Re:SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Project at the Boca Chica Lau...
by baq on Thursday October 26, 2023 @01:38AM
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> Shoutout to Gwynne Shotwell
She’s the low key (on this forum anyway) hero of human space flight in this decade. Absolute unit.
Re:SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Project at the Boca Chica Lau...
by shiroiuma on Thursday October 26, 2023 @06:30AM
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Unfortunately, many times people who do great things turn out to be awful people, or have some really problematic views. Henry Ford revolutionized automobile manufacturing with the assembly line, for instance, but was also infamous for being horribly racist and anti-Semitic. Thomas Edison invented or helped facilitate the invention of many things (useful lightbulb with carbon filament, movie projector, etc.), but was generally known as having a lousy personality and suing everyone for IP stuff, resulting in the movie industry moving to California to get away from him.
Can you imagine what things would have been like in Ford's time if he had the internet and Twitter to spread his views?
There was a man who was massively effective in getting multiple once-in—a-generation revolutionary companies of the ground by sheer grind and lots of luck (yes..both). We should thank that man of yore.
But that man is now a convenient stooge for the right wing and a pointless edgelord whiling away his money on pointless projects.
Both of these can be true. It’s okay.
Here’s to hoping Tesla, SpaceX and all his other world changing companies succeed inspite of him and let him cement his complicated legacy.
Go Starship Super Heavy!!
PS: Shoutout to Gwynne Shotwell for being a massively effective administrator for this incredible rocketship of a company.