I want SpaceX to be a private enterprise. I just want to get ahold of Elon's special shares so the company can be liable to shareholders instead of a nutty Nazi

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Its infuriating listening to people who have no interest in the space sector beyond it's ability to generate content talk about it as if they're subject matter experts.

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sure, and if that's what brandon had said I probably would broadly agree with it.......but he didn't

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the distinction is that these private companies are contractors *for NASA* rather than NASA just buying services from a private company (never mind how dependent these companies are on federal funding to sustain themselves) it's like if the Air Force bought strategic bombers and ICBMs as a service

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One of my favorite parts of Apollo 13 is the two contractors arguing who was responsible for oversight of safety of a particular part and whether or not it was prior to integration.

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