Bro, SpaceX sells the dishes at a loss. The Verge and other outlets have done teardowns to confirm this. And USAID says all they did was buy dishes.

If by "subsidies' you mean being the lowest bidder in competitive bidding... and therefore actually saving the government money compared to competitors in all SpaceX's contracts, that's a pretty weird definition of 'subsidy'.

Sitting back and letting China take Taiwan without defending them seems like a bad idea, but I admit that predicting what US political leaders might do in response is pretty hard.

Lmao “oh that part doesn’t count because I don’t want it to”. Hundreds of millions of dollars, to say nothing of the billions in other subsidies musk’s companies have gotten. I guess we won’t talk about the part where he lied about that though right?

The US will never go to war with China over taiwan, to suggest anything otherwise is absurd

Sorry, did you miss the part in the last comment where I said this, or did you just want a source:

>They paid for a few dishes, but even on those dishes SpaceX has paid for service for a year now. They are losing money on those, they could have gone to paying customers.

Here's the USAID official spokesperson's statement. Rather then your editorializing from Jeff Bezo's outlet.

>“USAID has purchased Starlink terminals, but has not paid for Starlink service,” the spokesperson said. “Like many mobile network markets, the most important cost factor is not the device itself, but the service, which SpaceX is offering for free for all devices.”

https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/11/22/ukraine-internet-starlink-elon-musk-russia-war/

>Also, comparing China and Russia is laughably out of touch.

Yes, China is obviously a bigger threat. The Ukraine war proves what many had already said, that Russia's capabilities have been greatly exaggerated.

I’m sorry, what was that? What’s this about “adequate compensation”? if you’re going to simp for the world’s biggest fraud, at least do some research.

Also, comparing China and Russia is laughably out of touch.

That's a good plan, if we melt through the ice and lower a camera into the water, it'll just get eaten.

We need this, a mission to Europa and a Cassini style mission for both Ice Giants.

You ninny, they obviously meant Nine Hamsters.

If they can send New Hampshire to Pluto, is there anything they can’t do?

Then do it, what are we waiting to fund this mission.

NASA is so damn good my first reaction was:

“They can do that. They sent NH to Pluto and Cassini to Saturn.”

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>Nobody paid SpaceX anything to develop Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, or Starship.

NASA did help fund the development of Falcon-9 through the COTS program and by buying launches before it was ready to fly. NASA is also paying them $3 billion to develop and launch the Starship HLS.

Yeah, even in space movies and shows with lauded "realism" there is still sound, it's just heavily muted. I like it, but it's still not actually realistic. I like the implication that it's what it would sound like if the camera were encased in a module with air, or if the microphone(s) were mounted in the ship(s) and that's what it would sound like, but it's still not what it would sound like.

Yeah before Artemis they tried to force NASA to use it to launch stuff like Europa Clipper which would have been an astounding waste of money when Falcon Heavy can do it...

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However space is not a true vacuum, so there is a possibility of sound transference but that chance is basically zero.

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If that's the only thing you can think of I can only guess you aren't paying attention, given funds vanishing on those kinds of scales has been a thing for far longer than one new congresswoman has been doing the rent-free thing in peoples' heads. Unless you're saying she made those claims while Bush was in office too, I guess.

I blame the movies, but it would be boring to have a space fight scene with no sound.

It depends on how empty you mean by empty. In a pure vacuum there’s no sound. Some black holes and star systems have enough gases around them that what might visibly look “empty” between the star and surrounding planets isn’t really empty. There, sound travels out in massive waves. Luckily our solar system lacks enough matter to transmit sound from our sun to our planet because it would be really frickin loud all the time if it did. Also, gravitational waves expand and compress space (and the matter within it) not too dissimilar from how sound travels through matter, but unlike audible sound waves, gravitational waves don’t require a physical medium. But this is how we can hear black holes. Also, they travel at the speed of light if I remember correctly.

The wage of the average high school teacher has minimally increased since then and has fallen extreme magnitudes below adjustment rates for inflation and cost of living increases.

Are you saying 38k a year is sufficient to draw the necessary talent under the current position requirements?

I think relating that to DoE budget increases is not only disingenuous but a flat out diversion of the actual problem.

The only salary on the DoE that have seen proper increases relative to economic scaling is those in administrative positions.

We need better paid teachers not more admin pay.

The DoE’s budget, and national education spending, has been gradually increasing since 1970, yet test scores have remained the same. Budget cuts are not the issue.

Without a material to travel through it can't.

So in a true vacuum sound can't move from its point of origin.

"In space no one can hear you scream" is fairly accurate statement

I've had 3 good science teachers in my educational years, and 10000000x this!

A good science teacher is really entertaining and fun. A dry teacher sucks.