Admiral Patrick

I’m surprisingly level-headed for being a walking knot of anxiety.

Ask me anything.

I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks

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  • I’ve got a love-hate relationship with private space companies.

    Love:

    • More and cheaper access to space is ultimately a good thing (gotta get to the Star Trek future somehow)
    • What SpaceX has done with reusable boosters is game changing. I hate Musk, but I try to not think about him when I think of SpaceX

    Hate:

    • It’s more “socializing the cost, privatizing the profits” where much of their funding came or continues to come from government grants/contracts. It’s almost the same model as the pharmaceutical industry.
    • It’s a billionaire’s game, and we’re all being exploited to fund it (beyond tax dollars at least partially funding them).

    As far as NASA facilities getting their funding: Remember that SLS exists and is made entirely out of pork. So at least those facilities will continue to get funding because they’re essentially jobs programs for a handful of states.