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Re:SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Project at the Boca Chica Lau... by gosub100 on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @05:15PM (#38018498)
if he didn't capitulate on Ukraine then Russia would knock his satellites out of orbit, possibly even causing Kessler syndrome. Then you'd be blaming him for that, and "why didn't he just make one sacrifice to keep the internet on for millions of people, but no his corporate greed got to him and now space is unusable because Putin put his foot down"
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Re:SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Project at the Boca Chica Lau... by avmich on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @05:55PM (#38018889)
I agree that people can be very irrational :) . But yet your leading phrase really deserves justification, smelling conspiracy theory from a mile.
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Re:SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Project at the Boca Chica Lau... by gosub100 on Thursday October 26, 2023 @08:47AM (#38024796)
to me it's clear, if a private business sells a technology service that is being used in a war, the adversary is going to see that action as hostile and use powers within their means to neutralize the threat. I'm not sure you're using the word "conspiracy theory" correctly.
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Re:SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Project at the Boca Chica Lau... by _kbh_ on Friday October 27, 2023 @02:46AM (#38035437)
> to me it's clear, if a private business sells a technology service that is being used in a war, the adversary is going to see that action as hostile and use powers within their means to neutralize the threat. I'm not sure you're using the word "conspiracy theory" correctly.

But Ukraine is literally using services from a SAR satellite right now, which is run by a private business.

https://www.universetoday.com/157208/ukraine-crowdfunded-a-1...

And yet theres 0 noise or even evidence anyones even thinking of blowing it out of the sky.

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Re:SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Project at the Boca Chica Lau... by avmich on Friday October 27, 2023 @12:46PM (#38040798)
The conspiracy theory part is about this -

> if he didn't capitulate on Ukraine then Russia would knock his satellites out of orbit

Kinda hard to comment on flagged origin.

Do you see why it's a conspiracy theory?

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Re:SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Project at the Boca Chica Lau... by giantrobot on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @07:29PM (#38019691)
> if he didn't capitulate on Ukraine then Russia would knock his satellites out of orbit

This is a farcical statement.

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