I mean, we didn’t nationalize Lockheed-Martin or Boeing or Northrop-Grumman or Raytheon or General Dynamics. I think we can survive without nationalizing the company as we’ve done throughout our defense history.
Those companies had boards of directors and people at the top who were known to be reliable partners. SpaceX has an idiotic juvenile at the helm. The situations are barely even comparable.
Those companies had boards of directors and people at the top who were known to be reliable partners. SpaceX has an idiotic juvenile at the helm. The situations are barely even comparable.
Not a student of history I take it? I give you Howard Hughes.
SpaceX and Tesla now have effective senior management that insulate their divisions from Musk. His impact there is increasingly minimal, if at all present.
Where Musk is allowed to be Musk is Twitter, an emblem of his wonderful management style.
None of those companies had the ability to stop their equipment in the field from working if they decided one day they’d rather support our enemies. And they didn’t have a history of being influenced by our enemies.
The article makes it clear that Musk has already gotten Ukrainian soldiers killed with his shenanigans. We should not allow him the chance to do it again.
Nationalizing SpaceX would turn it into nowadays NASA’s system which is risk zero and the expense of pushing the envelope and fast changes. SpaceX doesn’t mind blowing up 10 rockets while nasa will spend years to design one and launch it once.
It doesn’t behoove us to have one man be capable of derailing entire segments of our national policy at his whim, especially when that man was never elected to anything.
Their way of working. It is like a software shop, for example the “fail fast” principle.
This seems disruptive in the world of engineering, and it has caused many people wonder. But it is not the best way if you suddenly have living people sitting in the rockets.
If SpaceX is that critical to national defense & foreign policy, it should be nationalized.
I mean, we didn’t nationalize Lockheed-Martin or Boeing or Northrop-Grumman or Raytheon or General Dynamics. I think we can survive without nationalizing the company as we’ve done throughout our defense history.
Those companies had boards of directors and people at the top who were known to be reliable partners. SpaceX has an idiotic juvenile at the helm. The situations are barely even comparable.
Not a student of history I take it? I give you Howard Hughes.
SpaceX and Tesla now have effective senior management that insulate their divisions from Musk. His impact there is increasingly minimal, if at all present.
Where Musk is allowed to be Musk is Twitter, an emblem of his wonderful management style.
None of those companies had the ability to stop their equipment in the field from working if they decided one day they’d rather support our enemies. And they didn’t have a history of being influenced by our enemies.
The article makes it clear that Musk has already gotten Ukrainian soldiers killed with his shenanigans. We should not allow him the chance to do it again.
Its unclear that we are surviving them, or at least not paying them blood money too.
Nationalizing SpaceX would turn it into nowadays NASA’s system which is risk zero and the expense of pushing the envelope and fast changes. SpaceX doesn’t mind blowing up 10 rockets while nasa will spend years to design one and launch it once.
It doesn’t behoove us to have one man be capable of derailing entire segments of our national policy at his whim, especially when that man was never elected to anything.
It’s not like they’d HAVE to continue with the same policy.
B’sides, at least NASA doesn’t blow up a launch pad within a nature preserve just to stay on schedule…
SpaceX doesn’t mind blowing up living people, too.
What makes you say that?
I mean, Elon, sure, but did the company overall do something I missed…?
Their way of working. It is like a software shop, for example the “fail fast” principle.
This seems disruptive in the world of engineering, and it has caused many people wonder. But it is not the best way if you suddenly have living people sitting in the rockets.