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points by mschuster91 9 hours ago | 0 comments
It's Meta, lol. They wasted 80 billion $ on Zuck's fever dream called Metaverse.
[–] Andrew_nenakhov 8 hours ago
It's amusing that their grand dream was basically a clone of Roblox, just with better VR tech and far more advanced graphics. But thing is, kids playing Roblox absolutely do not care about graphics.
[–] outrun86 4 hours ago
Well, don’t care about graphics yet. Unclear what will happen once those gamers hit 20, 30 years old.
[–] WalterBright 8 hours ago
Musk initially started his rocket company by going to Russia and trying to buy Russian rockets. The Russians spat on his shoe.

The rest is history.

[–] mschuster91 7 hours ago
That at least was a reasonable idea. The Russians had a lot of old Soviet era ICBMs they had no need for anymore (plus, IIRC an agreement with the US to disassemble them), so using their engines as a cheap powerplant until SpaceX nailed reusability made sense.

That failed and SpaceX was then forced to develop its own brand new engines.