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Tighclops posted:He's not a genius or a visionary, he's just the first geek with enough money to weasel his way into the industry at just the right moment to undercut the other launch providers. So aside from helping privatize space travel, nothing. 
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Elon is doing the cool poo poo we'd probably all do if we become billionaires but he's being a loving pillock about it and people worship him for no reason If his companies treated their workers awesomely and he wasn't an insufferable asshat things would be different Space X is cool and good, and so is Tesla to a degree, he's just a libertarian poo poo not some super genius science guy
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May 18, 2020 01:23
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How many nerds out there would have started a reusable rocket company with the aim of opening the solar system to humans if they'd have started with the same kind of wealth Musk did? What if space exploration's future had been decided by the people instead of wealthy senators and military contractors? The hero worship of this guy is deeply frustrating. e:fb Snow Cone Capone posted:So aside from helping privatize space travel, nothing. loving ugh making reusable booster rockets is a Big Deal, the privatization was ongoing and would have continued without him
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May 18, 2020 01:27
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SpaceX is good and cool and yeah it’s Elon’s baby and he’s the public face of it, but it needs to said over and over that the company’s success has waaaaaaaaaay more to do with Gwynne Shotwell running things. SpaceX good Elon bad
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May 18, 2020 01:28
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It's important to remember too that SpaceX is an example of what humans can do when we have the materials and resources to work together it's just easy to forget when it's owned by a dumbass who doesn't get the themes of BSG
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May 18, 2020 01:29
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Tighclops posted:How many nerds out there would have started a reusable rocket company with the aim of opening the solar system to humans if they'd have started with the same kind of wealth Musk did? What if space exploration's future had been decided by the people instead of wealthy senators and military contractors? The hero worship of this guy is deeply frustrating. He had fuckall to do with the actual technology his company developed, he's a massive piece of poo poo who just happens to be a nerd and space travel would likely be in the exact same place it is now, except with Bezos at the forefront or some other nerdy billionaire. making reusable booster rockets is a Big Deal and he had jack poo poo to do with it besides being the dorky money guy. gently caress him. e: also if you wanna go real wide with it, he's essentially funding all of this off conflict gemstone money in conclusion: Big Mean Jerk posted:SpaceX good
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May 18, 2020 01:30
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Anyway I'm pretty sure it was this exact thread where someone gave me poo poo for a 3-post side-discussion on Westworld so how about we stop talking about Legendary Schmuck Elon Musk for now?
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May 18, 2020 01:33
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Tighclops posted:A new Star Trek show, but it's just combs doing Shakespeare in a park somewhere In the original Klingon, I hope.
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May 18, 2020 01:45
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The guy citing Musk as a visionary is from the Evil Universe. It went from something that would age badly to being entirely appropriate almost immediately anyway
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May 18, 2020 01:49
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Seemlar posted:The guy citing Musk as a visionary is from the Evil Universe. It went from something that would age badly to being entirely appropriate almost immediately anyway You know what I'm ok with it now Genuinely thank you
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May 18, 2020 02:12
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Tighclops posted:How many nerds out there would have started a reusable rocket company with the aim of opening the solar system to humans if they'd have started with the same kind of wealth Musk did? Yo ! Right here ! Tail landing rockets like God and Robert Heinlein intended. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0-pfzKbh2k  gently caress Musk, put the right people on it and this happens.
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May 18, 2020 02:16
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Seemlar posted:The guy citing Musk as a visionary is from the Evil Universe. It went from something that would age badly to being entirely appropriate almost immediately anyway Stamets was so upset at hearing Elon Musk being mentioned alongside the Wright Brothers and Zephram Cochrane that he storms off.
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May 18, 2020 02:27
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I wonder what Mirror Elon is like. (You do NOT want to know all the poo poo that went down between him and Mirror Azealia Banks.)
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May 18, 2020 02:34
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Didn’t Tilly have a throw away line about going to Elon Musk High in season 2 as well?
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May 18, 2020 03:00
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Seemlar posted:The guy citing Musk as a visionary is from the Evil Universe. It went from something that would age badly to being entirely appropriate almost immediately anyway This is a good point, something I hadn't thought of. Makes me feel way better about the line.
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May 18, 2020 03:06
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LeafyOrb posted:Didn’t Tilly have a throw away line about going to Elon Musk High in season 2 as well? Her HS was actually named after Elon Musk Jr, who was born X Æ A-12 Musk but later changed his name, publicly declared his parents to be tools, and went on to found the Star Trek universe’s first Cellular Peptide bakery.
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May 18, 2020 03:12
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LeafyOrb posted:Didn’t Tilly have a throw away line about going to Elon Musk High in season 2 as well? I'm pretty sure she mentions it being an awful school
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May 18, 2020 03:14
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Her HS was actually named after Elon Musk Jr, who was born X Æ A-12 Musk but later changed his name, publicly declared his parents to be tools, and went on to found the Star Trek universe’s first Cellular Peptide bakery. To be fair she went to school at Space Florida colony, one town over from David Duke High on Lost Cause Blvd.
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May 18, 2020 03:19
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LeafyOrb posted:Didn’t Tilly have a throw away line about going to Elon Musk High in season 2 as well? It was Musk Junior high. May's recording to Tilly called it an 'awful school.'
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May 18, 2020 03:20
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https://twitter.com/KenJennings/status/1260333500122591232?s=20
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May 18, 2020 03:22
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I suddenly remembered something, and went digging back through the thread. From exactly two months ago, March 17th: Astroman posted:Despite the utter shitshow that is the fall of Western Civilization we seem to be living through, there is evidence that we are, in fact, in the Best Timeline: We've done a fair amount of making GBS threads on TheGWW, but I have to admit they loving nailed this one.
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May 18, 2020 04:01
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Powered Descent posted:I suddenly remembered something, and went digging back through the thread. We've done a fair amount of making GBS threads on TheGWW, but I have to admit they loving nailed this one. [/quote] On the other hand, the show premise and title are like ridiculously obvious ideas so it could be a lucky guess/coincidence too.
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May 18, 2020 04:08
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Every now and then it strikes me just how bad "The Next Generation" is as a subtitle Like wow
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May 18, 2020 04:09
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Wasn’t there a bunch of shows that adopted the “Next Generation” title scheme around that time? Was Star Trek the first one?
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May 18, 2020 04:21
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Elon Musk is a dumbass and his useless starlink bullshit is going to ruin astronomy if it doesn’t outright cause a kessler collapse from incompetent execution, hth
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May 18, 2020 05:38
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Posting in the Musky thread
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May 18, 2020 05:49
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lol would retweet againDrink-Mix Man posted:I was just thinking it would be ironic if the bright, optimistic, Roddenberry-esque Trek became the dark sheep of the franchise this time, like an inverse DS9. Jfc dammit, that is exactly what would happen.  "It's not realistic!"AntherUslessPoster posted:That, but condensed to one season. Brisk storytelling? In my Stirred Dreck? <seinfeld>Iiii-hi-hi don't think so!</seinfeld> Senor Tron posted:Also I'll be pumped if the opening credits are basically the Beyond end credits but with less blown up planets and more whooshing Enterprise. Whoa, poo poo I had forgotten all about that.
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May 18, 2020 07:22
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Seemlar posted:The guy citing Musk as a visionary is from the Evil Universe. It went from something that would age badly to being entirely appropriate almost immediately anyway Holy poo poo this works.
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HD DAD posted:Wasn’t there a bunch of shows that adopted the “Next Generation” title scheme around that time? Was Star Trek the first one? It's a super 80's thing because the 80's and early-mid 90's were the last time that there was the general assumption that things would always get better as time goes on. So you use titles like "The Next Generation" because people automatically associate that as "Oh, this is what happens next so it must be even better!".
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May 18, 2020 07:47
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Hipster_Doofus posted:
No, no! 8 episodes of introducing the crew and a finale two parter The Menagerie reshoot
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May 18, 2020 07:55
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Powered Descent posted:I suddenly remembered something, and went digging back through the thread. We've done a fair amount of making GBS threads on TheGWW, but I have to admit they loving nailed this one. [/quote] 
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May 18, 2020 12:51
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Senor Tron posted:It's a super 80's thing because the 80's and early-mid 90's were the last time that there was the general assumption that things would always get better as time goes on. So you use titles like "The Next Generation" because people automatically associate that as "Oh, this is what happens next so it must be even better!". This is obviously written by somebody who never saw DeGrassi: The Next Generation. Stuff never got better for those kids I think they just used the title, honestly, to say, "Hey, remember how you liked Star Trek? Well, it's back!
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May 18, 2020 16:54
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When I was a kid I had no idea there was a Star Trek show before Next Generation. I thought it was just called that because it was in the future, i.e. about the "next generation" of humanity or something.
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May 18, 2020 17:48
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Drink-Mix Man posted:When I was a kid I had no idea there was a Star Trek show before Next Generation. I thought it was just called that because it was in the future, i.e. about the "next generation" of humanity or something. Sort of awesome coming from that perspective, sounds like.
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May 18, 2020 17:54
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my shameful confession: I never watched Deep Spaces 1 through 8 
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May 18, 2020 18:37
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Finally got around to watching Discovery, shotgunning it in a weekend, and man does this show have a problem with telling instead of showing.
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May 19, 2020 01:00
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RLM's Picard review dropped. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwF1iri1GjQ
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May 19, 2020 02:57
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Dietrich posted:RLM's Picard review dropped. I can't watch a 90 minute review! I've got 9 hours of TV to watch!
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May 19, 2020 03:46
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Dietrich posted:RLM's Picard review dropped. finally i can know what to think about this show!!!
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Dietrich posted:RLM's Picard review dropped. A nerd's thoughts on Star Trek? Now this I gotta see!
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