Astro Hacker News - Boeing-Lockheed rocket fails mid-flight, destroys payload of Amazon satellites

waterTanuki |next [-]

SpaceX has received more than $22B in subsidies from taxpayer money. They were built off of public funding as much as NASA was. At this point, they are not entitled to keep rocket designs and experiment results secret (except where national security is a concern) from other U.S. competitors. Any company that can obtain a security clearance and demonstrate ability to build should be able to receive these designs from the Federal Government. It's extremely inefficient to keep destroying rockets all so one man can keep his circular financing scheme going.

Armchair scientists who come along and say "Look what they did that NASA couldn't do" don't understand A) SpaceX wouldn't exist at all if not for 6 decades of innovations from NASA & JPL and B) NASA ACTUALLY does space exploration unlike SpaceX, and their budget has to support rovers on other planets, launches, the ISS, astronaut training, weather and climate research (which SpaceX and Blue Origin also benefit from).

zulux |next |previous [-]

Sorry to hear this. The more ways to space the better.

alliao |next |previous [-]

very bad news for Taiwan

AnimalMuppet |root |parent [-]

How so?

ivewonyoung |root |parent [-]

Maybe because China is making big strides with space and reusable rockets just like they did with EVs and data centers while the world is just watching using their government powers to block and hamper SpaceX, Nvidia and Tesla etc. which unfortunately seem be the west's best and maybe only chance to stay ahead or catchup.

Conceding the EV race, and now the AI/robot/DC race and space race to China will probably ensure Taiwan will have a very bad time at some point.

ck2 |next |previous [-]

how does Neil deGrasse Tyson put it again?

> "the launch wasn't a failure, it was an experiment rich in data"

gred |root |parent [-]

Ideally you run more than one or two experiments per year, though...

varispeed |previous [-]

Every time I have to wait a long time to get a doctor's appointment or the police won't arrive in time when crime is reported I ponder how it could have been if Amazon paid their taxes.

At least there is some justice.

ecshafer |root |parent |next [-]

> Every time I have to wait a long time to get a doctor's appointment

Privately funded and thus unrelated. Maybe lobby for increasing the number of residency slots, which is the only government backed filter.

> police won't arrive in time when crime is reported

Vote for a different DA, also the police are paid with property taxes, which Amazon does pay, but only if they are local.

twoodfin |root |parent |next [-]

Ironically, if it’s available in your area and you’re willing to pay a relatively trivial sum, Amazon’s One Medical primary care offering will get you a doctor’s visit right quick.

lesuorac |root |parent |next |previous [-]

Who pays for a residency slot?

fastball |root |parent [-]

Patients and their insurance companies, presumably.

cowsandmilk |root |parent |previous [-]

> Privately funded and thus unrelated

Very US-centric response. And even then, US government funding is a determinant of how many doctors are trained.

echelon |root |parent |next [-]

Doctors decide how many residencies there are. They keep it low to maintain their high salaries.

Easy fix - we should let every foreign doctor take a simple test to qualify for US license to practice medicine.

We should be importing doctors by the thousands.

zdragnar |root |parent [-]

It's not just residencies, governments also actively restrict how many hospitals can be built. I'd rather have the government break up the doctor's modern equivalent of a guild and encourage more private practices rather than just shoving more cheap foreign labor into the existing PE firms and continuing to gatekeep young students out of the industry.

ecshafer |root |parent |previous [-]

Medical schools are mostly private. Harvard Med should maybe increase class size to 10000 if they think they should.

ikr678 |root |parent [-]

The bottleneck is the hospital training places (which recieve som govt funding), not in the schools.

tt24 |root |parent |next |previous [-]

This has nothing to do with anything, and Amazon’s payload is certainly paid back to them by Lockheed.

davidguetta |root |parent |next |previous [-]

These are not in my opinion not related.

Public service performances are not necessarily budget-driven

We have that big issue in france where at equal budget (even inflation adjusted) a lot of stuff went downhill

Aarostotle |root |parent |previous [-]

Ah, yes, I too am outraged by medical scarcity caused by...

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... convenient same-day shipping.

harry8 |root |parent [-]

>... convenient same-day shipping

...replacing a significant part of the economy that paid its taxes with amazon who don't leading to budget cuts and so on.

That's the argument. Agree, disagree, don't engage, whatever, but what you've written here is

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...nonsense.

Sometimes people try to keep the forum sensible, according to the house rules, maybe its a losing battle already lost.