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> Imagine what SpaceX could have produced for $21b A little under half the cost of destroying Twitter?
by bigiain 4y ago
> Imagine what SpaceX could have produced for $21b
A little under half the cost of destroying Twitter?
- aaa_aaa 4y agoYet, money was not taken from individuals' pockets.
- rob74 4y agoEr, doesn't NASA pay SpaceX for it's services? And where does NASA's funding come from again?
- aaa_aaa 4y agoIt's not the same thing. They can sell their services to anybody.
- Rebelgecko 4y agoNot without a lot of people going to jail for ITAR violations
- fragmede 4y agoassuming you're in the US, you pay taxes to the government, the government pays SpaceX to launch things, and SpaceX pays Twitter for advertising. Yay!
- yborg 4y agoSpaceX wouldn't exist without US government funding. "...NASA awarded the first Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract to SpaceX in December (2008), thus financially saving the company." Give the bureaucrats some credit.