A bit off topic. But does anyone else find it almost impossible to be excited about SpaceX now that the owner is uhhh a Nazi?
I used to love SpaceX and followed it closely since very early on. Now? I wish everyone would quit and the company would collapse.
Yeah, it is a tad off-putting.
I find that I can still be excited about the progress SpaceX is making, even if the CEO is going off the rails. I’m glad that Gwynne Shotwell seems to be pretty level-headed.
Glad I’m not the only one. Star Link in particular is starting to make me very uncomfortable 😕
SpaceX ironically was one of the outlets I had to avoid the doom of politics, now it’s just all blending together and I’m running out of places to find any hope.
SpaceX ironically was one of the outlets I had to avoid the doom of politics
Do you think this community would benefit from a “no-politics” rule, or are political topics unavoidable at this point?
I don’t think you can exclude where politics intersects with SpaceX. I can imagine, for example, Trump ordering the FCC to shortcut its process and give SpaceX whatever spectrum it wants and I think it would be unfair to exclude politics from the discussion of that
@threelonmusketeers @BedSharkPal its unavoidable, with a ceo, practical being the effective president and being a nazi/fascist, yeah we are way beyond ‘no-politics’
@threelonmusketeers @BedSharkPal People have been denigrating the good work of the SpaceX engineers for a long time, because of EMs words and deeds. Until they and the senior managers speak to him and dissociate the company from his reckless behaviour, the brand is toxic.
Yeah, now that we know Starlink is led by a nazi, it changes from “a good idea to fund the Starship program” to “a means of controlling people, killing the net neutrality, and giving even more spying capabilities to the US military”. The nail in the coffin for me was when I learned that a senior SpaceX employee (who joined in 2003) was actively taking part in the DOGE thing. Looks like SpaceX might be rotten at its core too, and this is very very sad to learn.
If you have it, you have already agreed that Musk is king of Mars
Most of these telecommunication components donated to the Trump campaign because he was going to cut their taxes and roll back regulations allowing them to drastically increase profits.
I wonder how they’re feeling now that they know they’ll lose every case against Musk?
They’ll likely lose parts of their spectrums to Starlink, and won’t be able to expand into new ones as they open up because those will also be awarded to Starlink.
They’re going to be losing money and markets to Musk, and they made it happen. They signed their own death certificates.Does anyone know of a good overview of the electromagnetic spectrum? I come across terms like C-band and Ku-band, but I don’t have a good sense of where they fall relative to other frequencies.
geez. i wonder how that’ll turn out. who is awarded the spectrum, and who profits from the auctions.
Ever notice that every cash grab that’s funneled from the US government into corporations is always 80 billion dollars? Where is the line for this because it happens a lot.
