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zitterbewegung
on Oct 13, 2024
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Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video...
The purpose of funding SpaceX with taxpayer money is to make competitors that can launch rockets to space so that it is cheaper.
mempko
on Oct 13, 2024
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Exactly. Private companies like space X would not exist if NASA didn't deliberately make the market for Private space companies. That's what governments do, make markets.
cryptonector
on Oct 13, 2024
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Elon founded SpaceX w/o an expectation of subsidies.
mempko
on Oct 19, 2024
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How do you know he didn't lobby for them?
mmustapic
on Oct 14, 2024
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And yet, without the funding for CRS from NASA Spacex would’ve gone broke or at least wouldn have built F9 much much later.
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