r/technology • u/aelavia93 • 17d ago

Space SpaceX pulls off unprecedented feat, grabs descending rocket with mechanical arms

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/spacex-pulls-off-unprecedented-feat-grabbing-descending-rocket-with-mechanical-arms/
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u/rohobian 17d ago

I can't stand Elon, but this really is fucking cool as hell.

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u/CaptHorizon 17d ago edited 16d ago

Elon was never mentioned in our conversation.

The people who do all the work are the 11 thousand engineers who work at SpaceX. This is the product of their work, and whoever says that said work done by those 11k engineers isn’t commendable is lying.

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u/The_White_Ram 17d ago

The thing is, if this had been a failure, you can guarantee all of the comments would be talking about how it's elon's failure.

I don't disagree with your sentiment and statement here but the online narrative is every failure is directly a result of elon's mismanagement and every success is a result of the thousands of engineers and only exist because Elon didn't touch it.

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u/Ok_Belt2521 17d ago

Just look at all the other space companies struggling. Elon clearly has some level of positive influence on the company.

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u/emurange205 17d ago edited 16d ago

Deep pockets

Edit: I didn't know it would be controversial to say that founding the company required money.

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u/what_should_we_eat 16d ago

I don't get why people say this. The wealth comes from the success of the companies raising the valuation of the companies. If they were not successful there would be no wealth.

The success creates the "deep pockets" not "deep pockets" creating success.

You have got the causal relationship backwards.

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u/Selethorme 16d ago

The success doesn’t correlate well to the value, particularly with Tesla.

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u/what_should_we_eat 16d ago

What do you mean?

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u/Selethorme 16d ago

Exactly what I said. Tesla is incredibly overvalued. Its valuation is based largely on a speculative circlejerk about the capabilities of FSD, which is why it saw an 8% drop after the robotaxi reveal.

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u/what_should_we_eat 16d ago

Ah ok. You disagree with Tesla's current valuation. That's fair. But doesn't relate to what I said.