Then why does NASA, even before Trump, keep giving contracts to SpaceX? Space X did the one thing no government agency ever has an incentive to do: they lowered costs drastically. That’s the thing SpaceX did and that’s the only thing they need to do to run circles around NASA because that’s the true barrier to viable space exploration and mining etc.
The problem with a lot of people like you is that you cannot separate your disdain for a figurehead from the achievements of their organizations and you think attacking that is the same as attacking the figurehead. In a word you are simple. And you grossly oversimplify something like being able to catch the rocket again on landing, and it speaks volumes of your inability or unwillingness to be unbiased for political reasons as if that were going to change the objective truth. I don’t like Musk any more than you do, but what SpaceX has done NASA failed to do for decades. Nationalization is never a solution for anything and if it is please point to a single instance in which nationalizing anything led to cost reductions and increases in efficiency and better service. Because it’s never the case. Now I could argue in favor of public healthcare but that’s a very different from space exploration and tech.
Think objectively about things, don’t just say things to echo the hivemind.
They keep giving contracts to SpaceX because that’s the way the budgets are mandated from congress. They have X amount of money to distribute. Everything goes to generally the lowest bidder, and because there are only a handful of options, they have to keep using one contractor to produce their parts because it’s even more expensive to keep switching.
So drop the attitude. Usually the worst bidder gets the job, and it ends up costing more money after everything is said and done.
I think you severely discount NASA’s achievements. I would wager the stagnation of NASA and the subsequent rise of SpaceX was largely due to a lack of funding for NASA and waning public interest and lack of leadership.
I doubt the public would have tolerated the idea blowing up rockets until it worked as a good use of tax payer dollars. So did NASA fail us, or did the public fail NASA?
Think objectively about things, don’t just say things to echo the hivemind.
Fuck off with the notion that everything that contradicts your opinion is the “hivemind.” It is supremely condescending and toxic to pretend you’re the only one capable of independent thought.
Did I ever say or imply that everything that contradicts my opinion is of the hive mind? Because I don’t think I did. But this particular trope of trying to flatten any of the achievements of Musk’s companies simply because they are associated with him and calling for their nationalization is a tiresome talking point of the online “left” that simply parrots whatever everyone else “on their side” is supposed to think because it has leftie vibes. It’s as brain dead a take as any you would find on a Magatard community.
And I do need to point out that nationalization is not inherently socialist or left wing at all.
Then why does NASA, even before Trump, keep giving contracts to SpaceX? Space X did the one thing no government agency ever has an incentive to do: they lowered costs drastically. That’s the thing SpaceX did and that’s the only thing they need to do to run circles around NASA because that’s the true barrier to viable space exploration and mining etc.
The problem with a lot of people like you is that you cannot separate your disdain for a figurehead from the achievements of their organizations and you think attacking that is the same as attacking the figurehead. In a word you are simple. And you grossly oversimplify something like being able to catch the rocket again on landing, and it speaks volumes of your inability or unwillingness to be unbiased for political reasons as if that were going to change the objective truth. I don’t like Musk any more than you do, but what SpaceX has done NASA failed to do for decades. Nationalization is never a solution for anything and if it is please point to a single instance in which nationalizing anything led to cost reductions and increases in efficiency and better service. Because it’s never the case. Now I could argue in favor of public healthcare but that’s a very different from space exploration and tech.
Think objectively about things, don’t just say things to echo the hivemind.
They keep giving contracts to SpaceX because that’s the way the budgets are mandated from congress. They have X amount of money to distribute. Everything goes to generally the lowest bidder, and because there are only a handful of options, they have to keep using one contractor to produce their parts because it’s even more expensive to keep switching.
So drop the attitude. Usually the worst bidder gets the job, and it ends up costing more money after everything is said and done.
Section 3 Point B.
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20200001093/downloads/20200001093.pdf
I think you severely discount NASA’s achievements. I would wager the stagnation of NASA and the subsequent rise of SpaceX was largely due to a lack of funding for NASA and waning public interest and lack of leadership.
I doubt the public would have tolerated the idea blowing up rockets until it worked as a good use of tax payer dollars. So did NASA fail us, or did the public fail NASA?
Section 3 Point B.
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20200001093/downloads/20200001093.pdf
Fuck off with the notion that everything that contradicts your opinion is the “hivemind.” It is supremely condescending and toxic to pretend you’re the only one capable of independent thought.
Did I ever say or imply that everything that contradicts my opinion is of the hive mind? Because I don’t think I did. But this particular trope of trying to flatten any of the achievements of Musk’s companies simply because they are associated with him and calling for their nationalization is a tiresome talking point of the online “left” that simply parrots whatever everyone else “on their side” is supposed to think because it has leftie vibes. It’s as brain dead a take as any you would find on a Magatard community.
And I do need to point out that nationalization is not inherently socialist or left wing at all.