NASA does not need SpaceX. Never will. What NASA needs is for the rich white assholes in DC to stop fucking them over with predatory contractors for five goddamn minutes.
And also proper funding
SpaceX needs NASA contacts now now than ever. The jerk’s AI business has been shoved into SpaceX, and that’s a money burning machine. Should NASA take one too many contracts away from SpaceX, the huge red numbers will come out.
This result was inevitable the monent that the government decided to outsource their space exploration/scientific endeavors to a private company.
You don’t need to be Cassandra to be able to recognize 100% predictable outcomes.
This is why you don’t privatize space exploration and research
privatize space expiration
Dear god
Fixed, I still can’t find a good mobile keyboard
Revoke launch licenses until NASA gets what they need. Export ban on company and tech. Nationalize launch assets if absolutely necessary. Or at least threaten these things. SpaceX needs starlink, the kind of AI revenue they’d otherwise need is never going to materialize. Force them to play ball.
Musk also desperately needs that starlink revenue to continue until he can merge Tesla and SpaceX to cover for dropping Tesla sales.
And who will make these restrictions? Until someone shoots trump, that’s not going to happen. Hopefully it happens soon.
Yeah that’ll happen. I’ll just stay standing while holding my breath until it does.
Nationalize Space X after all these pedophiles are in prison, lol.
NASA helped keep SpaceX alive when it couldn’t make payroll, then spent decades making it indispensable. Now Musk has discovered that launching AI servers pays better than launching astronauts. Outsourcing your space program to one billionaire was a bold leap for mankind, straight into a monopoly with rocket engines.
I don’t think it was intentional on NASA, Boeing couldn’t really deliver with starliner and SLS isn’t as good as they hoped either.
Both are failed companies, but Musk has more money on hand and can keep the lights on for longer.
SLS is a congressionally mandated jobs program.
NASA was forced to use existing shuttle infrastructure instead of developing new hardware with partners. If they had been given freedom, I’m sure we wouldn’t even need SpaceX for anything.
I need a comic of a man struggling to raise a child, then the child grows big and strong (roided up and addicted to debt) then punts the aging man off a cliff.
This is some Borderlands megacorporation bullshit I tell ya.
The only reason I’ve been critical of NASA is because of their over reliance on that shit heel musk
Fuck anything musk related.
Before SpaceX it was the ULA doing ALL launches. This is nothing new. Launch is expensive, and no one wants to pay the barrier to entry.
Exactly. NASA bankrolled SpaceX to break the ULA monopoly, and now they are also funding Blue Origin to break the SpaceX monopoly. Rinse and repeat forever.
So nationalize spacex, and never outsource key capabilities again.
The despairing thing is how quickly this has come to pass.
