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China unveils fully reusable Starship-like rocket concept (spacenews.com)

submitted 16 hours ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/spaceflight@sh.itjust.works

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

China unveils their totally original and not stolen “Buran” shuttle.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 8 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I support everyone's right to steal from Elon.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Buran is an old Soviet design, nothing to do with Elon, as far as I know.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 3 hours ago

I assumed he was just continuing the joke, so it's important to remember that it's always ok to steal from oligarchs.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Elon didn’t build Starship, underpaid engineers did. And China steals from everybody.

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

SpaceX engineers are overworked, but not really underpaid compared to the industry. But they should probably be paid more given the workload and hours.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Yup. For the record, when I say "underpaid" I don't mean not paid a living wage, I mean paid less than they're worth.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago

Have they actually, or is this just a continuation of the joke?