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[–] [email protected] 20 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

Starlink should not just be nationalized but internationalized.
It is internet for everyone on earth, not everyone in the USA.

Every larger nation deploying their own constellation would be a pointless waste of resources, and every smaller nation having to find reliable partner-nations to tap into for that internet access would inevitably lead to people ending up without access due to political games.

Low orbit satellite constellations are the perfect candidate for sharing, they would literally sit unused over most of their orbits otherwise.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 18 hours ago (8 children)

Lets reach a compromise. Impeach Trump (successfully) and then take away SpaceX from Elon. That way things would be fair.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 17 hours ago

Trump has been impeached successfully. Twice. What I assume you mean is that he hasn't been removed from office. That could be the consequence of an impeachment, but not necessarily.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Step one Musk needs to be arrested and sent to El Salvador.

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[–] [email protected] 123 points 22 hours ago (13 children)

You could always just fund the space agency you already have, instead of funneling money to a foreign billionaire.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 21 hours ago (47 children)

No this the one time I’m with the commies. Nationalize that shit. Like you said it’s all taxpayer money anyway. A little bit of Wall Street speculation, but who gives a fuck about those people

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

We? No. USA can if it wants that shit.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

American exceptionalism is so fucking annoying. Their country is failing to a point hopefully this first person shit rightfully corrects to third person.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

American exceptionalism definitely sucks, but this is not an example of American exceptionalism. The source is an article from an American magazine, published for an American audience.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 19 hours ago (7 children)

Has US nationalized anything this millenia? I really don't see that ever happening

[–] [email protected] 35 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Tax burdens for billionaires

[–] [email protected] 19 points 18 hours ago

Also losses. Gotta get that sweet, sweet too-big-to-fail bailout money.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Airport security was nationalized as the TSA. Aside from that no.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Just having such wealth and thus power in hands of singular humans is risk to all of humanity. With musk you are but big enough drug fueled temper tantrum away from pretty important infrastructure coming crashing down.

[–] [email protected] 273 points 1 day ago (29 children)

Yeah I mean the tax payers have literally already paid for all of both SpaceX and Starlink. The public paid for it, the public should own it.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

No thanks, demolish Leon Hitler's space program and bury it. NASA should be the US leader for space missions and not a South African neo-Nazi sack of shit.

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