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Nop Nope. NASA has a contract with a private company and is paying for product and services provided by that company. It might surprise you that commercial government suppliers expect to get paid for what they supply. There are clawback provisions in the contract in the event SpaceX...

I hate to point out the obvious, but the closest analog is being poor in the US with the wonderful medical insurance system designed in the 1800s to allow easy denial of medical services to non-whites. Medical assistance in most developed countries requires visiting a hospital. US is the...

Skydiving for example? Mountain climbing maybe? (Check the death statistics for Everest where there is a long line of climbers at the mountain and many more hoping to get a spot in that line) Crab fishing in the Bering Strait? (Should be banned if reducing deaths is a priority) High speed car...

Years ago registration was opened for a one way trip to a Mars colony. They got sufficient response to man their colony, but the project just faded away and is now just another failed dream. With the billions of people on Earth staffing a Mars settlement with even a few thousand volunteer...

You needn't be so skeptical. You are living the 1960s SF fantasy of life on Earth🐶

The plan for the stranded pair is to hope there isn't a need for a lifeboat. Theirs was sent back to test whether or not they could safely use it.

So you're saying it is manned and operated by a representative mix of Americans? All the social problems you mention have been present in the USA from 1776 onwards and in human society in general for longer than recorded history. Being on Mars will not cause the people who live and work there...

What government money is he receiving other than payment for services rendered? That income I would assume he hopes lasts at least until the grandkids retire and turn the companies over to their kids.

The solution to parts failure is called spares inventory redundancy. The solution to the low production of the prototype is to build a sufficiently large plant for the needed amount and a separate redundant plant that share the load until one breaks down, then the other one works near full...

SLS rescue missions require a year or two to finish the rocket for the next launch, a few months of launch preparation and only then does it take a few days. SpaceX has changed that, but it still hasn't sunk in with our political leaders. All they see is a loss of vote buying resources. This...

The US isn't sinking a penny into Mars beyond the cost of the various science probes & landers (on which they are saving billions by hiring SpaceX launch services) Of course you could consider SpaceX contracts to be USG spending on Mars as the profits on these commercial contracts are part of...

Won't ever happen. He's in the history books now due to SpaceX😂

Nope NASA will continue to focus on the Moon and Musk will continue to focus on Mars. He will allow his paid managers to focus on the details of paying for the Mars work by selling services to anyone that needs them and can get US government approval to pay SpaceX to do the work. Actually...

He has no plans to. He DOES plan to use the profits from the companies he owns. He does not want government subsidies that come with Congressional overseers to advise him on "How to do it right". He has the history of the US space program between the last Apollo and the first SpaceX...

The government doesn't and never has subsidized the Mars dream. The government pays a for profit space launch and services company (SpaceX) for completion of work done. The profits from the sale of services to others (Musk's share of Starlink's profits included) is what is subsidising the Mars...

Musk has never considered his SpaceX goals a secret. A human settlement on Mars. Working with NASA to launch NASA astronauts, equipment, and satellites help pay for R&D on the Mars project. Elon's goals have not changed. Yes he is developing parts of the "Return to the Moon" NASA initiative...

Mr. Trump promised it would never happen and Mr. Trump is always looking out for us little guys (cue tales of Kindle & "1984")🤔

In public they would join the MAGA in shouting accolades. Privately they would be researching alternative providers and VPNs capable of bypassing the block😂😂😂

Web server operators are in the information business The connection that allows them to be reached is a telecommunication service Unfortunately the courts rule however they wish and prefer not to be confused by inconvenient facts unless they are properly packaged in legalese that the other...

TikTok USA is required to comply with US law. The Chinese company who controls TikTok USA can direct their subsidiary to violate US law. For a well documented example of this behaviour, refer to the violation of GDPR by Microsoft Ireland when Microsoft USA directed them to illegally share...