52
SpaceX retrieves space junk from Saskatchewan farmer (www.cbc.ca)
submitted 5 months ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/news@lemmy.world
12 comments fedilink hide all child comments
top 12 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago

Sawchuk would not disclose how much money he received for the junk, but said he was satisfied with the compensation, which will go toward helping build a new rink in the community.

"We got something for the skating rink in Ituna and that's what it was always about," he said.

Elon Musk would call this guy a fool for helping his community and making it a better place. I'm glad this at least cost his company some money.

[-] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Lawler suggests that he's getting around $5000 per piece and there were three pieces, so that's around $15k going to the local skating rink.

[-] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world -5 points 5 months ago

Projecting much?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

How am I projecting? I don't think this guy is a fool.

[-] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world -2 points 5 months ago

But you do know exactly what Elon would say?

Your projecting because by injecting your own assumptions into his motivations, you're turning Elon into the villain you want him to be. It's a natural thing to do, people are complicated and they're easier to imagine as black and white, good or evil, hero or villain. It's just not real.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

I'm pretty sure I don't have to turn Elon into a villain.

He's doing that quite well on his own.

You apparently failed to notice this story posted just this morning in this very community: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/elon-musk-offered-horse-to-flight-attendant-in-exchange-for-sex-report-5879673

[-] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

So you're doubling down? You do know what other people are thinking? Must be nice.

My entire point was that it doesn't make sense to judge someone for something they absolutely didn't say.

Feel free to judge them on things they have said, that's fine. And musk has in fact said and done a bunch of awful things, which is exactly why you just don't need to make shit up.

Edit: Hey look, I'm not expecting you to agree with me (this is the Internet, people don't just change their minds), so I'm just going to drop it.

[-] girthero@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

exactly why you just don't need to make shit up.

Exactly this! Its counter productive to adressing the legitimate criticisms. This happened with Trump all the time. They want you to make stuff up so they can just say fake news to the real nasty shit they're actually doing.

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 5 months ago

"I was hoping they would tell us a little bit more about just why they're here and what they're going to do with the pieces," Lawler said. "SpaceX is doing nothing to educate the general public about how they're changing the sky for everyone in the world," she said.

I wish that wasn't buried in the 3rd from last paragraph, its a question more people should be demanding answers about.

[-] pipe01@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

There's a thing known as ITAR that probably gets in the way. Besides, I'd say SpaceX is educating more people than any other space launch company right now

[-] Nach@midwest.social 6 points 5 months ago

I want to know what those pieces are. They look suspiciously like foot rests but it doesn't make sense based on a launch in February and the pieces falling into the farmer's field in April. I guess it's probably part of the second stage.

[-] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Well, I can tell you for sure they aren't foot rests... There's 2 reasons for that, first, the crew dragon capsule that actually carries people isn't left to burn up in reentry, it renters, deploys parachutes and it's recovered (preferably with astronauts). The second reason is that the dragon doesn't use that kind of foot rest dragon capsule interior.

The pieces look to me like they're all part of the fairing. This makes some sense because the fairing has to walk a very fine line. It's whole job is to protect the payload and not burn up in ascent, but then it's supposed to totally burn up on descent. In practice, it doesn't always work out that way.

Also in the photo, look at all that gross looking black fiber coming off of it. I think that's all partially burned carbon fiber composite. I know the fairing is made of carbon fiber, so that fits pretty well.

As for rocket launch timing, spaceX launches almost twice a week. If this is from a fairing, it could be from almost any of those launches (excluding the manned missions, because they don't use a fairing).

this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2024
52 points (94.8% liked)

News

23301 readers
1170 users here now

Welcome to the News community!

Rules:

1. Be civil

Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.

2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.

Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.

3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.

Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.

4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.

Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.

5. Only recent news is allowed.

Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.

6. All posts must be news articles.

No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.

7. No duplicate posts.

If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.

8. Misinformation is prohibited.

Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.

9. No link shorteners.

The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.

10. Don't copy entire article in your post body

For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
rjc@lemmy.world
Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world
dezmd@lemmy.world
Tenthrow@lemmy.world
JonsJava@lemmy.world
gedaliyah@lemmy.world
Blackbeard@lemmy.world
little_cow@lemmy.world
jeffw@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world