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by mainecoder
665 days ago
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It is not strange at all the inefficiency of the government has compounded to an extent such that even the military can not produce weapons to standards. SpaceX is one of the few shinning beacons of the Pax Americana if they kill SpaceX and continue to support these dying businesses without stringent reforms or refuse to allow their competitors China will overtake us. You can already see this happening where NASA of today just moves money from the government to private companies(but the ones truly doing innovation and delivering are the private companies) the technical capabilities of NASA now exist in the past while the China National Space Administration has been steadily improving their technical capabilities while also supporting a burgeoning private space industry. The financialization of US economy is making it such that those that produce money with the least actual value are being prioritized, while it different in China. The engineering legacy is already gone substantially, we cannnot even produce naval destroyers to spec even after multiple delays and after being overbudget, while China is cranking out better and better ships and using the engineering legacy of ship building to make naval destroyers. The Naval battlefield has changed whereby the previously overpowered aircraft carriers are now a huge liability with a missile costing less that $200k can destroy it (while there was a lot of spending on counter measure like the phalanx) the future is no longer of large ships. |
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