It is rather incredible how dominant Falcon 9 is in the current launch market.

  • @Adalast
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    211 months ago

    You mean “ever return to nationalized”? Since space flight was entirely nationalized until what, a decade ago, decade and a half?

    • @[email protected]
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      011 months ago

      That’s a really disingenuous way to put it. No private company or conglomerate could bring the economic scientific and manufacturing abilities the US could; fuck, very few countries to this date can. And even then it was still a public private partnership, the same defense companies and ICBM manufacturers built the rockets we rode to the moon.

      Strange take but shrug, whatever.

      • @Chriswild
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        311 months ago

        I think this is more disingenuous if anything. The US has always relied on contracts with private industry to do much of anything. So to say the US should nationalize something is to say a public private partnership should be made. Even if you completely nationalize SpaceX their suppliers would still be needed and it would still be a partnership.

        Might I also add that you saying “we rode to the moon” while also advocating for private ownership is particularly ironic.

        • @[email protected]
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          -211 months ago

          hey if today were 1969 we’d be groovy baby,

          but time fucking change eh?

          It’s not the days of North American Aviation or Douglas anymore lol - they don’t exist. Technology changes.

          Supposing the only way things could possibly be done in 1950-1970 should be the only way we do them in the future is pretty dim.

          So enjoy your irony, it’s glad you’re finding joy in the world even with such limited faculties.