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Elon Musk: ‘Bezos retired in order to pursue a full-time job filing lawsuits against SpaceX’
The Verge ^ | Aug 27, 2021 | James Vincent

Posted on 08/28/2021 8:24:21 AM PDT by fireman15

Elon Musk has criticized fellow centibillionaire and space cowboy Jeff Bezos for filing lawsuits against the former’s aerospace company SpaceX.

Earlier this month, Bezos’ space firm Blue Origin sued NASA after it lost a critical government contract to put astronauts on the Moon to SpaceX. This has had the effect of delaying SpaceX’s own work on the project. And now, this week, Amazon has urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to dismiss newly-submitted plans by SpaceX to launch another cluster of satellites to power its satellite internet service Starlink.

Replying to a story about the latter complaint, Musk tweeted: “Turns out Besos [sic] retired in order to pursue a full-time job filing lawsuits against SpaceX …”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Hobbies; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: amazon; bezos; blueorigin; elonmusk; jeffbezos; musk; satellites; spacex; starlink
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"Centibillionaire" wars. I am looking forward to the service that Starlink will provide, but with the current failure rate there is some risk involved with the shear amount of space debris finding its way into low orbit and traveling at thousands of miles an hour and creating a very risky space two or three hundred mile above the earth that could impede future projects and make them risky for decades to come.

https://eresearch.fidelity.com/eresearch/evaluate/news/basicNewsStory.jhtml?symbols=TSLA&storyid=202104190631DOWJONESDJONLINE000052&sb=1

1 posted on 08/28/2021 8:24:21 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: fireman15

Bezos is a loser and the money can’t wash it off.


2 posted on 08/28/2021 8:26:07 AM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: fireman15

lovely how such multi=billionaires (or, in their own communistic lingo, “over-privileged 1% elite spoiled pig blod-suckers”) have never even learned the most rudimentary people skills

we should send them back to kindergarten and require that they receive passing marks on their “plays well with others” report cards!

ps: they deserve each other, ha ha


3 posted on 08/28/2021 8:29:19 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: fireman15

The Kessler Syndrome is overused by hack reporters trying to instill fear to their readership. Space is vast and the likelihood of collisions are infinitesimal.


4 posted on 08/28/2021 8:29:37 AM PDT by DoubleNickle
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To: fireman15

Bezos really is a disgusting human being who has caused considerable damage to the world.


5 posted on 08/28/2021 8:31:02 AM PDT by McGavin999 (biden is not my president )
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To: fireman15

Bezos is looking for payback for his roll in helping to get rid of Trump.


6 posted on 08/28/2021 8:34:34 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: fireman15

Modern day Tesla vs. Edison


7 posted on 08/28/2021 8:36:22 AM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: fireman15

Liberal losers are the worst losers.


8 posted on 08/28/2021 8:37:21 AM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths. )
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Modern day Tesla vs. Edison

Except bazos has yet to even reach an orbit. Hie rocket goes strait up and strait down. Yet he thinks he is better positioned to support a moon landing. Now he is trying to copy SpaceX's Starship with a stainless rocket that looks exactly like early SpaceX prototypes.
9 posted on 08/28/2021 8:41:03 AM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths. )
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To: fireman15

So if Bezos retired, who is running Amazon now?


10 posted on 08/28/2021 8:42:13 AM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: DoubleNickle
Space is vast and the likelihood of collisions are infinitesimal.

Space yes, but Orbital space... definitely not. There have already been several near collisions involving Starlink satellites and other valuable assets in low orbit. And space junk from failed satellite placement and launches are getting to be an unpredictable risk.

The total number of satellites launched since the 50s is only about 9000, but Musk has already got 1300 up and adding 120 more per month. Their failure rate was around 5% but is improving, rivals claim that the failure rate should be less than .1% to ensure future safety.

https://eresearch.fidelity.com/eresearch/evaluate/news/basicNewsStory.jhtml?symbols=TSLA&storyid=202104190631DOWJONESDJONLINE000052&sb=1

11 posted on 08/28/2021 8:43:01 AM PDT by fireman15
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Bezos is a dildo just like his little rocket ship, his tantrums are delaying our space program for months.


12 posted on 08/28/2021 8:49:47 AM PDT by Colo9250 (Demand justice for Ashley Babbitt.)
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To: DoubleNickle

Correct. Starlink satellites have collision avoidance based on satellite orbital data and deorbit at the end of service. Even with that, you’re correct, space is vast and orbital shells have plenty of room. The number of Starlink satellites is if I recall correctly more than all other active satellites combined.


13 posted on 08/28/2021 8:55:47 AM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers)
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To: Mean Daddy

and in this case Tesla was first to market with the superior product that has now made it the preferred supplier to SpaceForce over such things as Boeing and LockMart.


14 posted on 08/28/2021 8:57:50 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: fireman15

Bezos started his company in his mom’s basement.
Musk left his home to come to America and start his business.

You can tell by watching them.


15 posted on 08/28/2021 9:02:31 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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“hey Alexia! Take me to the moon!”

I’m sorry I can’t do that yet.


16 posted on 08/28/2021 9:02:35 AM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house.... But the fact checkers said the story was false!)
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To: cableguymn

That will be $200, cash.


17 posted on 08/28/2021 9:07:40 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: fireman15

SpaceX has launched has launched ~1732 Starlink satellites to date and 98 of them have been safely deorbited. Skimmed the article you posted and it’s the typical Elon bashing from those who are threaten by the success of SpaceX. ViaSat is a horse whip manufacturer of broadband service from GEO and will be losing out big time to Starlink and Bezos, with his Kuiper paper satellite constellation, can only lawyer up as Blue Orgin is so far behind that they’ll never be able to catch up.


18 posted on 08/28/2021 9:11:55 AM PDT by DoubleNickle
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To: AndyJackson

Seems reasonable. Just waiting on my Biden check.


19 posted on 08/28/2021 9:15:00 AM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house.... But the fact checkers said the story was false!)
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To: AndyJackson

Seems reasonable. Just waiting on my Biden check.


20 posted on 08/28/2021 9:15:06 AM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house.... But the fact checkers said the story was false!)
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