• Deflated0ne@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Has anyone considered funding NASA?

    They made rockets that didn’t explode with duct tape and a TI-83 calculator.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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      7 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.

    • Uruanna@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Shouldn’t be incompatible with nationalizing SpaceX and Starlink. Just give it all to NASA, actually.

    • Rose56@lemmy.ca
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      1 day ago

      They didn’t, because someone got paid to write this article!

      • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
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        24 hours ago

        Looks like we found someone who believed it was financially necessary for the manufacture of the shuttle to be spread across the country.

    • wewbull@feddit.uk
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      1 day ago

      If that was actually their expenditure I don’t think they’d have their budget cut.