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SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today

304 points · 367 comments · geox

  1. Quitschquat · · focus · HN ↗
    SpaceX is a master lesson in over promising and under delivering
    1. marcusverus · · focus · HN ↗
      SpaceX deserves a higher caliber of hater. This low effort hate is unworthy.
      1. cubefox · · focus · HN ↗
        He is not polite, but he is not wrong either. Originally, the first orbital flight test should have happened years ago. There have been many delays, though Starship is still years ahead of the competition.
        1. marcusverus · · focus · HN ↗
          SpaceX has a history of promising insanely ambitious technological progress on insanely short schedules, then delivering insanely difficult technological progress, often behind schedule. To bellyache about this--as though it's the timeline that matters and that the delivery of insanely ambitious technological progress is beside the point--is transparent, unserious and tiresome.
      2. Quitschquat · · focus · HN ↗
        We're all kinda tired at this point.
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