I just hope they both come out of this knowing that nobody gives a shit about either one of them
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Aaaaaand...this is why you don't outsource this kind of shit to private interests. At any point, they can just pick up their ball and go home. Now all the money they invested in SpaceX just gets flushed down the drain. The government winds up with nothing to show for it.
The federal government can just national security/eminent domain take that shit.
Now that would be HILARIOUS
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Say goodbye to human spaceflight for an entire generation. We made a huge mistake hitching everything onto this fucker's stuff.
I've been waiting for us to leave LEO since I was a kid in the 80s and it now looks like I might be dying without ever having witnessed even a moon landing. I envy my parents.
Unless China or India or Russia pull something off. They're all we have after this.
Ironic that the man convinced he was going to take humanity to Mars just set back humanity's interplanetary expansion by a generation.
Maybe what we've lost with this mistake will balance out by teaching us that autocrats/oligarchs don't serve us but it's hard to imagine it at this point.
China is killing it honestly. My money is actually on them for next boots on the moon.
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Can't the admin simply seize SpaceX, if it is that important to "national security"? If elon complains, deport him and nationalize his stuff on the grounds that he got his citizenship under illegal pretenses (illegal immigrant).
They certainly could. I don’t think it’s a terrible idea either - Elon is not stable enough to handle the decision making for national security tech.
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I think you mean for the west. China has its own rockets and space station and I imagine they aren't stopping just cause SpaceX decided to shoot itself in the foot.
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It's bed time in the UK, can someone keep me updated with the shitshow whilst I sleep?
I'm glad there's places like Lemmy and even some news sources that compile the fallout together to save me digging through all of the content for its main points. I was thinking earlier today at work that I sure hope that helpful Lemmy users will compile and summarize the big ones for me.
Need Musk to start talking about how he rigged the voting machines…
He would never put himself in additional danger to help anybody.
Could just blame Trump. Say he was threatened with helping him or his contracts and family would be killed. I would 100% believe it. Wouldn't even need receipts.
Don't put anything past this admin.
Right, but then they might actually kill him. I don't see where the confusion is about him not putting his neck on the line.
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Gonna need a megathread for this fallout. They are at each other.
-Calls for Impeachment
-Decommissioning contracts
-Naming in Epstein files
-ICE rounding up musk
You forgot Musk leaking all the snooped data he's collected from all the White House staff traversing his Starlink dish on the White House roof. Anyone know what the over/under for number of christian conservative senior White House officials found actively using Grindr?
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That last point would be beautiful
Can't retire if you never worked.
The dragon capsule worked though? You may be thinking of starliner, which is Boeing.
I'm thinking of Starship.
So Elon's cancelling the thing that works, but not the giant firecracker?
Indeed. And Shotwell will likely remind Elon they can’t do that and stay solvent. It wouldn’t be the first time she’s uncancelled something he’s decided to throw out.
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It's the "You can't fire me! I quit!" response to Trump threatening his NASA contracts.
Seems more like the cutting off his nose to spite his face.
To be fair, that will teach his dumb stupid face a lesson it deserves.
Seems more like the cutting off his nose to spite outer space.
presumably well thought out business decisions arent made spontaneously out of rage from a twitter fight.
While on ketamine.
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