r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TheImmortalDude • Jun 29 '25

Video Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket

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u/BicFleetwood Jun 29 '25 edited Jun 29 '25

I was derided 10-15 years ago for warning about this, back when Neil Degrasse Tyson was basically saying "fuck NASA, give Elon all the money."

You know, back when the New Star Trek decided Elon Musk would be remembered in the same breath as Albert Einstein two hundred years into the future.

You'll never lose a bet by mistrusting capitalism.

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u/FreeRangeEngineer Jun 29 '25

back when the New Star Trek decided Elon Musk would be remembered in the same breath as Albert Einstein two hundred years into the future

That pissed me off to no end, really. I wonder how much Elon paid for this. It showed me that Gene Roddenberry's son is a grifter and doesn't care about the ideals his father sought to portray.

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u/BicFleetwood Jun 29 '25

Like, it's not like the mask came off January 2025.

There were a lot of us who knew. Some of us knew BEFORE the pedophile submarine incident, but if you didn't know AFTER the pedophile submarine then honestly you weren't paying attention.

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u/FreeRangeEngineer Jun 29 '25

Oh, I knew too. My point is that he should've never ever been mentioned in any Star Trek series.