SpaceX has now landed more boosters than most other rockets ever launch (arstechnica.com)

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Landing 300 rockets means SpaceX has preserved 2,700 Merlin rocket engines. In round numbers, the dry mass of a Falcon 9 first stage is about 50 metric tons, so the landing of all these rockets has prevented 15,000 metric tons of metal and other materials from being dumped into the oceans—the equivalent, in mass, of about 100 residential homes.

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[-] franklin@lemmy.world -5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

A display of disgusting extravagance built on the backs of the brilliant workers who achieved it.

[-] ptfrd@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 months ago

Are all rocket missions a "disgusting extravagance" or just the SpaceX ones?

The dozens of launches to the ISS? The Intuitive Machines moon lander from couple of months ago? All those TV satellites servicing various parts of the world? The hundreds of communications satellites?

[-] franklin@lemmy.world -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This has to be willful misunderstanding.

I don't mean SpaceX, I mean Elon Musk and his billions made by the workers at SpaceX, to which be contributed nothing of value.

[-] ptfrd@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 months ago

I don’t mean SpaceX, I mean Elon Musk

Neither your comment, nor the article you are commenting about, mentions Elon Musk once! What am I supposed to think?

And if it's him you're talking about, then what does your term "disgusting extravagance" apply to? All those super yachts and private islands he owns and spends so much time on? /s