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They get a lot of public funds to do this shit. There are plenty of reasons to be critical of them. Maybe a bit of bureaucracy could be useful. I'm just sick of
by stuntkite 5y ago
They get a lot of public funds to do this shit. There are plenty of reasons to be critical of them. Maybe a bit of bureaucracy could be useful. I'm just sick of the worship of these guys like they built the damn things with their own hands or even out of their own pocket books. It's a playground and anything they do achieve is now their IP even though they've leveraged the resources of the greater population to pull it off for just some whacky stunts.
Space tourism is ridiculous.
I saw your edit. It's ok. Just so you know, you'll never get to space.
- NavinF 5y agoPublic funds? Citation needed. Are we even talking about the same company?
- stuntkite 5y agoWith a quick google: https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/12/01/nasa-taps-virgin-galactic-and-a-peer-for-45-millio/ https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/12/01/nasa-taps-virgin-g... https://spacenews.com/virgin-galactic-signs-contract-for-suborbital-research-mission/ https://spacenews.com/virgin-galactic-signs-contract-for-sub... https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/5/21248289/virgin-galactic-q1-earnings-supersonic-travel-space-tourism-60-million-loss https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/5/21248289/virgin-galactic-q... https://investors.virgingalactic.com/news/news-details/2021/Virgin-Galactic-Announces-New-Contract-for-Human-tended-Research-Spaceflight/default.aspx https://investors.virgingalactic.com/news/news-details/2021/... https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-awards-contract-for-flight-and-integration-services https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-awards-contract-for-... https://newrepublic.com/article/160500/elon-musks-big-government-grift#:~:text=A%202015%20Los%20Angeles%20Times,effects%20of%20the%20Great%20Recession https://newrepublic.com/article/160500/elon-musks-big-govern.... https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/government-verify/senate-isnt-trying-to-give-blue-origin-bailout/536-cf500f1f-f4eb-40e2-8dfb-520f96b83272 https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/government-ve...
- NavinF 5y agoThose are contacts. NASA is buying a service (hauling some tech to space and testing it) because it would be more expensive for NASA to do this by itself. Even if NASA had more funding, paying a company that can carry out the task more efficiently would still be the right thing to do I'll go ahead and leave this thread. You're being extremely disingenuous with your evidence and just throwing stuff at the wall hoping something will stick
- stuntkite 5y agoI don't know how you think that contracts from public funds aren't public funding but I'll agree to also leave this conversation and I appreciate you having it with me. I'm not being sarcastic either. I think it's important to talk about this stuff and I respect your perspective.
- jazzyjackson 5y agoRight, NASA is spending public funds to buy services from these companies, they are not exploring space out of their own petty cash
- systemvoltage 5y agoWrong. NASA uses hundreds of suppliers. It’s not like NASA gets a budget and can just work alone to make things happen. Everything that government does has a whole supply chain behind it.
- jazzyjackson 5y agoSorry what an I wrong about again? NASA is funded by taxpayers, and SpaceX, Virgin, and blue origin are funded (in part) by NASA. Maybe my grammar was sloppy, I mean to say Bezos, Branson, and Musk are not the ones writing (all) the checks.