It seems crazy that a company that's only really known for cars, motorbikes, tuning forks, heat pumps, brake pads, pens, tractors, fertilizer, display panels, outboard motors, pneumatic systems, oil tankers, furniture, locomotives, bricks, solar panels, ATVs, generators, hot air balloons, dinghies, hydrogen fuel cells, submarines, crop dusters, jet engines, cultivators, hedge trimmers, lawnmowers, precision optics and robots would suddenly pivot to rockets.
this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2025
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It's actually interesting how similar rockets and jet engines are. You could think of a rocket as a jet (or sometimes two jet engines) where the afterburner is always on and the air intake is replaced by an O2 tank..
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Don't forget, one the sleekest airplanes to ever exist.
N420HA. Not sure if that's the model or the plane's license plate but either way hell yeah
Yeah, tail numbers are a lot like license plates.
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To be fair to Honda, they are doing what is expected of any companies in a capitalist system, actually innovate and diversify in order to remain competitive. Most other companies would rather stick to their traditional products and services, even if those products and services are written on the wall that they are becoming obsolete.
It's almost like they're an engineering company.
Crazy, right?
The impressive part is that they are also known for being reliable, there are the occasional issues, but overall very trustworthy products.
Like how the 2018-2021 Honda Civics shipped with non functioning AC because they used the wrong type of refrigerant? They’ve also trained dealerships to deny the warranty!
It’s been in the 90s all week - I risk heat stroke in my fucking car going to work!
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I hope they crush SpaceX one day.
By landing on them.
This is the first I have heard they were doing this. Makes spacex accomplishments less impressive. Fuck elon
How does it make spaceX’s accomplishments less impressive? SpaceX pioneered it. Space X did it first, with a significantly bigger rocket and at a significantly higher altitude. Honda no doubt achieved this by looking at what spacex did and how they did it and copying it.
This actually makes spaceX’s accomplishments look even more impressive.
I imagine they poached a lot of Spacex engineers by simply telling them “we won’t make you work ungodly hours, nor will we subject you to a narcissistic manchild with no engineering education dropping in on your meetings and trying to tell you how to do your job”
I bet they poached 0-3 engineers.
You left out the "but you have to learn Japanese and move to Japan" part of the job pitch. That makes it a harder sell for most people.
You do realize it’s Japan right? China, Japan, Korea all have work life balance issues.i wouldn’t want to work 996 or 007 lol
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In Japan?
"... it'll be the same, but it's a huge honor to work on this project in our company."
And we reward you for this huge honour with the worst working conditions you can imagine. You’ll live at your desk.
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Um, no it doesn't... At all...
This is a first step landing test, not even suborbital, it flew to a height of 300 meters. This is the point that SpaceX was at in 2011 with their grasshopper rocket.
SpaceX is regularly landing orbital hardware and working on a fully reusable rocket with a greater lifting capacity than anything else ever. It's not really the same...
But fuck Elon, no argument there.
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I wanna buy one and see what it can do with an old 4 cylinder VTEC out of a Civic Si.
Of all the manufacturing companies, I would expect nothing less from Honda.
The all new Honda space Odyssey! It has a great V6 rocket engine with a 6000 million mile timing belt. After that you can buy one at amazon but it lasts 4 miles or 6 minutes.
An alternative to starlink would be great.
An alternative to anything related to Elon would be great.
An alternative to.space junk clogging up the sky would indeed be nice.
Well this wouldn't be that. It would be a competitor to space junk, so increase the number of satellites in orbit by say 25%.
It sounds like he's asking for more space junk.
Yeah, they could have a product ready by 2045! (If they hurry and make it a priority)
