I guess there’s a market for truck-sized soapbox cars.

Had me excited there for the first half, ngl…

Convenience and security.

Authenticator apps are still vulnerable to phishing, passkeys are not.

Like, you know he’s not personally involved in the design or manufacture of these things right?

Just don’t look up who made the design changes to stainless steel, aerodynamic flaps or tower capture.

The(y) didn’t pioneer reusable rockets

They did pioneer reusable orbital liquid fueled rockets, closest before that was the space shuttle’s SRBs (solid fuel, dumped and fished out the ocean).

and they’re not cheap either. They’re expensive,

They are incredibly cheap to operate by rocket standards, the reason why they haven’t lowered the pricetag is:

a. Would absolutely be an anti-trust against them if they didn’t stay close to competitors (monopoly by simply being too good is a thing)

b. Capitalism baby, they have no real competitor so they can make a crazy profit (and because of point A they basically have to unless they want to be sued to oblivion).

and they’re floating on government grants

Contracts* They have government contracts. Government requests a service, SpaceX provides the service, SpaceX gets paid, simple as that. They have gotten subsidies to expand Starlink, but every ISP gets that and even then they have been declined it countless times because AT&T, etc. have lobbied against them.

SpaceX s(ti)ll hasn’t done anything hat wasn’t done better long before.

I’m sorry, what other rockets and space capsules can be reused? What other rocket can be returned directly on the launch pad?

They do party hard (wh)en a rocket of theirs explodes, which I never saw NASA do.

Because they see milestones being completed in the testing program, it’s about where it exploded (it was gonna explode either way, planned or unplanned).

They managed to get their super duper new heavy rocket in an uncontrolled spin in low earth orbit! I’m sorry, Noy impressed by results that are less than half of what -again- NASA did in the 60’ and 80’ of the last century.

NASA sent a 50m tall, 9m wide second stage that was designed to be fully reusable with full-flow staged engines and then transferred super-chilled fuel between tanks? Cool! Which system was that? Would love to read about it!

Banned open source software because of security concerns. For password management they require LastPass or that we write them down in a book that we keep on ourselves at all times. Worth noting that this policy change was a few months ago. After the giant breach.

And for extra absurdity: MFA via SMS only.

I wish I was making this up.

No.

You get to break windows and get to freedom.