No, we should regain control of our nation from fascists (this does not mean just replace the President), then nationalize SpaceX and Starlink, and make telecoms public utilities.
this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2025
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Starlink should be globalized. A planet only needs one low-altitude orbiting communications network. Better to standardize the technology and platform and let them contribute to one system than to have a dozen identical competing systems crashing into each other and fucking things up for everyone.
There is no such thing as something being "globalized" The UN for instance is a debating club where the majority of the seats represent individual dictators who dominate but do not speak for their countries citizens.
The idea of 50 countries collectively providing 0% of the funds should determine the mission is somewhat laughable. Also no country on earth has a process by which foreign dictators can seize or direct a company run out of their nation.
There's already NASA which gets piss poor funding iirc
No I would not like taxpayer dollars to buy out Elons shit shows.
Hard pass. Thanks no thanks jacobin
You have NASA FFS. Just fund it.
NASA is too beholden to politics... You can't do 7 year builds and missions when the Senate flips every 4 years and has to kill everything the other side did on principle that it has a D or R attached to it. Everything is political.
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No, we already have NASA
Throw Musk in prison for his many documented crimes, but don't support this kind of dictator shit.
Best time would've been when he pulled that stunt in Ukraine, second best time is now
I wouldn't nationalize anything long as the orange could possibly profit off it
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