Elon Musk now owns 9.2% of twitter...update.. will soon be the sole owner as Board of Directors accepts his purchase offer

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Oh god...Tucker is moving there.

****bUT wE StIlL dON'T kNOw ELON'S pOlITIcS****

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Vic

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Its pretty evident Elon has contracted with woke mind virus.

How long before he appears on infowars?
Lol at the guy who bought twitter for $44bln accusing anyone of public manipulation. Wtf..

As for what he's replying to, I'd be willing to bet that if the typical muskbot stopped saying 'good shoot' every time a white person murdered a black person, the MSM would have a lot less racism to report on.
 
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And for anyone still claiming the 4/20 Starship launch wasn't a complete disaster for SpaceX, the Common Sense Skeptic has a video for you.
I'm willing to wager it'll be a long time before Starship is allowed to launch from Boca Chica again, if ever.
 

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Seriously hate on Elon for being a dick but the mental gymnastics for some of this stuff is insane.

I'm willing to wager your completely wrong, what do you want to wager ?
 

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Seriously hate on Elon for being a dick but the mental gymnastics for some of this stuff is insane.

I'm willing to wager your completely wrong, what do you want to wager ?
It's all about your feels isn't it? Would you like to pick the escrow?
 

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You can always tell a cult member by how when you point out how they are factually wrong they will instead make it personal and emotional.
Musk and SpaceX didn't violate all their agreements with the FAA and the State of TX with that launch, it's because anyone who dares speak that fact must be filled with hate.
The launch itself wasn't a ridiculous expression of Musk's extreme positivity, he just needs more time to re-learn everything that NASA already knew in 1961.
And we need to allow this from the vaperware saleman clown who owns one of the world's largest media companies while at the same time benefiting 100x more in taxpayer monies than any of the media outlets he labels as "state supported media."

Yeah..
 
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Yaknow, I too was
So SpaceX will not launch from Boca Chica with Starship NET July 2024?
Sure. But I didn't say SpaceX, I said Starship.

Edit: my bad, I did say SpaceX earlier, but I meant Starship. Apologies. However, I add this caveat because it makes an obvious difference.

Look dude, I'm just an unhappy as anyone else to find out that Musk is Harold Hill instead of DD Harriman, but we gotta get over it and stop handing the taxpayers' money over to this Harold Hill pretending to be DD Harriman.
 
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Oh god...Tucker is moving there.

****bUT wE StIlL dON'T kNOw ELON'S pOlITIcS****

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Lol ... Can't imagine all the Carlson 70 plus boomers trying to figure out how to use Twitter on their TV. Trying to make an app that streams Twitter to a TV will be hella costly. Time for everyone with a brain that actually stays on Twitter to just block him. I wonder how Tucker is going to get paid? Can you monetize live tweets? Twitter isn't like YouTube.
 

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You do know that site isn't ran by NASA, right?
Even worse than waking up from Musk's faux futurism was the realization that his faux libertarianism is the same as any Russian oligarch. His whole (uninherited) fortune came from the govt, either through contracts, subsidies, or monetarily policy. The unbelievable audacity of Musk's lies is what makes people believe him. That's the only rational explanation for it.
 

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You do know that site isn't ran by NASA, right?
Knew that over 10+ years ago when I first came across the site. I have found it over the last decade to have high quality articles about Space and make a good faith effort to get it right the first time even if that means delaying the release of a article. The Forums themselves are also a great source of information. I love some of the threads in their "historical spaceflight" section.
 

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Yaknow, I too was

Sure. But I didn't say SpaceX, I said Starship.

Edit: my bad, I did say SpaceX earlier, but I meant Starship. Apologies. However, I add this caveat because it makes an obvious difference.

Look dude, I'm just an unhappy as anyone else to find out that Musk is Harold Hill instead of DD Harriman, but we gotta get over it and stop handing the taxpayers' money over to this Harold Hill pretending to be DD Harriman.

I knew what you meant, SpaceX launching the Starship launch vehicle(Full stack with SuperHeavy Booster) out of the Boca Chica launch site.

I would rather hand over money to a aerospace company bidding Firm Fixed price contracts than the open ended Cost-Plus contracts that are handed out to Boeing.

National Security Space Launch and NASA would really be screwed right now with the Russian invasion of Ukraine if SpaceX hadn't been able to provide alternative launch services to the ISS with Crew Dragon and Falcon-9/Falcon Heavy for launching US NSSL payloads that didn't depend on Russian hardware. You can thank SpaceX for that. SpaceX's ability to provide a high level of services to NASA and the US DOD is well proven with timely, cost effective and reliable launch services.
 
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Yaknow, I too was

Sure. But I didn't say SpaceX, I said Starship.

Edit: my bad, I did say SpaceX earlier, but I meant Starship. Apologies. However, I add this caveat because it makes an obvious difference.

Look dude, I'm just an unhappy as anyone else to find out that Musk is Harold Hill instead of DD Harriman, but we gotta get over it and stop handing the taxpayers' money over to this Harold Hill pretending to be DD Harriman.

I'll take that bet. $1K?
 

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It's all about your feels isn't it? Would you like to pick the escrow?
if you call logic and statements by spacex "feels" then yes its all about my feels.
only YouTube hyperbole is fact these days.

That video is so bad its not even funny. I made it 1 minute and 30 seconds in before i had to turn it off because it was obvious where it was going, and frankly its intellectually dishonest.

1. you have many statements from spacex saying what the goals for the first launch is , this "expert" invents his own to fit his own narrative.

2. launch platform is fine
Yes the concert underneath the rocket got annihilated and sent everywhere and thats not ideal but its hardly catastrophic
it was unexpected as they had done a full static fire ( aka full thrust ) on the pad without issue
The damaged tank farm only houses water so significantly easier to repair/ replace then , pressurised propellent or oxidizer

if you look at the spacex comments post launch , they said.
1. They wanted to be gentile to the engines and hydraulics and limit movement of propellent so they slowly throttled up the engines which put more load on the pad
2. There not exactly sure why it happened as there was no damage from static fire , they think maybe they compressed the soil/sand underneath the concreate which lead to the failure
3. Next starship launch they will go straight to full throttle and the hydraulics for gimble are replaced with actuators so they will clear the pad much faster.
4. They will have the flame shield in place for the next launch

So for the video to be so completely wrong while talking so matter of fact on the first two points he made you will have to excuse me if i dont give a fuck about what some rando youtube dickhead says.

There was actually one thing that Spacex weren't very happy with/proper problem they need to fix and they have come out and said it. It look 40 seconds from command issue for self destruct to self destruct occurring and that needs to be fixed.

So to your wager whats your definition of "long time" spacex still want to do 4 more starship launches this year and only the abort issue will drive any changes to the next rocket being launched.
 
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So for the video to be so completely wrong
I don't know.... I am no expert, but with the forces involved, a diverter of some kind is necesary. Soundwaves will pound the rocket if the base under the rocket will be flat. Those idiots at NASA had to figure this out by a lot of trial and error, but they did it 50 years ago, we don't need to reinvent the wheel if someone did it already. Just the stubborness of a individual makes it hard. He even modified the shape of the rocket tip to make it cooler instead of the most efficient. Just because. These repeated "just because" made this launch as it was, I am sure without his valuable input things would have fared much better.
 
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I've watched a number of people do that in the last 5 years. It's scary as hell. I had some friends in some gaming communities I'm part of just start to dive and never pulled up. Went up from being a little cringy and openly right leaning. To attending "child sex trafficking awareness rallies" (Hello Qanon) to just outright lunacy and outrage of mask mandates and eventually vaccines.

Just like a bunch of lemmings over a cliff.

All the people I knew like that were already headed there before the pandemic. Weirdly most of them seemed to have STFU during the pandemic. I'm not sure if I should be more or less worried though.

LMAO scroll through some of @Red Squirrel 's tweets, that dude has gone over the edge.

He's always been batshit crazy, he just found the cesspit where he can spew his dipshittery into the void with no repercussions and so now he's acting ballsy. He's like an even lamer ginger Ben Shapiro. Guess it was due to how he's attracting hot single women in his area, who knew there were that many hotties looking to bang tonight!?!?!
 

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  1. SpaceX needs to prove to the FAA that they understand and have fixed the issues with the flight termination system before flying Starship again
  2. Pad repairs / upgrades including a flame trench / diverter / sound suppression system are probably required before launching again.

How long it takes to accomplish those will be how long it takes to launch from there again.

The above is my personal opinion and not based on anything else.
 
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