• yeahiknow3@lemmings.world
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    9 months ago

    Yes. We could have had reusable rockets 30 years ago if we funded NASA properly. We chose not to. Now, decades later we got a private company managed by man-children accountable to no one burning billions and billions in play money exploding shit in a manner that NASA would never be allowed to do until they finally, by some miracle, got a reusable rocket, and we’re all acting like “omg how amazing.” Give me a break. Not to mention that now we just have a bunch of trash in space.

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        9 months ago

        But I don’t think it has changed for the better. Private industry can now cheaply and easily put trash in space, something they’ve been doing at a stunning rate. Literally nothing good can come of this at all.

        This isn’t about Musk. If Bernie Sanders owned SpaceX I’d be saying the same thing. I do not want private citizens to have the power to launch objects into space. Period. Unless those objects are themselves and the target is the sun.