X : What do think of SpaceX
Me : It's fine. They are industrializing all the hard work that NASA did.
X : The private sector works better though!
Me : Not at all. As someone said, NASA is like the NHS of Space. Great public institutions that people should be proud of.
Me : It's fine. They are industrializing all the hard work that NASA did.
X : The private sector works better though!
Me : Not at all. As someone said, NASA is like the NHS of Space. Great public institutions that people should be proud of.
... if you look at both NASA and the NHS, I'll suspect you'll find that they only ever truly fail when people try to add a bit of fake market economics / management consultancy thinking to them. Let us privatise space is about as daft as privatising healthcare.
X : You don't like management consultants?
Me : Who does? What kid dreams of growing up to spend their life talking gibberish, snakeoil and powerpoint? It's nothing that can't be solved ... NASA could create a 'B' Ark or you could learn to map. Every map is one less consultant.
Me : Who does? What kid dreams of growing up to spend their life talking gibberish, snakeoil and powerpoint? It's nothing that can't be solved ... NASA could create a 'B' Ark or you could learn to map. Every map is one less consultant.
