Elon Musk thinks he is NASA. I think with strategic control of space he intends to widen both his influence with governments and his economic domination of that realm. One of his rockets exploded across our night sky in Idaho lighting up horizon to horizon in flaming brilliance.
Elon Musk thinks he is NASA. I think with strategic control of space he intends to widen both his influence with governments and his economic domination of that realm. One of his rockets exploded across our night sky in Idaho lighting up horizon to horizon in flaming brilliance.
Ah, "space invaders," indeed. Musk does seem to have ambitions toward corporate, if not personal, domination of space development. And if we let our government privatize space, I pity those poor souls who find themselves working in orbital facilities with no public oversight as to living and working condition. To see two sf treatments on the subject by two rabidly libertarian authors, but with very different outcomes, see "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by R.A. Heinlein, versus "The Mandel Files" by Peter F. Hamilton. (The latter is actually a trilogy, but all very good.) In both visions, the corporations who control the launch and extraterrestrial facilities become de facto totalitarian governments within their environments.
Oh, sorta like in Deadhorse Alaska during Arctic winter under the thumb of BP and the other corporate baggage supporting them. We felt like brave explorers suffering the indignities of a raging planet until we didn’t.
Elon Musk thinks he is NASA. I think with strategic control of space he intends to widen both his influence with governments and his economic domination of that realm. One of his rockets exploded across our night sky in Idaho lighting up horizon to horizon in flaming brilliance.
Ah, "space invaders," indeed. Musk does seem to have ambitions toward corporate, if not personal, domination of space development. And if we let our government privatize space, I pity those poor souls who find themselves working in orbital facilities with no public oversight as to living and working condition. To see two sf treatments on the subject by two rabidly libertarian authors, but with very different outcomes, see "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by R.A. Heinlein, versus "The Mandel Files" by Peter F. Hamilton. (The latter is actually a trilogy, but all very good.) In both visions, the corporations who control the launch and extraterrestrial facilities become de facto totalitarian governments within their environments.
Oh, sorta like in Deadhorse Alaska during Arctic winter under the thumb of BP and the other corporate baggage supporting them. We felt like brave explorers suffering the indignities of a raging planet until we didn’t.