."

Still marking his words on self-driving vehicles so I guess we can add this to the list. What’s the casualty count so far on that one btw?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autono...

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boxed ◴[21 Oct 25 13:36 UTC] No.45655647[source]▶
You need to keep two things in your mind at the same time:

Elon Musk sometimes say things that are true.

Elon Must sometimes say things that are not true.

In this case, it's the first one.

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askl ◴[21 Oct 25 13:48 UTC] No.45655767[source]▶
> Elon Musk sometimes say things that are true.

Has this ever happened in the last 10 years?

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destitude ◴[21 Oct 25 14:03 UTC] No.45655960[source]▶
Catching of a booster which everyone else thought was the stupidest craziest thing ever and they did it on first try.
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1. BolexNOLA ◴[21 Oct 25 17:23 UTC] No.45658562[source]▶
If people can constantly attack Steve Jobs for “just being an idea guy” while Wozniak did all the work, I think we can all agree that Elon Musk deserves (at most) limited credit for the amazing engineering achievement one of his several companies/projects accomplished. Especially given the overlap with his several-months-long stint being a Trump groupie and proudly taking a chainsaw to the US government.

Yes his vision and direction matters. But let’s not act like the dude did that himself. Especially while he was so distracted having his nose up Trump’s proverbial rear.

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2. boxed ◴[22 Oct 25 13:39 UTC] No.45668987[source]▶
And yet, no other rocket company has done anything close. And no other car company has made such radical differences in the market as Tesla.

Again: you must be able to keep two things in your head at once. I understand that Elon is an absolute ass, but also that he has made several incredible (literally!) things happen. Give credit where credit is due, and give blame where blame is do. Don't confuse the two.

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3. BolexNOLA ◴[22 Oct 25 13:57 UTC] No.45669262[source]▶
> you must be able to keep two things in your head at once

You need to stop saying this it is incredibly rude and patronizing. I specifically pointed this out the first time you said it, so I can only assume you’re doing it intentionally at this point out of disrespect.

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4. boxed ◴[22 Oct 25 19:54 UTC] No.45674307{3}[source]▶
I'm doing it because you are failing to do so. Blatantly.
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5. BolexNOLA ◴[22 Oct 25 19:57 UTC] No.45674336{4}[source]▶
You can’t talk to people like this and I won’t be engaging with you further.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html