Tony Bark@pawb.social to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoUS Government Gives Elon Musk Permission to Detonate Rockets Over a Sacred Hawaian Islandfuturism.comexternal-linkmessage-square88fedilinkarrow-up1543arrow-down115
arrow-up1528arrow-down1external-linkUS Government Gives Elon Musk Permission to Detonate Rockets Over a Sacred Hawaian Islandfuturism.comTony Bark@pawb.social to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square88fedilink
minus-squareBlameTheAntifa@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down5·1 day agoBillionaire toys ≠ people
minus-squarerc__buggy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down16·1 day agoWell then shut the whole thing down.
minus-squarecurbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·1 day agoIdeally, yes.
minus-squarerc__buggy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down9·1 day agoNo more satellites? No more space missions?
minus-squarecurbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 day agoBy spacex? Yes. No more from them.
minus-squareThe Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·1 day agoruining earth does not justify the shit missions spacex does making our orbits more hostile to real science
minus-squarerc__buggy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down6·1 day agoI’m unaware, AFAIK SpaceX is the leading launch provider in the world, taking the place of NASA. Is that a good thing? Probably not but if we’re not going to fund it at a government level someone has to do it.
minus-squareVandals_handle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoSpace X has received over $20 billion of funding from the us federal government. We are funding at a government level.
Billionaire toys ≠ people
Well then shut the whole thing down.
Ideally, yes.
No more satellites? No more space missions?
By spacex?
Yes. No more from them.
ruining earth does not justify the shit missions spacex does making our orbits more hostile to real science
I’m unaware, AFAIK SpaceX is the leading launch provider in the world, taking the place of NASA. Is that a good thing? Probably not but if we’re not going to fund it at a government level someone has to do it.
Space X has received over $20 billion of funding from the us federal government. We are funding at a government level.