NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission

Re:NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission by eru on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @01:23AM (#45665163)

Debt just shifts resources around in the present, but can't magic new resources into existence.

(Unless you borrow from foreigners, which taps resources from outside the country that later have to be paid back. But I'm not sure the Apollo programme was financed with foreign loans?)

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Re:NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission by zdragnar on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @09:08AM (#45668534)

Interest and repayment of the debt happens in the future. Though the government does sell bonds to individuals and organizations, much of the financing comes from the federal reserve.

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Re:NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission by eru on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @06:49PM (#45676145)

The federal reserve only 'prints money'. It doesn't create any real resources.

If one part of society sells bonds to another part of society, no real resources from the future have traveled back in time.

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