Comment on NASA finally admits what everyone already knows: SLS is unaffordable

• SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s just hate for musk, people who hate musk have blinders on and think every company he has any input into is a scam.

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  • topinambour_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not a scam, but a tool to help enemies of the democracy.

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    • photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      SpaceX is a tool that directly aids democracy. Without it, we still wouldn’t have independent access to space. We would be relying on the Russian Soyuz to carry us to the ISS, and due to the current situation, I don’t think they’d have let us continue riding the Soyuz if we didn’t have our own method.

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      • wagoner@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        What does the iss have to do with democracy?

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      • topinambour_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        SpaceX existed before Musk bought it. It could have ended being used by the NASA. Then you seem to forget the ESA and their Ariane launchers.

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  • linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nah, I hate musk as much as the rest of them. SpaceX is the only company he has that’s worth a damn. I was really kind of happy when he started screwing with Twitter because he has less time to screw up SpaceX.

    Now, that said, SpaceX needs competition. I will take us for musk to have one bad trip hop in there and start screwing that company over. If NASA is fully dependent on them…

    SpaceX isn’t doing anything another company can’t do. It’s just that Boeing owns our f****** government.

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    • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So Tesla and starlink don’t count?

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      • linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Starlink is horrible on many fronts. Just the amount of trash they’ve thrown into low orbit is crap. Short-term disposable satellites are not great. Now he’s taking and giving access based on his own political wants.

        Tesla’s a pretty mixed bag. Privacy issues, quality issues, resell issues, repair issues, self-driving car failures. All the other stuff they do really well everybody else also does well.

        All this stuff started off really strong when he started going batshit crazy things started getting less attractive

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      • SMillerNL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Tesla is publicly traded and as far as I can tell Starlink is not a company but rather a SpaceX project.

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  • anlumo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    To be fair, based on his companies the odds of that bet are quite good.

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    • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So Tesla is a scam? SpaceX is a scam? Starlink is a scam? Wut???

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• postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Boeing used to be a good engineering firm.

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  • Ddhuud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes, up until mid 90s

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  • anlumo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As certified by Boeing?

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