• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
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    10 days ago

    I’m fine with national space programs and whatnot.

    Are you aware of just how much of NASA’s budget was being drained for bullshit ‘cost+’ contracts with Boeing et al?

    Elon sucks, but spacex has progressed space tech significantly, at a much lower cost than before.

    National space programs are great, but the US turned them into a kickbacks program.

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      10 days ago

      SpaceX is a garbage company that only proves my point. It’s a leech of taxpayers’ money for private gains.

      NASA has achieved much more, much more time ago. If it wasn’t for the brain-drain caused by SpaceX, and the cashflow that was directed away from it, it could’ve been much more useful.

      Now all we get is the dickhead and his followers exploding rockets “to Mars” (lmao) for shits and giggles.