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Re:NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% bud... by cess11 on Friday February 21, 2025 @05:04PM (#43133630)
If he is "obsessed" with that, why is he so disinterested in making progress towards it?
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Re:NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% bud... by rockemsockem on Sunday February 23, 2025 @09:31PM (#43155275)
Can you elaborate on that? What do you think SpaceX is and what do you think Starship is? Legitimately curious to hear your reply
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Re:NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% bud... by cess11 on Monday February 24, 2025 @03:13AM (#43156960)
A way for him to suckle the udder of the tax payer and claim the glory of other people's labour and ability.

He has no interest in being able to control himself for years at a time, nor is he interested in solving the difficult problems of such a long deep space endeavour. If he were, then he'd be cooperative and disciplined, and try to make progress in this area.

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Re:NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% bud... by rockemsockem on Monday February 24, 2025 @11:58AM (#43161855)
So you're saying that SpaceX is all a government handout scheme, but that it also has produced glory?

Furthermore you're saying that since SpaceX isn't working on problems of habitation and deep space survival that he's not serious about Mars?

Is that right?

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