Why Elon Musk’s SpaceX launch is utterly depressing | Nathan Robinson
by Nathan Robinson from on (#3FAPG)
Elon Musk is right: silly and fun things are important. But some of them are an indefensible waste of resources
On Wednesday, two things happened. In Syria, 80 people were killed by government airstrikes. Meanwhile, in Florida, Elon Musk fired a sports car into space. Guess which story has dominated mainstream news sites?
The much-anticipated launch of Musk's Falcon Heavy rocket, the most powerful ever launched by a private company, went off without a hitch. Musk successfully sent his cherry-red Tesla roadster hurtling toward Mars, launching what a CNN commentator called "a new space age".
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