People Had to Be Convinced of the Usefulness of Electricity

Re:People Had to Be Convinced of the Usefulness of Electricity by bumby on Sunday March 19, 2023 @05:06PM (#35223635)

It’s also important to recognize companies like SpaceX benefit heavily from socialized infrastructure. For example, they lease a pad at Kennedy Space Center and use DoD infrastructure at Vandenberg.

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Re:People Had to Be Convinced of the Usefulness of Electricity by ghaff on Sunday March 19, 2023 @05:18PM (#35223751)

While there's perhaps some excessive idolatry of SpaceX and shade on ULA and NASA initiatives, I'm not sure that subsidies--somewhat overt or otherwise--are necessarily a bad thing. Certainly DARPA has a long history.

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Re:People Had to Be Convinced of the Usefulness of Electricity by bumby on Sunday March 19, 2023 @07:10PM (#35224763)

I tend to agree. I think the hybrid system has a lot of benefits, but unfortunately many of these discussions seems to devolve into framing the issue as a false dichotomy.

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