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A comment on Elon Musk’s plan to build one Starship a week and settle Mars. Parent comment

Re:Elon Musk’s plan to build one Starship a week and settle ... by BigBubbleButt on Thursday March 05, 2020 @11:09PM (#22500921)
An engineer was imprisoned because another engineer was spiteful. You don't consider this a dumb political decision? I consider the default judgment of "everyone goes to the gulags" to be shitty governance, and also quite stupid.

My understanding is Korolev's health greatly declined because of his time while imprisoned, and had he never had to endure it he likely would have lived much longer.

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Re:Elon Musk’s plan to build one Starship a week and settle ... by thesmok on Friday March 06, 2020 @06:16AM (#22502716)
I must point out that username ilyich is a transliterated name likely referring to Lenin – real name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. So ilyich seems to be a fan of USSR.
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Re:Elon Musk’s plan to build one Starship a week and settle ... by BigBubbleButt on Friday March 06, 2020 @10:18AM (#22504211)
That much is obvious. It doesn't mean I don't want to hear his perspective though.
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