Twitter Jokes as Elon Musk Announces SpaceX Delivered New Batch of Starlink With 'Lasers' to Orbit
01:16 GMT 08.01.2022 (Updated: 12:56 GMT 14.04.2023)
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On Thursday, SpaceX launched its first Falcon 9 rocket of the year, successfully delivering a new stack of 49 Starlink satellites into orbit from Florida and landing safely at sea.
Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, said that his company has begun launching satellites equipped with "lasers" into orbit.
In an apparent joke, the eccentric businessman tweeted a photo of the Starlinks, which earned nearly 122,000 likes as of Friday.
Starlinks with “lasers” deployed to orbit pic.twitter.com/Y1eg9gl7sJ
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 6, 2022
The joke most likely was an homage to the 1997 classic comedy movie, "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery," which contained a scene famous among fans for its quote "sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads."
However, this has been one of the company's regular satellite launches conducted since 2019, with the stated goal of covering the entire planet with affordable internet. For this purpose, SpaceX plans to launch about 12,000 satellites in the coming years.
As usual, many people reacted to Musk's tweet, with some of them recalling the "lasers" scene with comments and GIFs sent in response.
Definitely better than Sharks with lasers Elon pic.twitter.com/IN7T2TtL49
— Tony Edward - Thinking Crypto YouTube & Podcast (@ThinkingCrypto1) January 6, 2022
is this from star wars
— AshleyDCan.ethᵍᵐⓣ (@AshleyDCan) January 7, 2022
Can you align all the lasers to merge into one big superlaser and aim it at an inbound asteroid incinerating it and wen point it at Bezos muahahaha
— 𝔇𝔞𝔫𝔞 (@daelmor) January 7, 2022
Ready for the attack order. 🤣
— Erich García Cruz (@ErichGarciaCruz) January 6, 2022
— DogeTooCheap (@JustinScerini) January 6, 2022
"Can you install sound in space so we can hear the pew pew?" asked another Twitter user.
The creator of Musk's favorite cryptocurrency, dogecoin, which is backed by the richest man on the planet, attached a picture with the highest approval for Musk in his reply.
starlink is badass pic.twitter.com/aJwHKsBHRJ
— Shibetoshi Nakamoto (@BillyM2k) January 6, 2022
Can you align all the lasers to merge into one big superlaser and aim it at an inbound asteroid incinerating it and wen point it at Bezos muahahaha
— 𝔇𝔞𝔫𝔞 (@daelmor) January 7, 2022
Just lasered the kitty.
— Angela Belcamino (@AngelaBelcamino) January 6, 2022
I'm waxed.
Fully vaxxed.
& ready to climax! 💃
Recently, Starlink dishes have been discovered to not only provide Internet service but also attract cats. An internet user recently posted a photo of five cats sleeping atop one of the receiver dishes in order to remain warm in the cold weather.
And late last month, Musk reacted to criticism that his company's satellites take up too much space in Earth's orbit by asserting that "tens of billions" of spacecraft could fit in orbits around Earth.
