Why do you need to use crypto to pay legitimate workers under the table?
I literally just listed a variety of situations where you'd need to do that.
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I wasn't aware of the "can I eat it?" Method of determining whether something is a scam or not.
The first stage has basically been proven out at this point. That alone makes it revolutionary, the world's most powerful first stage booster and it's fully reusable. Even if the upper stage ends up being non-reusable the increase in capacity and reduction in cost is enormous.
And I see no fundamental reason why the upper stage won't be made reusable. The first two Starship reentry tests got toasty but the rocket survived to do a precise, controlled landing in the ocean. That's most of the way there.
Do you like the Apollo program? Saturn V was a nice rocket? Have a read of Wernher von Braun's activities during World War II some time.
The fact that Elon Musk is an awful person has nothing to do with the capabilities of Starship. It's a good rocket.
No problem. Didn't occur to me that "performance" had a double meaning when it came to commercial media like TV and movies.
I've found the Fediverse to be "bubblier" than places like Reddit in general. I think it's simply that there are a lot fewer people here so it's easier for a group to fall into groupthink, there are fewer outliers.
Not that most of Reddit is particularly "pro-crypto", but you're at least more likely to encounter those views now and then. That can lead to the challenging of assumptions.