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space should be a government-only thing

• lom 3y ago
  Why? Doesn’t this prove that it’s beneficial to have private companies in space too.
  • nektro 3y ago
    no. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/19/us/politics/elon-musk-white-house-pentagon.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/19/us/politics/elon-musk-whi... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/07/elon-musk-ordered-starlink-turned-off-ukraine-offensive-biography https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/07/elon-musk...
    • panick21_ 3y ago
      Pretty hilarious that your 'argument' is a opinion piece and the other is literally just an article that the newspaper itself has corrected because its false.
• umeshunni 3y ago
  It has been for the last 75 years, and there has been pretty much no progress for the last 50.
  • panick21_ 3y ago
    Except of course it has not been a government only thing for 75 years. What are you even talking about? > The world's first commercial communications satellite, called Intelsat I and nicknamed "Early Bird", was launched into geosynchronous orbit on April 6, 1965.