It is far better to dismantle these dumb grifts than to nationalize them.
Comment on [Opinion] We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Honestly surprising to see the ratio here. Downvoters, I’m curious about your rationale.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 week ago
Downvotes aren’t for disagreeing with the headline lol
My guess is corporations or conservatives don’t like Jacobin?
StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
The only time the government is willing to spend money on space exploration ( or anything for that matter) is if they are trying to play a game of “Im better then you” with other nations.
We have a public space agency in the US and they have done jack all in maned space exploration since the end of the Apollo program. And what little they have done has been massively overpriced.
In my opinion , it’s best to have both public and commercial space flight programs. Greed in two different directions might actually accomplish something and I strongly believe that we need a STRONG space presence not just in our own solar system but in many systems throughout the galaxy for our own survival as a species.
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Interesting. Thank you for sharing your perspective.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Perhaps a more important motivation is threatening the entire planet with doomsday.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
NASA budget is nonexistent and everytime they start working on something meaningful they are forced to cancel the project due to funding cuts. It was at 4.41% of the federal spending during the peak of Apollo mission, it’s 0.3% today.
SpaceX on the other hand enjoys those government handouts for doing nothing and reusing public tech, research and even personel (after Musk himself was able to fire those people) from NASA.
P.S. NASA missions might cost more, but they also don’t explode as a way to “test shit”. Public reaction to that would be a lot different, no?