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Re:Space Solar Power Demonstrator ends first in-space mission by weregiraffe on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @03:16AM (#39024827)
A person can use Google for 5 minutes to realize that a company does not launch 5000 satellites (surpassing all other launcher companies on Earth combined by mass launched in the process) as part of some kinda US research subsidy.

Of course, if a person is already poisoned by twitter discourse to the point where they substitute their own reality just to keep hating Musk, then all hope is lost...

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Re:Space Solar Power Demonstrator ends first in-space mission by ithkuil on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @03:35AM (#39024956)
Yeah I agree, as a layperson with the ability to google 5 minutes and have my own priors I can reach the same conclusion.

What I'm saying OTOH is that I have no way to know whether you have some more insightful things to say about this since you just called bullshit without any further details. I hoped you had more details

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Re:Space Solar Power Demonstrator ends first in-space mission by forgot-im-old on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @10:14PM (#39037237)
We agree actually. SpaceX is not doing this for some research project, or for a commercial internet service. It's a military project-- see the Wikipedia link.
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Re:Space Solar Power Demonstrator ends first in-space mission by ithkuil on Saturday January 20, 2024 @03:56AM (#39065820)
I'm not agreeing or disagreeing, I'm just making a meta-point about trying to better qualify one's assertions so that a reader can better judge the information content of the statement.
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