Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoWe Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlinkjacobin.comexternal-linkmessage-square218fedilinkarrow-up1931arrow-down192
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minus-squareDeflated0ne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up88·1 month agoHas anyone considered funding NASA? They made rockets that didn’t explode with duct tape and a TI-83 calculator.
minus-squareUruanna@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·1 month agoShouldn’t be incompatible with nationalizing SpaceX and Starlink. Just give it all to NASA, actually.
minus-squareVanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 month agoSure, that’s the ideal. Is it likely? Ehhhh
minus-squareUruanna@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-21 month agoFrom this admin? Nah. It’ll be stolen and given to, idk, Thiel or Vance or whoever, but not nationalized, just reprivatized.
minus-squareRose56@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·1 month agoThey didn’t, because someone got paid to write this article!
minus-squarewewbull@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 month agoIf that was actually their expenditure I don’t think they’d have their budget cut.
minus-squarerottingleaf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 month agoWhat “they made” 50 years ago is of little value now. Expertise matters, and it’s lost with time passing. Still - yes. Nationalization is a bad solution because it gives the state power to nationalize. Seems a truism. Just let NASA work in its normal role. Instead of replacing that with SpaceX contracts.
Has anyone considered funding NASA?
They made rockets that didn’t explode with duct tape and a TI-83 calculator.
Shouldn’t be incompatible with nationalizing SpaceX and Starlink. Just give it all to NASA, actually.
Sure, that’s the ideal.
Is it likely? Ehhhh
From this admin? Nah. It’ll be stolen and given to, idk, Thiel or Vance or whoever, but not nationalized, just reprivatized.
They didn’t, because someone got paid to write this article!
If that was actually their expenditure I don’t think they’d have their budget cut.
What “they made” 50 years ago is of little value now. Expertise matters, and it’s lost with time passing.
Still - yes. Nationalization is a bad solution because it gives the state power to nationalize. Seems a truism.
Just let NASA work in its normal role. Instead of replacing that with SpaceX contracts.