Posted on 08/28/2021 8:24:21 AM PDT by fireman15
Elon Musk has criticized fellow centibillionaire and space cowboy Jeff Bezos for filing lawsuits against the former’s aerospace company SpaceX.
Earlier this month, Bezos’ space firm Blue Origin sued NASA after it lost a critical government contract to put astronauts on the Moon to SpaceX. This has had the effect of delaying SpaceX’s own work on the project. And now, this week, Amazon has urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to dismiss newly-submitted plans by SpaceX to launch another cluster of satellites to power its satellite internet service Starlink.
Replying to a story about the latter complaint, Musk tweeted: “Turns out Besos [sic] retired in order to pursue a full-time job filing lawsuits against SpaceX …”
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This reminds me of Nicola Tesla vs Thomas Edison. Testla was a an inspired genuis. Edison was more a grind it out hack.
“with the current failure rate there is some risk involved with the shear amount of space debris finding its way into low orbit and traveling at thousands of miles an hour and creating a very risky space two or three hundred mile above the earth that could impede future projects and make them risky for decades to come.”
The space junk problem is a real threat to future space exploration. I hope we have some great minds thinking of ways to bring it back to Earth (huge magnets of some sort? I don’t know. I’m not a scientist/physicist), or blast it out to space farther.
But I hope we have our best and brightest working on it. I’m sure Trump came across the issue while formulating the Space Force; perhaps that is one of its mandates.
Did Biden cancel the Space Force?
Funny how our best modern presidents are thinking ahead, in space. Reagan had the missile defense program, condescendingly referred to as “Star Wars,” and Trump had the Space Force. You know he was right; China wants to be there, so does Russia, so we’ve got to get there first.
What did Trump get for his forward thinking? Mocked by the MSM and a funny show, “Space Force,” that depicts the head of the agency, played by Steve Carell, as a bumbling moron. He usually gets the job done, but just barely. It’s more a matter of luck than competence.
Biden’s presidency is the same, except Slow Joe has run out of luck and he never had competence.
“So if Bezos retired, who is running Amazon now?”
One of its drones?
Seriously, I don’t think Bezos is retired, I think it’s trash talk from Musk. But I have no real idea.
Just speculating, as so many of us do here from time to time. lol
It’s LAWFARE and our side needs to get better at it.
There is currently no good way to trap and collect metal and composite materials circling the globe at many thousands of miles per hour, much faster than bullets or shrapnel. And given that above the atmosphere there is essentially no friction they just keep going round and round and will continue to do so. Intact modern satellites have systems to alter their course to enter the atmosphere so that they will burn up, but on the failed satellites these systems typically do not.
That is why SpaceX, the darling of many here but the current source of more dangerous space debris than all others combined has been raising a lot of red flags especially with our foreign partners. I am no fan of Bezos but he is just the latest target of Musk's ire. The FAA, NASA, FCC, OSHA and other regulatory agencies have been more frequent recipients. I admire Elon Musk a great deal but he has a long history of belittling any agency or individual attempting to rein in his sometimes ill-advised efforts.
Chairman Xi.
Tesla was also in love with a pigeon. I’m unsure of the significance of that hopefully unrequited love.
That’s ok. Both these guys can afford a few dozen lawyers to duke it out.
Bozo and Blue Origin are so far behind SpaceX that the only way to catch up their technology, to where SpaceX was years ago, is to sue Musk
Not one Starlink SAT has crashed into another object.
Get your facts straight.
Retired from Amazon not the world.
There are already over 100,000 subscribers to the Starlink beta program, paying $100 a month fees to SpaceX, after paying $500 for the satellite dish when they first sign up.
And there are another 500,000 eager future subscribers who have paid $100 to SpaceX to register, awaiting when the service will go live in their localities.
So far, user experience has been great as hundreds of YouTube videos from users will testify.
but with the current failure rate
Failure rate of what?
there is some risk involved with the shear amount of space debris finding its way into low orbit and traveling at thousands of miles an hour and creating a very risky space two or three hundred mile above the earth that could impede future projects and make them
So far, no SpaceX satellite has collided with any satellite from any other company or country. The SpaceX satellites have in built collision avoidance technology. This is impressive because SpaceX accounts for a pretty high percentage (about 33%) of all active satellites in orbit.
He really is? I guess I’d do the same if I had his money.
Thanks!
Thank you!
Yes. He and other private investors should consult with NASA before proceeding.
This is not the Wild West. Might feel like it but the consequences of garbage in space, rather than the relatively harmless garbage on the frontier, are rather significant.
BTW, thank you for your informative response. :)
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