- SpaceX’s eighth Starship launch ended in a “rapid unscheduled disassembly”.
- The company reportedly lost communication with the rocket before it began tumbling and eventually, blew up.
- The Super Heavy Rocket returned to Earth safely and was caught by Mechzilla.
I wonder if Elon has driven off a good chunk of his quality SpaceX employees yet?
Despite what he may say at times. He’s not necessary for SpaceX operations. Gwynne Shotwell runs the day to day company, and they aren’t public so no need to say anything publicly for headlines like he does with Tesla.
Sure, but that is a valid concern nonetheless. One major reason for the early successes of SpaceX and Tesla was their ability to attract top talent. I don’t think anyone with any self respect wants to work there these days.
Could say the same about Facebook, and Google. Yet they don’t have any issues funding talent.
Money makes the world go round, at least most of the time. And enough of it can make just about everyone shove their principles into a box.
Meta and Google throw money at people as compensation for making them build unethical, immoral stuff.
SpaceX has traditionally paid far less, relying on “we’re building fucking reusable rockets”, which in normal circumstances, to a lot of engineers, is pretty rad, and kind of its own selling point.
Well, privacy invasion and eccentricity is one thing. Overt fascism and staging a coup are on a whole other level.
The topic of conversation is how tons of people don’t want to be associated with anything eel-on-musk is doing anymore after he more or less took the mask off, did his “weird hand motion (twice in a row, on national television, one of which was in the direction of orangeboi)”, and then started (and is continuing) to take a chainsaw to silly little government agencies like the CDC, NOAA, CFPB, Social Security Administration, and so on.
Most smart people don’t like dumb and evil people. I would not at all be shocked to learn SpaceX is facing some serious brain drain.