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No government is going to "take on spacex" because what works for spacex is to act in all the ways, good and bad, a gov entity would never do. Such projects wo
by BiteCode_dev 3y ago
No government is going to "take on spacex" because what works for spacex is to act in all the ways, good and bad, a gov entity would never do.
Such projects would work much better if they would instead relyon the strength of govs instead of being a fish trying to follow a bird.
Of course, attempting to do it anyway and failing miserably while transferring the public money into parasites is a very gov thing to do.
So it will happen.
- electriclove 3y agoStrength of the govs to do what??
- BiteCode_dev 3y agoStability, long time horizons, can adapt the law to their need, a communication on patriotism, no incentive to squeeze money out of every step, employees protection... Every weakness can be a strenght depending of the context. Good profiles that would not consider working in high pressure, high risk envs like spacex can be interested in gov projects.
- electriclove 3y agoBeen there, done that.. reality plays out quite differently as evidenced by the stagnation of NASA versus the commercial space industry in the US.
- BiteCode_dev 3y agoCounter point, spacex wouldn't do this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37995119 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37995119
- electriclove 3y agoI’m sure they totally could if they had assets out that far.