Yeah for sure, almost all of the US’ most impressive accomplishments were state funded. Privatize the profits, socialize the costs.

This might be a hot take here, but for all of Elon’s overhyped flops like the Hyperloop and car tunnels, the Falcon 9 does have the lowest launch cost per kg out of any rocket and is the only family of orbital rockets with a demonstrated reusable propulsive landing system. That’s not to say they’ll have the lead forever since there’s a fundamental limitation of private enterprise, but currently they’re ahead in several important ways.

The green represents freedom and the orange represents liberty

Brobdingnagian if veritable