Did you not read the post Starlink satellites are burning up. This is a terrible deal public money from NASA is funding this guys space junk.
"Access to space". What will that provide for starving people Lol. Yes, doing nothing is the best here should be obvious. We did nothing before it worked quite well people seemed happier.
Imagine if it was fully subsidized. You're halfway there already. Just liquidate Elon's garbage company.
If each rocket launch is 67 million dollars NASA provides funding for over 25 launches a year. That is an incredible amount of waste when those fall down. Waste of time, money effort, etc...
NASA is a waste of money itself, however $2,000,000 accounts for half of the budget of Space X. If each rocket launch is $67,000,000 and they do 50 a year that's about 30 launches on the house.
I'd rather not pay anyone since life was better before Space X existed. You are forgetting Space X used to not exist and these contracts were not vital to our lives.
Feeding the starving is mutually exclusive especially when you can subsidize farmers. Farmers make a terrible wage it wouldn't even be expensive to pay them off for free grain, cattle etc...
NASA is giving money to elon whether it is donated or not. He provides no service worth the cost. 600,000 people have internet versus the entire United States having free grain and hamburgers. For instance, data shows uber paid contractors $15,000,000,000 last year. Assuming food spend is about 10% of your monthly budget Elon would be able to cover the entire food bill of every Uber employee. If you scale that up to his entire company you most likely could pay off the entire industry on a yearly basis.
Abducting children is not okay. Hope your not making fun of posts that talk about preventing child abduction by governments.
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