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Re:The Face Behind Bitcoin? by smsm42 on Thursday March 06, 2014 @02:03PM (#7355831)
ITYM "no government-sponsored space program".
Re:The Face Behind Bitcoin? by cgore on Thursday March 06, 2014 @02:19PM (#7355929)
Right. The whole SpaceX/Armadillo Aerospace/etc. situation that is developing now is almost definitionally Libertarian.
Re:The Face Behind Bitcoin? by baddox on Thursday March 06, 2014 @02:24PM (#7355962)
Except that, as far as I know, their main source of revenue is government contracts.
Re:The Face Behind Bitcoin? by mpyne on Thursday March 06, 2014 @04:19PM (#7356676)
And Elon Musk just testified to Congress to propose having SpaceX put military satellites in orbit at much lower cost (and with more American-built parts...) than Boeing/Lockheed Martin's "United Space Alliance".
Re:The Face Behind Bitcoin? by smsm42 on Thursday March 06, 2014 @06:34PM (#7357318)
I'm just noting nothing in libertarianism opposes space exploration per se, unlike National Endowment for Arts which is a direct antithesis to libertarianism.
Re:The Face Behind Bitcoin? by boyaka on Friday March 07, 2014 @05:42PM (#7363219)
definitively* just tryin to help bra