Comment on NASA finally admits what everyone already knows: SLS is unaffordable
SupraMario@lemmy.world 1 year agoIt’s just hate for musk, people who hate musk have blinders on and think every company he has any input into is a scam.
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.
So Tesla and starlink don’t count?
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
Tesla is publicly traded and as far as I can tell Starlink is not a company but rather a SpaceX project.
To be fair, based on his companies the odds of that bet are quite good.
So Tesla is a scam? SpaceX is a scam? Starlink is a scam? Wut???
topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not a scam, but a tool to help enemies of the democracy.
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.
wagoner@infosec.pub 1 year ago
What does the iss have to do with democracy?
photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
The ISS is an important international partnership with allies and rivals alike that strengthens the US’ position on the world stage. That the US is capable of maintaining such a complex system is an example of democracy’s value and the US’ soft power.
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.
photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
You’re conflating Tesla with SpaceX, Musk founded SpaceX in 2002. ESA doesn’t have a human spaceflight system.