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With Starship catch, SpaceX still shows it can dazzle the world
It felt like stepping into the future.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/11/with-starship-catch-spacex-still-shows-it-can-dazzle-the-world/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
@arstechnica On the one hand, if they can demonstrate rapid re-use with this Starship or the 1 or 2 after that, that’s the full breakthrough. Picking up from where the Space Shuttle (and Buran) left off.
On the other hand, it’s a triumph of fascist oligarchs over justice, democracy, & life on Earth. Pretty galling to go from Apollo with a Nazi chief engineer & all-white male crew to Falcon 9 & Starship owned by a neo-Nazi who’s encircling the world with a shell of thousands of satellites.
@arstechnica Yeah... what spoils the aww is that it's CEO is a pro-russian nazi corrupting the US government and misuing Twitter to manipulate the world.
@arstechnica a future run by a fascist trillionaire, but a future nonetheless