Technology

59608 readers

4049 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

1404

Elon Musk is a pigeon CEO, 'he comes, sh*ts all over us, and goes', says former Tesla manager (electrek.co)

submitted 7 months ago by skyspydude1@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

116 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It sure is questionable, but so far each test got further than the last one, so while I wouldn't be making any bets on it working, I'm not going to discount it either. People said the same thing about reusable rockets and now it's no big deal. They might have a chance, as long as the president of SpaceX manages to keep Musk away from it.

[–] foggenbooty@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Anything can make progress if it's within the realm of possibility and you throw enough resources at it.

My issue with Starship is that it's not really good for any of the things Musk has promised it for. It's a heavy lift rocket that has not yet proven capable of surviving flight. Best case it can be used to get materials up to space, but used as a lander or a long distance ship? No way. It's just not designed that way. Too heavy, too unsafe, too inefficient, too complicated.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Sure, it's a reasonable take.