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[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 190 points 1 year ago

Can they really be called spaceships if they never get to space?

[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 113 points 1 year ago

Even worse - he named his space vessels 'Starship' - implying that they have the ability to travel between stars.

They will study this man's narcissism in future history classes alongside Trump. The era of the ego.

[-] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 25 points 1 year ago

Even worse worse, he named prior projects after Culture ship names. Whose author despised him.

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

I mean by that definition, Voyager is a starship, eventually.

[-] moody@lemmings.world 21 points 1 year ago

Voyager I and II are probes, not ships.

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

A ship can transport people or goods, and I argue that data is a type of good.

[-] Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Friendship transports a type of good.

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[-] resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee 45 points 1 year ago

Technically they’re fireworks.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Steamships don't sail on steam, but they're called steamships anyway because they have steam in them. Elon Musk's spaceships don't use up every bit of volume contained within them, therefore they contain space.

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[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

The last one got into space ...and then caught on fire.

[-] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Which is impressive, as fire usually needs excess oxygen available.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Rockets carry oxygen (oxidizers) with them. It's kinda how they work.

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[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 157 points 1 year ago

"Do you think that foreign students might have materially contributed to the creation of your spaceships?"

[-] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

If this isn't the kind of stuff you're asking. You're doing it wrong.

[-] Snowclone@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

The press is very deeply beholden to wealth.

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[-] gaja@lemm.ee 140 points 1 year ago

You know that you're in the right when you're ashamed to share your opinion publicly.

[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

You're not wrong but we've already had enough fascists not feeling ashamed to air heinous ideas publicly in the US. Shame isn't a good, universal metric because some people don't feel it and will weaponize that.

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 112 points 1 year ago

“Free speech absolutist”

[-] Halosheep@lemm.ee 42 points 1 year ago

To be fair, free speech should include the freedom not to speak.

[-] Pnut@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

Musk isn't playing fair though.

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

He should fucking exercise it more

[-] Snowclone@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I agree he doesn't have to answer, but if you're supposed to be REALLY into free speech which largely means freedom of the press, you probably wouldn't be into giving the press huge stipulations on what questions they are allowed to ask or not.

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[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 107 points 1 year ago

This Exchange happened because MUSK is a BIG STRONG MAN and NOT a Snowflake!

in that case: what happened to your face? Did you fall and hit your head on one of your spaceships?

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 32 points 1 year ago

If a billionaire you know is suffering from mysterious falls, it's important to let someone know so they can laugh at them too

[-] D_C@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Or lead him to an open window...

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[-] boaratio@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago

He's such a whiny bitch.

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

FYI, this is the actual transcript, not a meme.

[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

"Please stick to making me look good"

[-] logos@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

No. Well... No.

[-] graycube@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

You can have any color you want as long as it is black.

[-] crawancon@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago

I think you meant white....

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[-] Redex68@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago
[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

They're correct. But neither is he a space or engineering expert, so maybe we should just ignore his opinions on those things entirely as well.

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[-] Eww@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

He isn't a government expert either, so why TF is he fucking with our government?

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[-] PartyAt15thAndSummit@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 year ago

"So... about your spaceships. Would you allow foreign kids on them?"

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[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Guys let's try to keep the discussion about Rampart

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[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Nazi coward gonna Nazi cower.

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

This was somewhat gutsy of the reporter to ask, but when Elmo dodged like that he should have said, "Well I guess that's the interview over. We'll just air this clip and get about 10 million views. Should pay for our time here nicely." And then left the Nazi prick to sit and stew in his own shit.

[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Uhoh someliar hates being fact checked

[-] wildcardology@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

All he knows about spaceships he learned from "The Dictator" movie.

https://youtube.com/shorts/pTKCQQbeY88

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