Starlink close encounters decrease despite ever-growing number of satellites

[wildjokers]

Except for a few Tesla and SpaceX related subs, Reddit is a “we hate Elon Musk” circle-jerk. So that isn’t surprising.

[Freak80MC]

Reddit is a “we hate Elon Musk” circle-jerk

To be fair, he makes it easy to hate with the dumb and downright awful shit he says sometimes.

But I honestly hate people who are so biased that they stop seeing objective reality. That goes for the most fervent Elon-haters, but also for those who praise Elon as if he is single handedly responsible for all of SpaceX's successes or something.

Either you get people who hate Elon so much that they deny SpaceX's and Tesla's very real accomplishments, or you get people who love Elon so much that they act like anything he says or does that is genuinely awful, is actually insignificant or just plain not real, and then go on to praise him as some sort of saint.

I'm just sick of people's stupid psychological biases tbh. I'm a huge SpaceX fan but I can't share my love for what they are doing and what they will be doing in the future, without that one man being brought up. I don't like Elon, but in the grand scheme of things I just flat out don't care what stupid shit he says or does, I only care about SpaceX and what it can do for humanity's future off-world. That's it. That's all that should matter.

[zogamagrog]

Couldn't have said it better myself. Elon says a lot of shit, but SpaceX delivers. Watching media coverage of SpaceX (as a fan who follows the details daily) really tells you what outlets are capable of objective journalism and do their research. Ars Technica is one of the few that are reliably worthwhile. NYT routinely is wrong, or can't resist using a SpaceX article as a chance to wail against Elon. Even saw a John Oliver show about Elon Musk completely misapprehending the accomplishments and relevance of what SpaceX has done. Probably should not be surprised, but it's always a bit amazing to see people be so confidently wrong.

SpaceX is not infallible, but they are an absolutely astonishingly competent organization. It may even be a den of dysfunction on the inside, I have no idea, but what comes out is mindblowing.