• @filoria@lemmy.mlOP
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    -2611 months ago

    A government-funded project, carrying a government-funded payload, launched by a government-funded rocket.

    bUt ItS pRiVaTe

    • athos77
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      1711 months ago

      So by that logic, if the government charters a bus to carry some government scientists and their government-funded research projects to a conference that the government has partially funded, and the bus crashes on the way to the conference, then the government is responsible for the bad brakes on the bus? How does that make sense?

      • Rentlar
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        211 months ago

        The government has given at least one direct or indirect subsidy to OP, so therefore anything OP does wrong can be blamed on the government! Hooray!

        • SanguinePar
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          611 months ago

          In that scenario, the road was fine, it was the brakes that were broken :-)

    • @Candelestine@lemmy.world
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      611 months ago

      Put some in front of each of those for actual accuracy. NASA does have projects it exclusively funds and controls.

      Those are not without failure either, of course, the Challenger disaster being a classic example. Details are important, at any rate.

    • @4am@lemm.ee
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      211 months ago

      More whaling for capital. “Won’t someone think of the shareholders!”

      The part that broke was built by a private company that took taxpayer dollars soo…. Seems like the free market is what failed here