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Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? by devmor on Sunday November 06, 2022 @03:46PM (#33496917)
There's nothing comical about it. They went to two different Russian firms to partner with before it was even called SpaceX and were turned down because Elon kept running his mouth on subjects he didn't understand and they lost all confidence in the project.
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Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? by googlryas on Sunday November 06, 2022 @04:35PM (#33497492)
What was he running his mouth about? Crazy stuff like landing boosters back at the pad, or on barges in the middle of the Atlantic?
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Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? by devmor on Sunday November 06, 2022 @07:13PM (#33499273)
No, his plan was to build greenhouses on Mars.
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Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? by googlryas on Sunday November 06, 2022 @07:48PM (#33499582)
Perhaps that's just because he was talking to people who think another literal moonshot was a figurative moonshot.
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Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? by devmor on Monday November 07, 2022 @10:32AM (#33507091)
Er, no. That was his stated goal as a member of the Mars Society's board of directors when these talks happened. He wanted to purchase a Dnepr ICBM and retrofit it for that purpose. When the deal was rejected, he discussed building his own rockets with Michael Griffin.
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Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? by nsxwolf on Sunday November 06, 2022 @03:57PM (#33497056)
That just shows confidence isn't always a predictor of success. They made a bad call, quite obviously.
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Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? by devmor on Sunday November 06, 2022 @07:14PM (#33499284)
No, it does not. His plan was to build greenhouses on mars.

Their rejection of his idea is what inspired the pivot to build rockets instead.

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