The slap fight between Donald Trump and Elon Musk has highlighted the absurdity of keeping so much of our space program and satellite internet infrastructure in the hands of a single oligarch.
When NASA was developing the rocket to go to the moon (the Apollo V) they had their large shares of failures, exactly like SpaceX is having now while developing Starship (and before it, the Falcon 9) which is even more complex and bigger than the Apollo V.
this is a specious comparison. NASA was racing the soviets using 1950 and 60’s tech, and it cost lives, but there was a driving motivation for the tempo (kennedy’s goal of humans on the moon first). There’s no contemporary equivalent. And no NASA director was EVER ON HORSE DRUGS. Period.
Your comparison is invalid.
Only if you could link the fact that Musk is on horse drugs with the fact that Starship explodes.
The starting point was that I dismissed the point that Musk is ruining SpaceX (since Starship’s test are not that good) and the fact that he is on drugs.
Nor did any NASA director ever try to manage multiple fortune 500 companies WHILE on ketamine while DANCING AROUND WITH A CHAINSAW and fucking with our government.
I don’t see the problem: NASA was a state agency, SpaceX is private.
What I can see from here is that Musk is doing the right thing (trying to make the government more efficient and cheaper) using a completely wrong method, to which I agree.
Wait, do you really think that Musk is the one that is doing all the jobs at Tesla and SpaceX ?
No, I think he’s distorting the work of thousands of talented people (Shotwell down) for EGO. If he truly cared he’d step down.
I don’t think it could do it anymore, at least not to the level you think.
Musk represents a larger threat to SpaceX and NASA and the US than any potential benefit to those same parties.
I am not sure. What I think from here (Europe) is that, as I said, Musk is doing the right thing in the wrong (very wrong) way if we speak about DOGE. If we speak about SpaceX and Tesla, well, it don’t seems to do that bad after all.
I don’t see the problem: NASA was a state agency, SpaceX is private.
lives are literally at stake, grow the fuck up.
And incidentally SpaceX is the only US entity to have a ship certified for human flight. Where is the Dragon’s equivalent of NASA ? Or any other company/state agency.
Elon Musk decided to wreck USAID. The death toll is ghoulish.
An agency created in the 1960’s to fight URSS influence. Maybe it is time to let it go and start with something else, don’t you think ?
Or maybe it is time that US start to think that without everyone else it is nothing and begin to be an reliable ally and not one that can change idea every 2 years.
This dickwad said “the fundamental weakness of western civilization is empathy”.
To be honest, empathy is something you should be aware of after a certain point.
Only if you could link the fact that Musk is on horse drugs with the fact that Starship explodes.
The starting point was that I dismissed the point that Musk is ruining SpaceX (since Starship’s test are not that good) and the fact that he is on drugs.
I don’t see the problem: NASA was a state agency, SpaceX is private.
What I can see from here is that Musk is doing the right thing (trying to make the government more efficient and cheaper) using a completely wrong method, to which I agree.
I don’t think it could do it anymore, at least not to the level you think.
I am not sure. What I think from here (Europe) is that, as I said, Musk is doing the right thing in the wrong (very wrong) way if we speak about DOGE. If we speak about SpaceX and Tesla, well, it don’t seems to do that bad after all.
lives are literally at stake, grow the fuck up.
Elon Musk decided to wreck USAID. The death toll is ghoulish. This dickwad said “the fundamental weakness of western civilization is empathy”.
haha tesla is cratering in the EU and that cybertruck sure is a winner. pfft
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-sales-europe-plunge-backlash-protests-elon-musk/
https://futurism.com/cybertruck-sales-bad
You are so detached from reality it’s disgusting. This discussion has been absolutely pointless.
And incidentally SpaceX is the only US entity to have a ship certified for human flight. Where is the Dragon’s equivalent of NASA ? Or any other company/state agency.
An agency created in the 1960’s to fight URSS influence. Maybe it is time to let it go and start with something else, don’t you think ?
Or maybe it is time that US start to think that without everyone else it is nothing and begin to be an reliable ally and not one that can change idea every 2 years.
To be honest, empathy is something you should be aware of after a certain point.
But whatever…