German Scientist =/= Nazi. But I'm sure there were a few.

Probably a few before WW2 as well. The Nazis had thousands of American sympathizers before the war.

So you think I can talk Putin out of this whole Ukraine nuke threat thing if I learn Russian?

Counter counterpoint: Bezos has money and got only silly toys at the edge of space. Branson has money and got nowhere too. NASA has money - billions in tax dollars - yet they can't build anything without spreading the work across 50 states and 100 different contractors. Until they changed their contracting method to contract types that Space X could bid on and win, which was smart on their part.

Sure, having a bunch of money is important - getting into the space business requires a lot of startup capital. But even with money, most ventures fail, yet Musk succeeded. I just think it's strange the lengths that 2022 redditors are willing to go to deny Musk any credit at all for Tesla, Space X, Starlink, etc. But regardless of credit, Space X is revolutionizing access to space, and that's a great thing.

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I think it's an amazing idea.

Imagine the first real accounting for military spending in history. Seems like a really smart fking idea, tbh.

Man you're a prime example. It makes your country better at defending itself and it's values, with less collateral damage, creating less terrorists. Idk why it's not obvious that most of the damage is ignorance and fear compounded into rage.

I'm not sure if you're aware, but the current education budget is like 75 billion and the current military budget is like 750 billion.

You just wanna equalize those? just... 2023 education budget 400 billion, 2023 military budget 400 billion?

you think that's a good idea?

So how does making your own citizens smarter reduce potential outside threats?

You gotta start somewhere, and the extreme lack of proper education makes having this powerful military an existential crisis for humanity.

Counterpoint: musk has always been like this… but that’s not why he has been successful.

Money. That’s it. He has money. So he launched a pet project… and hired committed, intelligent people to work there. But listen to accounts of his “management style” — at SpaceX, they had to devote resources to managing him and distracting him from undermining their work.

Billionaires are more predatory, more selfish, and better funded than other people. Not smarter, more skilled, or somehow better people.

>South Korea's unannounced rocket launch causes UFO scare

"People getting stupider every day."

That should be the headline.

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Great people are very infrequently good people. If you look at any major business leader from the past century that revolutionised their area such as Henry Ford for cars, the Robber barons for oil etc, or Howard Hughes in later life for aircraft they all changed the world we lived for the better but you probably wouldn't invite them round for dinner or agree with most of their views but stuff seemed to turn out all right.

>Good info made impossible to read

Cause there is only this one website for "good info".

lol ok and in the mean time we just tell everyone to leave us alone because we're going through something right now?

You can't just go "oop halved the defense budget, hope that doesn't cause any national security problems over the next be 20 years."

> You might get a glimpse of them just before you both pass the event horizon

At the very least, you'd see them (well, a very distorted image of them) at 90 degrees left and right as you cross the photon sphere.

I mean NASA was filled with literal Nazis after WWII so...

He’s the exact same person he’s always been , not sure what exactly you think has been different in regards to how he runs his companies. Spacex had 61 launches this year and an incredibly successful/ productive year. Try not to be a doomer.

Why not? Over time a good education reduces the need for military.

I mean, I like the chutzpah, but we don't need F-35s in classrooms. we need to increase school funding and decrease military spending, but not equalize them XD

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Same here. At least I got to see the Moon and Jupiter close together

I’m deeply concerned about billionaires running anything at all that affects us, the earth, or the future.

They don’t even want peace for themselves. I don’t understand why they don’t go live their luxurious lives on an island somewhere and be happy. If they donated the majority of their wealth to help people or the planet, they would be heroes in history and STILL couldn’t spend all the money they have left in their lifetime or their children’s. What do they want?

It’s honestly so creepy.

As opposed to the people leading us politically, socially, economically, morally, philosophically?

I'm not American and my comment is not whataboutism, rather I think your post is indicative of a certain political and social spectrum that lacks a balanced perspective; you clearly have a viewpoint that is very much at odds with Elon and as such you feel threatened by what you characterize as a "a Facebook right-wing shitposter is now at the head of one of the most significant private space corporations of this generation?" yet you seem to forget that that private space corporation is owned by HIM as a private institution, it's not as if someone elected him to be in charge of, say, NASA or ESA and is therefore a public servant you can set expectation on job delivery.

You dislike him, his viewpoints and goals? Fine, make your own private space corporation or support another company who shares your point of view. Easy.

not unless we achieve FTL travel.
though under current models of acheiving that via the warping of space, sticking a spacetime bubble into a spacetime singularity may cause "issues"