Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 weeks ago
That would literally be the worse thing that could happen with regards to them, because they only exist and thrived because they are private enterprise. If the government were capable of doing what those companies do and doing it well, SpaceX and Starlink wouldn’t exist in the first place.
Can you even imagine just how much money would be wasted and misused and unaccounted for, while nothing actually got done?
Anyone who thinks this is a good idea is delusional
Again someone who thinks that public policies are natural laws…
NASA could do and did do what SpaceX is doing now, but they are beholden to the government and if the government says “we don’t do that for ideologigal reasons” then it doesn’t matter what can be done.
Ideological reasons? You think nasa hasn’t made reusable self landing rockets and boosters because of ideological reasons?
freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Please. They only exist because of government funding. If NASA had as many rockets explode as SpaceX has, people like you would be screaming about the waste of taxpayer dollars.
Also, it’s only a matter of time before starlink satellites crash into each other and start a chain reaction. You can kiss space travel goodbye after that.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
isn’t it amazing how much private companies can do when given hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars from the federal teat?
wow. that private enterprise just rocketing up out of the atmosphere by yanking on it’s bootstraps so hard.
just, you know, after a few more hundred million, burp. ahem. just a few more.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 weeks ago
And isn’t it amazing how little government entities can do despite being given the same or more taxpayer dollars from the federal teat?
Private enterprise gets shit done because if they don’t they go out of business and people lose their jobs, money, and livelihood. Government departments don’t get shit done because they’ll all keep their jobs and their pensions and their benefits no matter what. Again - NASA vs SpaceX.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 weeks ago
The point of the launches that have ended in explosion were to test various parts of the systems and hardware, and to learn if/when a “disaster” does happen. That’s how you improve things, make them better and safer. Would you prefer when we finally send people to the moon or to Mars that it’s the first time we’ve launched that rocket? Those explosions weren’t bad things.
freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Are you for real? Can you guess how many Saturn V rockets ended up exploding throughout the first mission to put man on the moon? Trick question, the answer was ZERO.
The Saturn V program had completed more successful milestones in 1 year than SpaceX has managed in 5 year.
SpaceX has been late on every single deliverable to NASA. They were supposed to show they can reliably perform the propellant transfer for the NASA contract, and instead Musk focused on testing the deployment of starlink satellites, which of course failed. And now they lost one more on the pad getting fueled up.
It’s complete incompetence, which is the one thing Musk can guarantee
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 days ago
How many of those Saturn V rockets landed themselves back on the launch pad?
NASAs milestones were not the same as, nor anywhere near as hard as, SpaceX’s.