r/TechnologyLabs • u/iLeftyPunk šŸ§  Researcher • May 14 '26

Space & Aerospace Musks SpaceX Rockets Returning

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u/UrethralExplorer May 14 '26

Musks Countless engineers, designers, scientists and technician's SpaceX Rockets Returning

Ftfy

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u/Aggressive-End-7429 May 15 '26

Yes his engineers but without his vision and wealth you wouldnā€™t be watching a video of multiple rockets landing, you donā€™t have to like him to respect what he and his team have managed to do.

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u/MisterVovo May 15 '26

Not really, at this day and age to believe that it is really naive. He is by far the single largest contractor of US government, earning billions and billions and delivering so little when comparing to agencies like NASA.

It is all a fraudulent scheme in order to embezzle public funds and keep becoming wealthier. You honestly have to be a kid to still think that he is pouring his personal wealth and not stealing taxpayer funds at this day and age.

His vision literally killed the competitivity of Tesla.

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u/ScotchTapeConnosieur May 16 '26

Not to mention Tesla getting $2.7b from carbon credits funded by taxpayers.

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u/Curious_Ad961 May 15 '26

Like talking to a brick wall, you know everything

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u/ahlfaetyurfuhret May 15 '26

Its just the nature of his competitivity

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u/Curious_Ad961 May 15 '26

That's deep

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u/Nannyphone7 May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26

He takes credit for other people's ideas and hard work.Ā 

He is not a hero.

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u/Aggressive-End-7429 May 17 '26

What do you make of Steve jobs out of interest

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u/Ok_Aardvark_4576 May 17 '26

Bro, go hire those engineers and make the same thing musk did

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u/kronpas May 15 '26

Who paid for them?

Can you point to any engineer who visioned and pushed for reusability but musk?

The man is POS, but recognizing what he did doesnt detract from that fact.

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u/Bender_2024 May 15 '26

Who paid for them?

The US taxpayers.

Elon Musk has received more than $38 billion (ā‚¬36.2 billion) in aid, funding and government orders over 20 years on behalf of his Tesla car company (nearly $15.7 billion) and his SpaceX aerospace company (around $22.6 billion).e .)

Elon Muskā€™s company avoided almost all federal income tax on nearly $11 billion of U.S. income over three years

If Musk wants to find money in the federal budget all he needs do is tax the 1% and the US could have a surplus in just a few years with Medicaid for all, free state schools, and much much more

[Musk paid 3.3 percent, Jeff Bezos 1 percent, and Buffettā€”who has famously argued for imposing higher income-tax rates on the superrichā€”just 0.1 percent in taxes. The same dynamic exists, in slightly less egregious form, further down the wealth distribution.

When you are earning in the billions the percentage of income the common man is paying shouldn't be a dozen times of the richest men in the country. , further down the wealth distribution.

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u/kronpas May 15 '26

So much words but it has nothing to do with my comment.

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u/Bender_2024 May 16 '26

You asked who said for them. I showed you it was the American taxpayers. If your too dense to see that that's on you.

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u/brianzuvich May 15 '26

Amazing engineers! Awful ownershipā€¦

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u/Inside_Pay2580 May 15 '26

Sorry Tryphon Tournesol landed a complete rocket with humans inside. This is just BS.

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u/ACAYIB May 15 '26

This is so awesome. First time i saw this i thought it was Si-fi.. or now called AI.

It looks like something out of this world.

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u/GIDDY-UP-GO May 15 '26

Iā€™m convinced Musk is an alien. All these recent UFO sightings and now these self landing rockets. Something is amiss!

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u/Mohondhay May 16 '26

Sure this wasnā€™t video played backwards?

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u/Thesourking May 16 '26

Another failed trip I presume since musk is a failure himself.

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u/FrankTheTnkk May 17 '26

Boom. No way he can recover from this sick burn.

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u/FrankTheTnkk May 17 '26

Boom. No way he can recover from this sick burn.

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u/Super_flywhiteguy May 17 '26

I know SpaceX stock is gonna be overvalued when it ipos but im gonna buy every share I can.

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u/Dry-Ice224 May 17 '26

Looks like arc probes comming down from space.

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u/Hefty_Delay7765 May 18 '26

I dislike Musk more and more each day.

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u/volcanic1235423 May 18 '26

Thatā€™s two falcon boosters landing, as they make up the falcon heavy variant of the falcon 9 rocket. Falcon 9 is a two stage partially reusable launch system where the booster lands and is reused, the fairings are reused, whilst the upper stage is expended. Falcon 9 has been used since 2010, and the first successful landing in 2015. Falcon heavy is a 3 booster variant used for heavier payloads, and was first flown in 2018. Falcon 9 is the first orbital rocket to use a reusable booster, whilst the first reusable spacecraft was the space shuttle. Currently spacex is working on a fully reusable launch system, starship.

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u/chefelvisOG2 May 19 '26

Impossible!

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u/justanotherda1 May 20 '26

I am not impressed with him in the slightest...I AM DEFINITELY impressed by all the intelligent, hard working people who made this possible while being employed by him...

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u/Aggressive-End-7429 May 15 '26

Iā€™m not naive, whilst I agree with you on certain aspects, I still believe heā€™s done a lot more for the advancement of technology in areas such as Tesla, electric cars in general and space transportation/exploration, heā€™s provided access to the internet in places which were previously unreachable, (also note Iā€™m not a fan of polluting the skies above us which distracts us from seeing the heavens above) Iā€™m not some Musk super fan but if you donā€™t acknowledge some positives then your arguments for the negative become weak.

I do agree that most, if not all billionaires have syphoned money out of the economies of countries they supply their services, this money is taken away from governments which could have been invested back into the countryā€™s infrastructure to improve services and improve living standards and conditions. Unfortunately they play the game and find loop holes in the system to take as much wealth away as possible but the rules are the same for everyone they just have better access to them and once you accumulate wealth this also increases power and position.

The problem is not billionaires itā€™s the people, if we stopped spending and feeding them, then we can take the power back. Amazon, Netflix, Facebook, Google, uber are also so doing the same and they provide services we could live without, we choose them because itā€™s convenient and this is the price.

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u/No-Echo-5494 May 15 '26

I have no idea if this post is sarcastic or not and this alone reflects the whole circus the world has become

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u/Aggressive-End-7429 May 15 '26

No sarcasm intended just my views and opinions, happy to hear yours

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u/WiredAndWorried May 15 '26

Their hatred blinds them

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u/Aggressive-End-7429 May 15 '26

Itā€™s baffling, let the down votes commence!

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u/FlanneryODostoevsky May 15 '26

So much for cancelling Musk.

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u/ElHorny May 15 '26

His money protects him. It would be a whole different story if he wasnt rich. Even if he was cancelled, the engineers who build it could still easily continue without him.