The billionaire wants to advance his political program while preserving his power and wealth

15 points

Elon Musk has trouble elevating his own rocket. He sure as hell isn’t elevating anything in terms of political discourse…

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I can’t stand Musk, but SpaceX is going really well, so I’m not sure what that’s supposed to mean… If you’re referring to Starship, they didn’t expect it to work 100% on the first few tries (unlike some media, who report on it as if they failed).

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This may be an unpopular opinion but corporate space flight is stupid at this point in humanity’s history.

Any efficiencies that can be pointed to come from skirting regulations in ways NASA can’t or from stock assumptions that might lead to foreign sales and or monopoly, which should be a consideration no matter whose doing it… if it’s illegal for NASA to sell space IP to another company, than it should be for any company.

People say government doesn’t work, but we have never had a chance to see it work with Republicans throwing albatrosses across it’s neck and cutting at its heals and slashing their hamstrings at any chance they get.

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Stupid at this point in humanity’s history? Why should it be stupid to make it cheaper to fly payloads into space when we have unprecedented demand for renewable energy? Without interference of the atmosphere we could harvest solar energy much more efficiently and reliably.

We are likely to see a space elevator build in 100 years and it will be a good thing for humanity. For example we’ll be able to remove nuclear waste from earth and send it away for good with negligible costs.

These are just two economic examples. From a scientific perspective cheap space flight is valuable because it enables a lot of advances, like the next generation of space telescopes, working as interferometers without atmospheric disturbances.

So I think it’s everything but stupid for humanity to expand it’s space operations if this is accompanied by meaningful regulations. The latter of course will require a lot of energy to achieve.

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I totally agree, but funneling taxpayer money to space exploration makes rich people richer faster than, say, using that money to build homes or feed the hungry.

This means useful idiots are always going to support it over any alternatives.

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I mean, he does have like 7^x log(ln) kids…

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Watch as he continues to fail upwards. It’s like no-one remembers Trump.

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If he were helping the extreme left, I assure you, that would be ok for the most people here…

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because he can’t elevates his dick anymore

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Really? Didn’t he impregnate Grimes twice?

In addition to having kids with like 3 other women?

Say what you want about Musk, but there’s no denying he’s having a way easier time getting laid and spreading his genes than most of you.

There’s just something about money that even makes slimeballs like Musk irresistible to the opposite sex.

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Half of his kids were IVF.

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You can remove the douche from the apartheid, but you can’t remove the apartheid from the douche

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Okay but now I need to rewatch sausage party and repeat this.

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Happy to assist!

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this is what the .1% want - a full Corporatocracy where they, not elected leaders of governments, control countries and people.

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Might be time to move to the EU, so when we all become corporate citizens, I can at least be a citizen of Lego

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