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Neuralink Can Implant Second Person With a Brain Chip, FDA Says (gizmodo.com)

submitted 6 months ago by 0nekoneko7@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today -3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I've seen how they run their rocketry business. Success isn't always their goal.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

SpaceX has a 64% market share in the global commercial rocket launch market for sending satellites, scientific instruments, and other payloads into orbit. In the first six months of 2023, SpaceX handled 21 flights for outside customers, or 64% of the worldwide total. In the first half of 2023, SpaceX handled 88 percent of customer flights from U.S. launch sites.[1]

If success isn't their goal I'd be amazed at what they accomplished if the decided to try for it someday.

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today -4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's not analogous to the situation with the brain chips. We're in the testing phases, and the testing phases for SpaceX rockets involves so many unplanned explosions that they've been in multiple investigations.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You were the one who made the comparison.

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 0 points 5 months ago

Yes and it stands. I'm still comparing SpaceX to Neuralink in terms of unethical rushed testing and development, and it still stands. What I'm not referring to is the products that SpaceX ships, YOU were the one who brought that up.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The Falcon 9 is the safest rocket ever built, source.

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Falcon 9 is unmanned, and the Soyuz still has better stats according to your own source.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Falcon 9 is definitely manned.

The capsule Crew dragon, developed by Spacex for NASA, that flies on the Falcon 9 is the currently the only human rated orbital spacecraft in the US

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My apologies, looks like the first manned flight was on 16 November 2020 after about 9 years of delays. Weather forced them to abandon their goal of reaching the ISS.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 0 points 5 months ago

I don't know where you found this number, the commercial crew contract was awarded by NASA in September 2014 to SpaceX and Boeing (Boeing getting twice the amount of money than SpaceX). It was expected that two crew capsule would be certified by NASA in 2017.

SpaceX only certified the capsule Crew Dragon with a crewed launch in 2020, so 3 years delay. In the mean time NASA is still waiting for Boeing to do its first crewed Starliner launch.

There is plenty of reason to hate Musk but people at SpaceX did accomplish great things.

Without SpaceX NASA would still be relying on Soyuz to send astronauts to the ISS.