Want to fact check something I’m seeing said a lot right now about the launch. This isn’t America successfully returning to space. This is a private corporation, led by a man who tries to avoid as many taxes as possible, selling a ride to American astronauts.
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Anyways, I’m happy the launch went well and that we have some new astronauts up there, but it has to be a public good. Privatizing space is a recipe for future disaster.
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There was that thing a few months ago where they said they were going back to the moon. But idk if theyre sub contracting everything tho
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Elon knows one of the best ways to get rich is government contracts
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I don't begrudge anyone their lucrative government contracts either - NASA didn't build the shuttles, they subbed those fuckers out to Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, etc. - but they owned them. We're just paying crazy expensive airfare on these rides.
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Yuuuup. Look, instead of standing on the side of a launch pad in China or Russa hiking up the leg of our spacesuit and trying to bum a ride we're buying overpriced space bus tickets from Intergalactic Greyhound. …but we used to have the best space-cars in the neighborhood!
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Overpriced? It costs less to fly on Crew Dragon than Soyuz. And a lot less than it cost to fly the Shuttle. And less than it'll cost to fly Orion. SpaceX is far more affordable and efficient than NASA ever was. And I've always been a fan of NASA, but that's reality.
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Yes. Exactly.
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"BuT NASA iS SoCiAliSm"
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Even in the Apollo days, tho, NASA would subcontract to e.g. Boeing, etc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V
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I'm actually a little leery about leaving it wholly in NASA's hands instead of opening civilian access, as doing so means the tech is largely restricted to the mission priorities of the military's air force. There's a much stronger incentive to demilitarize access this way.
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I’d argue the reverse. If the military really wants your private spaceship, they’re gonna come take it (and NASA is a civilian branch), but having a whole bunch of different actors fighting over a new exploitable frontier ALWAYS leads to conflict.
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Le chargement semble prendre du temps.
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