SpaceX and all of Musk’s companies have received many tens of billions in government contracts, subsidies, and incentives and more are on the way.
The meme is right, but it’s WAY short of the amount of money SpaceX is getting.
Musk = POS Nazi.
musk is “a ponszi”
Look… I hate Musk as much as anyone. But SpaceX contracts are not the same as NPR grants.
Hopefully, you don’t mind coming across as a “bootlicker”.
NPR shouldn’t be losing anything, is the point.
Nor should PBS
Dude isn’t an American, he didn’t didn’t grow up with PBS- he’s not from here, he definitely doesn’t understand the cultural significance of PBS in the United States.
this is all stuff that nasa would do for cheaper instead, if they got the contracts instead.
cheaper because you wouldnt have to finance making him rich
I mean, we should be able to hate Elon Musk while still respect the fact that, SpaceX as a company has done incredible things.
You say NASA could’ve done it for cheaper, but their track record is not great. Apollo program, historical, but was very expensive. Then the Space Shuttle, then the SLS, they are all extremely expensive compared to, not just Falcon 9, but also Russia or China’s offerings.
I hate Musk but I am also passionate about space… So yeah, I don’t know how to process this. Maybe it’s fine for people to just believe SpaceX did nothing good as long as that gets more people to hate Musk… I really don’t know (help me)
…no? my source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_launch_market_competition#2010-2020s:_Competition_and_pricing_pressure and scroll down a bit to the chart with launch costs
the space shuttle sucked
The space shuttle was a mistake, but that is a laughably disingenuous route to claim that NASA couldn’t be doing these things for cheaper than private companies. Saturn V rocket launches were cheaper than space shuttle launches.
yeah but the falcon 9 and heavy are the cheapest ever compared to everything
I hate musk, don’t misunderstand me, but spaceX has done some incredible things with rocket reusability
You know NASA uses all kinds of private contractors too, right? Which means they are paying the “make someone rich” tax as well, just not to Musk.
That means we fix the loopholes and find a streamlined way to reach efficiency. It doesn’t mean we exploit the system because “well they do it too” while continuing to complain the system sucks. No, we actually fix the standing problems within our systems. Thats what should happen.
Tax the fucking rich.
Defund the parasite Musk, or since he is all about free speech maybe he should provide some funding to them.
