• LazaroFilm@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    Nationalizing SpaceX would turn it into nowadays NASA’s system which is risk zero and the expense of pushing the envelope and fast changes. SpaceX doesn’t mind blowing up 10 rockets while nasa will spend years to design one and launch it once.

    • Uniquitous@lemmy.one
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      12
      ·
      1 year ago

      It doesn’t behoove us to have one man be capable of derailing entire segments of our national policy at his whim, especially when that man was never elected to anything.

    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      1 year ago

      It’s not like they’d HAVE to continue with the same policy.

      B’sides, at least NASA doesn’t blow up a launch pad within a nature preserve just to stay on schedule…

      • HollandJim@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        SpaceX doesn’t mind blowing up living people, too

        Assuming /u/NeoNachtwaechter is conflating companies, lumping Starlink in with SpaceX. So that would make him a pro-Russian sympathizer. If not, describe and discuss your evidence.

        Just alluding to “people” means shit. Aligning with Putin is shit.

      • ripcord@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        What makes you say that?

        I mean, Elon, sure, but did the company overall do something I missed…?

        • Snapz@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          3
          ·
          1 year ago

          What makes you say that?

          Conversations with employees of that company

          • HollandJim@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            5
            ·
            1 year ago

            So no actual proof, eh?

            Look - IMHO, Elon and his cars are expensive garbage, but for real accusations on his character and business ethics/acumen to stick, you need to show proof - not hearsay.

            That’s the shit he sells.

        • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          3
          ·
          1 year ago

          Their way of working. It is like a software shop, for example the “fail fast” principle.

          This seems disruptive in the world of engineering, and it has caused many people wonder. But it is not the best way if you suddenly have living people sitting in the rockets.