- SpaceX’s eighth Starship launch ended in a “rapid unscheduled disassembly”.
- The company reportedly lost communication with the rocket before it began tumbling and eventually, blew up.
- The Super Heavy Rocket returned to Earth safely and was caught by Mechzilla.
Could say the same about Facebook, and Google. Yet they don’t have any issues funding talent.
Money makes the world go round, at least most of the time. And enough of it can make just about everyone shove their principles into a box.
Meta and Google throw money at people as compensation for making them build unethical, immoral stuff.
SpaceX has traditionally paid far less, relying on “we’re building fucking reusable rockets”, which in normal circumstances, to a lot of engineers, is pretty rad, and kind of its own selling point.
Well, privacy invasion and eccentricity is one thing. Overt fascism and staging a coup are on a whole other level.