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IKEA first satellite successfully launched
(lemmy.zip)
"Some assembly required"
This is what I came here for.
Joke aside, i really thought for a moment "What, they build rockets now too?".
Since companies can infinitely grow and diversify (which can only lead to a coprorate dystopia long-term imo), i wouldn't have been surprised.
Didn't Mitsubishi make kamikaze fighters before pivoting to automobiles and air conditioning units and excavators?
A lot of car manufacturer did also produce airplanes in the pre-jet era: BMW, Mercedes, Fiat, Ford, Honda, Kawasaki, Mitsubishi, Piaggio, Saab, and probably more. Some of them later concentrated on one thing or split into two companies.
They were the ones who knew how to build engines, chassis and so on. If you think about it, a 1920s car is not that much different than a 1920s plane. Just wire the motor to a propeller and the steering wheel to the flaps instead of the wheels, weld a pair of wings to the sides and call it a day.
They started as a ship building company, most of japanense navy in ww2 was built by them. Today, they continue to build fighter jets, ships, tanks, and rockets.
Well, they were designed as fighters. The kamakazi part came later
The feeling when you build something only to notice you have screws left over...
To be fair, sometimes they give you extra screws. One or two is fine, this looks like they had half of them left over.
Imagine the poor astronaut out there trying to put it together
And the Allen key floats away....
Imagine last shift guy got dull box cutters and has to keep bracing himself on the ceiling. Packing peanuts floating everywhere.
A living hell I hadn't yet conjured .
What is this really? Just some asshole shooting missiles at civilians or a satellite breaking up or?
It definitely looks like space debris breaking up and burning up in the atmosphere to me.
Do we know which one this was?
The stuff falling is the leftover hardware.
Next space joint venture will be Lego + IKEA + Flex Seal™ + The Claw Machine, LLC.
Sounds good on paper!
Going to move to a new house... time for rapid disassembly!
this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2025
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