The Soviets managed to get a probe to Venus like 70 years ago btw

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    Funny that Worlds Smartest Man Elon Musk can’t just learn lessons from what the Soviets did before he was even born. It’s a good sign of intelligence when someone can’t even learn from what others have done in the past.

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      Also you’ll be surprised how many of the engineers love the Soviets who also work at the company. I don’t know if you’re doing a bit but the space community is different there’s an actual sense of solidarity with one another and they take pride in any human achievement in space travel and unlike the US manufactured “space race” and whoever “won” they would all say humans first but Soviets second. So yeah don’t talk out your ass

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        And yet they’re also going along with decisions like launching the rockets without safety measures that have been standard for years, resulting in property damage and harm to sensitive wildlife habitat in addition to reducing their own chances of launching successfully due to flying debris. Great that some of them have their hearts in the right place but they’re still going along with whatever Elon says he wants and they appear perfectly willing to cut the corners he wants cut.