NASA administrator Bill Nelson called for an investigation into a report that Elon Musk has been having secret conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin while dually involved in classified intelligence contracts with the U.S. government.

“I don’t know that that story is true. I think it should be investigated,” Nelson said Fridayat a Semafor conference in Washington. “If the story’s true, that there have been multiple conversations between Elon Musk and the president of Russia, then I think that would be concerning, particularly for NASA, the Department of Defense, for some of the intelligence agencies.”

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And all of his tax breaks too please

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Better: maybe this gives SpaceX leverage to boot Musk and get away from the madness before the X fiasco sinks Tesla

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This is great, assuming Nelson or someone similar is NASA Admin after January and not Elon Musk. That’s a fucking terrifying thought.

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I’d like someone else as NASA admin tbh… We need to axe the SLS.

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How can someone with that much money look like such a dork?

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It’s the ugly growth on his neck. If he would just get that removed, we’d all like him much more.

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His head? I know! Ew

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I think you’re giving too much credit to surgery. He’d still be a huge dork. That little flap of skin didn’t dress him in the morning.

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I assumed they were referring to his head…

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Because it’s not the money, it’s the autism.

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Ooo please tell me Musk leaked some secrets… please tell me he’s about to get a dank cell someplace…. Unpleasant.

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Hmm… I want him to be in a dark cell, but I also don’t want Russia to have any advantages because of what he did.

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Russia is collapsing, probably somewhere around 2025-2026, hi-tech won’t help them. So as a trade-off I’d take a little secret to putin for an unpleasant cell for musko.

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Then they sell that info to China. I’m still not happy about it. But I’ll take it if it means Musk in a cell.

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Ohhhh boy. Don’t fuck with the space program.

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The severely under funded space program? Oh yeah, that things super valued.

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Well, NASA sometimes works with sensitive info and projects of which sometimes can get shared with their contractors, SpaceX included. Having Musk going through with his escapades, acting otherwise unstably, and now talking with an unfriendly figure to the US. It starts to raise some serious questions regarding national security. NASA is more or less just bringing it to attention.

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Just because they’re underfunded doesn’t mean they lack teeth. SpaceX isn’t launching in the US without them.

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They’re underfunded mainly because Congress would rather spend money through SpaceX instead of NADA, because they can make money from SpaceX and other private goons. NASA benefits all Americans, which is just Communism…

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Lol, everything in the states is under funded with the exception of the military, so it’s a good thing the military doesn’t need to send anything to space.

Edit: Apparently I dropped this /s

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Our entire intelligence network is dependent on the space program because satellites.

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