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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by kube-system on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @05:47PM (#27912627)
> Lumping them all together feels like we're giving out participation trophies.

Like this?: https://kstp.com/kstpImages/repository/2021-07/richard-brans...

I honestly don't think it's something bad to praise when only a handful of organizations have ever done it. [0] Thousands of people have climbed Everest, but it is still a commendable achievement.

> Blue Origin has been running for 20 years and the best we have from them is flights that were accomplished in the Cold War?

Plenty of other nation-states have been working on spaceflight longer than that and accomplished less.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_spaceflights#Sum...

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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by peteretep on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @07:02PM (#27913252)
> nation-states

You mean "countries", right, or are you trying to make some point about nationalism?

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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by kube-system on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @11:06PM (#27914873)
Bad word choice on my part. I just meant government-sponsored space programs, in contrast to private attempts.
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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by YuriNiyazov on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @07:50PM (#27913626)
No, he means “governments.”
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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by OJFord on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @08:04PM (#27913725)
I can't think of any country that would try to run such (decades long) projects under the remit of a few years' government.

They would report to but be independent of government ministers, and likely span multiple governments.

'State' is what was meant. (Country, nation, fine; bit less accurate perhaps? But I wouldn't have batted an eyelid.)

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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by IfOnlyYouKnew on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @08:42PM (#27914008)
No, "nation-state" is trying to make about about someone's smartitude. It's like "thread actor" in that regard, i. e. its a big word that important people use in their CNN interviews. The racing strip of sentences, basically.
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