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[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 100 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Has anyone considered funding NASA?

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

[–] Uruanna@lemmy.world 35 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Sure, that's the ideal.

Is it likely? Ehhhh

[–] Uruanna@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

From this admin? Nah. It'll be stolen and given to, idk, Thiel or Vance or whoever, but not nationalized, just reprivatized.

[–] roserose56@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 days ago

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

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Where's the grift tho? What's the angle? How will this enrich an uber-privileged pale bro?

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days 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 1 points 5 days ago

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

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days 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.