• Midnight Wolf@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What if - hear me out - all the employees at SpaceX are working together to intentionally drive up costs by using it as a playground for wacky off-the-wall ideas that wouldn’t get funding elsewhere, but because they are all in it together, management has no idea because everyone is backing and vetting everyone else? And so people keep pumping money into the company, so the staff just keep on with the status quo. For example, wouldn’t you want to see if a spaceship with a rocket attached suspiciously similarly to a foreskin can make it to orbit - and should it retract in stages, or as one swift break-away movement? Need I remind you that this project isn’t on your dime? Mmmhm, that’s what I thought. Now let’s build the cock rocket.

    Maybe the smartest people in the room are the ones we least expect.

    • vexikron@lemmy.zip
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      1 year ago

      This is not impossible, but the problem is that Blue Origin has already created the most phallic possible rocket that actually works.

      So at best SpaceX goes bankrupt in pursuit of sloppy seconds.