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Old 7th June 2024 | 20:12
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Spacex don’t have professional commentators, they’re all company engineers with full time proper engineering jobs - so, yeah, they’re not slick and they don’t talk geek because they’re excited and they don’t want to talk down to their audience.

The company has lotteries for for those who want to apply, then auditions, and they prepare and prep them as much as they can - but it’s the same as if you put a F1 engineer up to commentate on a race, they’d be awful.

But that’s their ethos - the money and the time goes into the engineers, and the engineering - not the PR.

I think Starlink and the real-time video more than make up for it.

Watch the movie and ignore the talking heads…
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