• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    Now please all aboard the SpaceX rocket everybody! A 6 barrel revolver with a single bullet is added for a fun game of Russian roulette. Just to out your mind at ease, the gun is not the biggest threat to your life.

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      5 days ago

      SpaceX hasn’t killed anyone, incidentally it’s also the company musk has the least power over.

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        8 hours ago

        And? That is the bar it needs to cross to not be a steaming bad of turds?

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          5 hours ago

          Not, really, it would need to be better, by every measure, than all of its competition. And SpaceX is.

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        5 days ago

        I wouldn’t necessarily call those two facts “incidental”. I’d be pretty confident calling it “cause and effect”.

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        5 days ago

        Tesla is publicly traded and has a board of directors. I believe Musk has more than half the votes though

        SpaceX is privately owned by him and Gwynne Shotwell only serves as COO because Musk is happy with her in that role

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          Tesla engineers are limited in their pursuit of whatever weird shit Elon wants by pretty lose car safety standards. SpaceX has to comply with two governments, a dozen other companies, and hundreds of insurance companies safety standards.