The slap fight between Donald Trump and Elon Musk has highlighted the absurdity of keeping so much of our space program and satellite internet infrastructure in the hands of a single oligarch.
  • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    What “they made” 50 years ago is of little value now. Expertise matters, and it’s lost with time passing.

    Still - yes. Nationalization is a bad solution because it gives the state power to nationalize. Seems a truism.

    Just let NASA work in its normal role. Instead of replacing that with SpaceX contracts.