incredibly bad take

it's a data point among others that SpaceX is doing something right. It's a much better argument also than the "rocket man bad" takes that envelop every Musk-related topic on HN

NASA has also existed for 80 years and conducted far more manned missions than spaceX has.

The intent was not to take a stab at NASA but rather provide a dumb counterargument to the parent poster's immature rant which would still make more sense than his positioning. Juvenile and counterproductive in retrospect.

NASA has had a failure once in every 55 manned flights, SpaceX has had 10 manned flights

I suppose in the interest of steelmanning your argument, it seems to me there’s a number of NASA deaths you’re omitting.

Challenger and Columbia each had seven crew members. Apollo I had three. Then there were a number of astronaut candidates who were killed in the line of duty and probably should be counted in your death toll.

On the other hand, how many manned missions has NASA launched, and how many has SpaceX done to date? Gotta guess there’s an order of magnitude difference there.