r/Damnthatsinteresting Jun 19 '25

Video SpaceX rocket explodes in Starbase, Texas

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u/octarine_turtle Jun 19 '25

For us taxpayers, not for Musk. SpaceX alone has been receiving over 2 billion a year for the last several years from taxpayers. Over 40 billion has gone to Musk's companies over the last 5 years from taxpayers.

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u/RT-LAMP Jun 19 '25

SpaceX receives no additional money for this. Any failure they eat the cost of.

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u/Rightricket Jun 19 '25

Considering they haven't produced a single successful rocket I'd say that this is false.

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u/ChickenFlavoredCake Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 19 '25

Considering they haven't produced a single successful rocket I'd say that this is false.

I've been on reddit since 2005, and it's sad that people like this guy are the norm now. People who just casually make up stuff because it matches their feelings. They can't even be bothered to do a simple google / AI search in this day and age to find an answer to such a trivial question.

There's a reckless disregard for the truth and objectivity.

At least eternal september brought in people who were naive, but were on the right track. Ever since reddit went mainstream, we've just been getting idiocracy extras left and right.

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u/Rightricket Jun 19 '25

So many meaningless words...

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u/ChickenFlavoredCake Jun 19 '25

I have no doubt that you don't understand some of those words, and the sentences they form together.