Elon Musk

circling back on this

Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop. NY-DC in 29 mins.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 20, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzXI_ApY4dY

Who gets the Musk Face?

circling back on this

🐦[Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop. NY-DC in 29 mins.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 20, 2017🕸]🐦

"username checks out"

That's generally how the federal gov't works awards verbal contracts - they'll give you a thumbs-up which means "Go for it, you got this!" or a frowny headshake which means nope

username checks out

:D

xp the old system led to a lot of confusion, which is why most modern agencies now conduct contract acquisition via a voice vote, with everyone working on the same floor as the cube where the formal bid was emailed getting a say in the decision during an optional meeting held during the lunch hour on fridays

Starship: The Starship has cleared the tower! An amazing sight as the huge rocket climbs away atop 16 million lbs of thrust (!) generated by the Super Heavy first stage booster's 33 methane-burning Raptor engines

— William Harwood (@cbs_spacenews) April 20, 2023

Starship: Rocket appears to be spenning... and exploded 4 minutes and 2 seconds after launch

— William Harwood (@cbs_spacenews) April 20, 2023

lmao

pic.twitter.com/mK6AuDz91J

— Ivan the K™ (@IvanTheK) April 20, 2023

Good day for everyone to lose their checkmarks

4 minutes and 2.0 seconds

"rapid unscheduled disassembly" incredible new heights in corporate speak

Xpost It got pretty high

BREAKING: SpaceX successfully launched its massive Starship rocket, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built. https://t.co/aGvDQnKXZA

— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 20, 2023

President Kennedy successfully visited Dallas

— Upton Earl Sinclair (@howiehandupme) April 20, 2023

(points, laughs)

*very chris rock voice * ITS SPINNIN

I'm not a space guy, but the reporting on this seems extraordinarily deranged to me

NYT:
"The most powerful rocket ever built got off the launchpad in South Texas, but did not achieve its most ambitious goals on Thursday."

"However, SpaceX has a history of learning from mistakes. The company’s mantra is essentially, “Fail fast, but learn faster.”

Traditional aerospace companies have tried to anticipate and prevent as many failures as possible ahead of time. But that approach takes money and time and can lead to vehicles that are overdesigned. SpaceX instead is more like a Silicon Valley software company — starting with an imperfect product that can be improved quickly.

...

SpaceX, as one of the most valuable privately held companies, possesses a large financial cushion to absorb setbacks, unlike its early days when the first three launches of its original rocket, the small Falcon 1, failed to reach orbit. Mr. Musk scraped together just enough money and parts for a fourth launch attempt. Had it failed, SpaceX would have gone out of business.

It succeeded, and SpaceX has succeeded in almost all of its endeavors since then, even when it sometimes fails at first.

I know I should be cynical about this by now, but wtf

I did manage to get to the bathroom and I successfully defecated, but I didn't quite reach my most ambitious goal of taking down my trousers first.

just a minor systems failure, but the method is spot on - nothing to see here!

isn't SpaceX mostly funded by the federal government?

man imagine if SpaceX was the Challenger and Elon was also in charge then

"successful launch, just some minor sky detritus"

tons of Musk-ites complaining about the lack of nuance in the reporting on the 'explosion', when just about every article I've read expressed what happened pretty accurately and that this was always known as an expected outcome.

i was watching a live stream of this where the announcer went “there goes the future of humanity!”

then 2 minutes later it exploded in the sky https://t.co/66nL3ZdID5

— 🍄😮‍💨 (@CinemaMonsieur) April 20, 2023

i would simply design a rocket that was not expected to explode

announcer technically otm

lol. Musk is obv racist and transphobic and a piece of shit so I don't care to defend him but it's almost like this dude hasn't heard of "4/20" before

Musk always celebrates 4-20 with events,

"Coincidentally" it's is also Hitler's Birthday.https://t.co/zzTab39w3J

— Eric John Diesel (@EricJohnDiesel3) April 20, 2023

it's hilarious that the new blowing up is "a rapid unscheduled disassembly"

expressions that express gratified anticipation:

https://i.imgur.com/dYdAOAy.png

happy bluecheck liberation day you pained motherfucker

Eric John Diesel not an expert in the Sour Diesel.

Dog has some thoughts:

i do not destroy my toys. they simply experience. a rapid unscheduled disassembly. this has nothing to do with me

— Thoughts of Dog® (@dog_feelings) April 20, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQZ-FbCMIrU
The RUDs • (You’re) In a RUD (You gotta get out of it - out of it - out of it - out of it - out of it)

This is Major Lon to Ground Control/I'm here forevermore/and I'm tweeting in my stupid normal way/and my bullshit's very typical toDAYYAYYAAY

kinda shocked to learn that Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly is actually a preexisting term that somehow never went full-on viral. if it had been coined by some establishment grey man in the 60s, it'd be on the level of "we had to destroy this town in order to save it."

THE ROCKET LAUNCH WAS A SUCCESS
PLEASE KINDLY IGNORE THE MESS
AMANDA

Like "terminate with extreme prejudice." (Which I have learned actually means to "use tons of careful judgment"). xp

https://external-preview.redd.it/oiZh5RNj8VGqwtcSnYDq0RKwNmTOS77ESs5-w0VMzEg.jpg?auto=webp&s=3be504b8a8fd1a0b3465e13b6ba8d0f143c8024d

lol. Musk is obv racist and transphobic and a piece of shit so I don't care to defend him but it's almost like this dude hasn't heard of "4/20" before

Why give Musk even a whiff of the benefit of any doubt at this point though. Why *is* he so into 4/20 lolz?

We're getting to orbit today 🚀 pic.twitter.com/xJ9v90QqK6

— 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪𝔢𝔰 (@Grimezsz) April 17, 2023

oh shit was grimes on the rocket?

Her final art performance.

kinda shocked to learn that Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly is actually a preexisting term that somehow never went full-on viral. if it had been coined by some establishment grey man in the 60s, it'd be on the level of "we had to destroy this town in order to save it."

― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Thursday, April 20, 2023

I heard it long ago (pre-SpaceX), and figured there was some humor behind it (even tech peeps have senses of humor).

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/10022/who-coined-the-phrase-rapid-unscheduled-disassembly

hah

he offers that too https://t.co/mkKy1HYHTF

— actioncookbook (@actioncookbook) April 20, 2023

Elon press conference post rocket blowup pic.twitter.com/c223i7VTxS

— Brendan James (@deep_beige) April 20, 2023

bro I can't fucking imagine what I'd do if I was fighting for my life trying to squash a news story about me and my dad went to the press like "not only is it completely true, make sure you write up the part where my grown son was crying about his fancy bike" https://t.co/BpCS7H1o5z

— Takes Of Vesperia (@coolranchzaku) April 20, 2023

A new Logan Roy has entered the arena.

That emerald mine is burning up

A dramatic 24 hours for Elon Musk has slashed his fortune by almost $13 billion, his biggest wealth wipeout this year https://t.co/E4imsTZ28r

— Bloomberg Wealth (@wealth) April 20, 2023