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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

That was not the claim, the claim was on the actual space frontier. And in that regard Elon Musk and SpaceX has not achieved anything.
At 4:10 he even praise that SpaceX works on reusability, and call landing the rocket a tremendous achievement.

You are arguing a strawman, the exact problem this video was made to address.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

they have managed to set a trend for filling the night sky with shitty little low orbit satellites chewing up the ozone layer

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

and of course oversaturating LEO, because while they will come down eventually, those dead satellites will stay up there for a decade or more in some cases