Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agoWe Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlinkjacobin.comexternal-linkmessage-square137fedilinkarrow-up1722arrow-down174
arrow-up1648arrow-down1external-linkWe Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlinkjacobin.comPro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square137fedilink
minus-squareDeflated0ne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up62·6 days agoHas anyone considered funding NASA? They made rockets that didn’t explode with duct tape and a TI-83 calculator.
minus-squareUruanna@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·6 days agoShouldn’t be incompatible with nationalizing SpaceX and Starlink. Just give it all to NASA, actually.
minus-squareRose56@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 days agoThey didn’t, because someone got paid to write this article!
minus-squarerottingleaf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·5 days 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.
They didn’t, because someone got paid to write this article!
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.