Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoWe Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlinkjacobin.comexternal-linkmessage-square495linkfedilinkarrow-up11.2Karrow-down1115
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minus-squareChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down3·4 days ago all taxpayer money anyway Yes but with very little to show for it. If the government just treated all undelivered orders as debt, it would end up deep in the red.
minus-squareBalex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·4 days agoWhat do you mean little to show for it?
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·4 days agoReusable rockets are cool
minus-squareChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down7·4 days agoNever lived up to the hype. Take almost as much effort to get ready for another flight as building another one.
minus-squareobviouspornalt@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·3 days agoI’m no Musk apologist, but this statement is nowhere close to being true. https://www.inverse.com/innovation/spacex-elon-musk-falcon-9-economics
Yes but with very little to show for it. If the government just treated all undelivered orders as debt, it would end up deep in the red.
What do you mean little to show for it?
Reusable rockets are cool
Never lived up to the hype. Take almost as much effort to get ready for another flight as building another one.
I’m no Musk apologist, but this statement is nowhere close to being true.
https://www.inverse.com/innovation/spacex-elon-musk-falcon-9-economics