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> nationalization also lowers the ceiling on how good it can be How's that? What private company outshines, say, NASA (especially in its glory days)?
by MaxBarraclough 3y ago
> nationalization also lowers the ceiling on how good it can be
How's that? What private company outshines, say, NASA (especially in its glory days)?
- abduhl 3y agoIn what metric? SpaceX outshines them on launches. In fact, NASA has consistently outsourced design and construction to the private sector. The space shuttle? Privately built by Rockwell. Hubble? Lockheed. ISS module 1? Boeing.
- geoffreypoirier 3y agoHow about humans on the moon? NASA's still crushing SpaceX. (Glory days.)
- tekla 3y agoWhat does NASA build?
- dotnet00 3y agoIf we're leaning on an excuse like glory days, why do anything to Boeing either? After all, no one yet outshines their glory days of building classic planes and building the SaturnV?
- MaxBarraclough 3y agoI was responding to the suggestion that nationalization imposes a ceiling on quality.
- dotnet00 3y agoI understand that, but I don't agree that it makes sense to at all consider the "glory days" as indicative of the ceiling. As it isn't really relevant to discuss ceilings on quality in terms of exceptional circumstances. Just like how the "glory days" of many nations or many companies are when they're unsustainably burning resources for a short time for the sole purpose of glory. To me quality implies sustainability.
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