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And I’m tired of seeing people worship private entities whose entire success story is dependent entirely on government work. Not just funding, but work (e.g. pa
by sidlls 6y ago
And I’m tired of seeing people worship private entities whose entire success story is dependent entirely on government work. Not just funding, but work (e.g. past research).
A business that lives only with government support is a de facto government entity.
Sorry that facts offend you.
- pfdietz 6y agoYou seem to be confusing a program that exists because of the government funding the development, and a commercial program that exists in part because the government is one of the buyers of its product. Falcon 9 certainly benefited from the government buying launches, but the project was done with private investment. This is very different from how Atlas, Delta, the Shuttle, etc. were developed. NASA (and DOD) continues to buy launches from SpaceX, but that's no more a subsidy than them buying pizza from Dominoes.
- sidlls 6y agoYou seem to be deliberately ignoring the parts of my comments that aren't concerned with funding/money at all.
- pfdietz 6y agoYour objection seems to be utterly without merit, in that case. Oh noez, SpaceX sold rockets to NASA, so nothing it did is admirable! And most Falcon launches are not for the government, you know.