....we had this... discussion here
Thanks to President Obama for letting the millionaires try to beat China to colonize Mars:
I spoke too soon: the gov't is trying to shut them down, using the usual environmentalist nonsense.
From Behind the black:'
This revelation from FAA officials is most interestingly timed, coming on the same day as this garbage article about the terrible environmental damages some activists imagine SpaceX’s launch facility might someday cause. .....
Nor was this the only such attack article in the past two days. Here is just a sampling:
- Boston Review: Lost in Space
- The Independent: The global super-rich are taking joyrides in space as our precious planet burns
- Jacobin: Leave the Billionaires in Space
While the last two op-eds above are partly in response to Richard Branson’s suborbital flight on July 11th, their timing and linkage to the FAA’s revelation yesterday is no accident. Forces in and out of government that are strongly hostile to private enterprise and its ability to get things done are working together hard to squelch the new renaissance in commercial space, precisely because it shows how successful capitalism and freedom are compared to the bloated, wasteful, inefficient government-run space programs that we have been saddled with for decades and have gotten us nowhere during that time.
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