[LogicDesigner]

I would think you would be more supportive of Musk considering SpaceX is trying to privatize space travel and offering competition to the entrenched players. He thinks he can reduce the current high costs by building reusable rockets. Their rockets have already successfully landed on their legs. Below are a few of their test launches in action, and here is a video of their one kilometer up and down test that is even more impressive.

[logi_cal869]

I don’t dispute the technology is impressive. But the tech is not his.

Rockets landing on earth is a fanciful idea, but completely impractical, save for draining meager resources away from other valid scientific endeavors. Until a non-chemical method of reaching orbit is attained, we are limited to simple math: What goes up, must come down and takes a given quantity of fuel to lift a given quantity of mass.

Musk started out well enough but then degraded into the typical liberal that sucks at the government teat.

It’s time he (and all the other BS grant-suckers) was cut off and science/research dollars redirected back to a reinvigorated NASA (though I understand that that will never happen with current leadership...rather, lack thereof). Perhaps a new generation of scientific minds at NASA, with the old generation gone, can restore this country back to a respectable pillar of scientific achievement.

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