Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoWe Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlinkjacobin.comexternal-linkmessage-square504fedilinkarrow-up11.2Karrow-down1118
arrow-up11.08Karrow-down1external-linkWe Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlinkjacobin.comPro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square504fedilink
minus-squareChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down3·2 months ago all taxpayer money anyway Yes but with very little to show for it. If the government just treated all undelivered orders as debt, it would end up deep in the red.
minus-squareBalex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·2 months agoWhat do you mean little to show for it?
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·2 months agoReusable rockets are cool
minus-squareChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down7·2 months agoNever lived up to the hype. Take almost as much effort to get ready for another flight as building another one.
minus-squareobviouspornalt@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·2 months agoI’m no Musk apologist, but this statement is nowhere close to being true. https://www.inverse.com/innovation/spacex-elon-musk-falcon-9-economics
Yes but with very little to show for it. If the government just treated all undelivered orders as debt, it would end up deep in the red.
What do you mean little to show for it?
Reusable rockets are cool
Never lived up to the hype. Take almost as much effort to get ready for another flight as building another one.
I’m no Musk apologist, but this statement is nowhere close to being true.
https://www.inverse.com/innovation/spacex-elon-musk-falcon-9-economics