Genius Takes Flight

We expect explosive results!

Fuck Elon Musk, Fuck Privatized Flight Control, Fuck the entire Trump Admin
But in all fairness, they're intentionally trying to build rockets with cheaper materials, them blowing up is expected for a very long time going forward, and is definitely worth it in the long run. If somebody like Blue Origin were in charge, the fucking Natural Gas rocket company, that would be much worse.
- the fucking Natural Gas rocket company
  What does this mean? Starship uses methane too, you know?
  
  Importantly they use methane because you can generate methane on Mars(especially if you bring some spare hydrogen).
  
  SpaceX uses natural gas on anything equipped with a Raptor engine, this is true, but it wasn't the company's primary accomplishment or field of research like with Blue Origin.
  It looks like starting with BE-7 Blue Origin started using Hydrogen and are now researching potential nuclear fuel options, I hadn't even heard of these engines before today, it looks like they've never been used outside of testing phase, so I suppose I might have been overly critical.
- People occasionally bring up how Canada's ATC is private. Those people always forget there are still strict government contracts with tight regulations. There's no huge influence on "good" healthcare and benefits as an excuse for lower pay and QOL for the same job in the US. Comparing working in the *US to Canadian private sector is comparing apples to shit oranges.
- Trump appointed Bridenstone his first term. There was an explicit goal of privatizing space exploration and moving programs from in-house NASA (“failure is not an option”) to the wonders of letting Musk and Bezos light our tax dollars on fire.
  
  If Trump keeps this shit up I might have to stop blaming everything bad on Ronald Reagan, soon.

Hey now, rockets are hard.
(Elon tweeted that in case you didn't know)
- As opposed to air traffic control which is notoriously easy /s

Genius takes flight
- Spirit airlines! Yeah that's the spirit!
  No, I meant your spirit! There goes a piece, and another piece! Your spirit has so many god dammed pieces dude! Look at all those pieces!

hey we're gonna get a lot of great data from all the crashes

I’ll take- “Exploding Airplanes” for $400, Alex.

Isn't one of the other options a company that left 2 people in space?
- It's almost like corps are in favor of profit over people.
  
  In Boeing's case, they appear to be neither for people nor profit.
- Are they back yet?

- Okay.
  I would not like someone that treats everything like a test flight program to run the FAA, or in fact run anything that's not a test flight program.