"No one gets out," policy unrolled.https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/feb/3/biden-cancels-elon-musks-adventures-in-space/ …
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Replying to @Outsideness
this article is silly, the delays in the SN9 launch were just standard bureaucratic ass-covering/muscle-flexing and there's no reason to believe they had anything to do with the admin at all
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Replying to @ded_ruckus @Outsideness
Amazingly wrong. It's "standard bureaucratic muscle-flexing because they know they can get away with it and don't fear being humiliated by being overruled. They desperately want revenge for Musk showing them up as incompetent.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @Outsideness
FAA is not NASA and is particularly not the booster side of NASA NASA, Huntsville Space Center, Boeing, all might have the reaction you describe FAA doesn't separate orgs, not all that closely related
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Replying to @ded_ruckus @Outsideness
Oh please. They know who friends and enemies are and men who actually accomplish things are the ultimate existential threat to *all* of them - no matter what particular part of the machine they work for. They can always cooperate to sabotage someone showing them up.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @Outsideness
this is silly, the Cathedral have all the same problems with internal coordination that any movement has they aren't all on the same page and they don't all take orders from the same source
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I think there is an... instinctive hostility, among highly-placed bureaucrats, towards those who Do Things. You don't need a conspiracy or central coordination to push a bunch of people in the same direction if all those people have the same *attitudes*.
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Replying to @CoughsOnWombats @ded_ruckus and
I *think* I see this kind of shared-attitude among government bureaucrats, but I'm *pretty damn sure* it's a thing *in general*, that it sometimes enables coordination absent conspiracy, and that it makes conspiracies *easier* on the margin.
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I agree this is a thing in general, but it's unlikely to have changed between December and February such that SN9 was delayed by a conspiracy when SN8 wasn't.
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You haven't noticed any significant events between December 2020 and February 2021 that might have an effect on the attitude of USG bureaucrats making them feel like they answer to no one?
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I think that the actual effect of a change of administration on the composition and behavior of low-level bureaucracies is small. This is basically orthodox NRx, right? The single salient fact about the Trump administration is that he didn't successfully cow the bureaucracies.
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