Watch rich guy spaff $28m in 11 minutes - live
on the most amateurish live stream I could find
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Tue 20 Jul 2021, 13:49,
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The commentator speaking over everyone is fantastic.
As is the director/engineer constantly turning the wrong volume faders down.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Tue 20 Jul 2021, 14:01,
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Complete car crash from start to end
he's still wittering on now, checking twitter
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Tue 20 Jul 2021, 14:45,
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I switched to the official BO stream for the flight, much less chaotic.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Tue 20 Jul 2021, 16:03,
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"BO stream"
Sounds more musky than bezosy
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Tue 20 Jul 2021, 16:25,
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post landing seems less about getting things right and more about getting in the camera crew
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symptoms include trite "spiritual" epiphanies about a few minutes in space making them realise how important the Earth is
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custard, Tue 20 Jul 2021, 15:10,
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...before recovering and continuing its destruction.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Tue 20 Jul 2021, 15:26,
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clearly never been on ryan air to Ibiza
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Tue 20 Jul 2021, 16:58,
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Oh fuck no, nightmarish
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Tue 20 Jul 2021, 18:19,
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10 minutes of flight time
Doesn't give them long to push round the trolly of nuts and warm cans of Carlsberg
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17 years (and what, $20bn?) of investment and development for this over-engineered sounding rocket.
Meanwhile SpaceX and RocketLab are putting stuff and people into orbit and, supposedly, making money doing it.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Tue 20 Jul 2021, 16:09,
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Given Bezos track record personally i think he is on a longer plain of thought over Musk. (Look at lack of showboating to raise capital investment perhaps as an example).
Musk is Cavalier and courts the press.
Bezos is on a path which is clearly mentally defined and configured.
He also took a Wally and a Daemen to space which is outstanding work in my book.
Taking his little Brother was just family feud gone large spite.
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hoppitygoestotown The temporal displacement occurred exactly, Tue 20 Jul 2021, 19:22,
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Bezos appears to me to be chasing government launch contracts.
i.e. using the technology in order to make money from the status quo.
Musk appears to be chasing a private landing on Mars, using the technology to fund that end goal.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 11:50,
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Musk needs NASA and the US government more generally to fund Starship development
but more crucially he needs government support for the technology to do more than just land at Mars. ISRU is going to need either a submarine-style nuclear reactor (necessitating government licenses and whatnot) or a supermassive solar farm, and there are serious problems launching anywhere near either of those (necessitating a heavy rover and miles of cable to move your power station out of the debris zone).
I don't think SpaceX is actually making any money at the moment, setting up Starlink and Starship and Starbase and the oil rig conversions and so on, while still maintaining the fleet of Dragons and Falcons and everything else.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 15:37,
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Didn't see it. Did it crash into the Sun?
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 20 Jul 2021, 15:55,
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That would have been more interesting
The whole event came across as one big self-congratulatory wank fest, having achieved fuck all bar a rather fancy amusement park ride.
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Varmint, Tue 20 Jul 2021, 17:23,
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