Billionaires in Space

[-Jrabbit]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm starting to think Dinner does not like unions.

[Egbert]

I am sure Oerdin dislikes unions, with a passion.

[Dauphin]

Yeah, that is true. And the unions were trying to and failing to unionize Amazon (because workers themselves didn't want it) while Walmart wasn't the target of a corrupt and lying unions.

Like I said, if people believe the debunked lies then they can shop else where but they don't do so. At some point the market has spoken. Lastly, yes. A huge amount of the "don't let the rich guy I keep buying stuff from to not return to Earth" bull **** is simple jealousy. "I am mad that some one else was smarter and harder working than me so now I am butt hurt and jealous."

If you say talent accounts for 99% of where you get to in life, and 1% is luck, the difference luck makes is being the richest person in the world as opposed to being just in the top 2% of wealthiest people in the world. Or the difference between having $100bn in your bank account vs $1m.

Just sayin'.

[Uncle Sparky]

In fairness, you don't get that kind of money by giving a **** about other people, right?

[Dinner]

https://youtu.be/Ah_F4d7pdh8

[Dauphin]

A bunch of nut jobs decrying another bunch of nut jobs?

May I suggest you get a better YouTube diet.

[Dauphin]

The guy who hosts that show once responded to an MP that was raising awareness of rape threats made against her that he doubted it was true because even he wouldn’t rape her. The. Hashtagged that Feminism is cancer. Many implications, one of which was that he would consider raping, or has raped, others and that he denies online rape threats that are public record.

he later said he might rape her, but there wasn’t enough beer.

Not a good look.

[Dinner]

If you say talent accounts for 99% of where you get to in life, and 1% is luck, the difference luck makes is being the richest person in the world as opposed to being just in the top 2% of wealthiest people in the world. Or the difference between having $100bn in your bank account vs $1m.

Just sayin'.

Do you like talk to yourself? Do you like making claims no one but you made? It sure seems so.

[Dinner]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm starting to think Dinner does not like unions.

I am sorry inconveniente truths upset you. That says more about you than anyone else though. Man points out that self interested liars told lies and you get upset about the truth being told. Way to miss the point that conflicts of interest were at work.

Yes, lies and smear campaigns are an essential part of the corrupt practices of union bosses try to force unionization drives. It is telling that the actual workers rejected that nonsense. Just like it is telling that the far left started stupid petitions to "stop him from returning to earth". Yes, jealousy and envy is at the heart of that stupidity.

Maybe they should redirect their energies towards actually productive purposes? You know, things which will actually improve theor lives with hard work and self improvement.

[-Jrabbit]

Dude, where do I sound upset? I made a simple, 1-sentence observation. Which you quoted in full.
For some reason, it totally triggered you, ranting for 3 paragraphs about things I never addressed.

GET. A. GRIP.

[giblets]

Dinner washes Jeff Bezo's butt with his tongue.

[Egbert]

I am sorry inconveniente truths upset you. That says more about you than anyone else though. Man points out that self interested liars told lies and you get upset about the truth being told. Way to miss the point that conflicts of interest were at work.

Yes, lies and smear campaigns are an essential part of the corrupt practices of union bosses try to force unionization drives. It is telling that the actual workers rejected that nonsense. Just like it is telling that the far left started stupid petitions to "stop him from returning to earth". Yes, jealousy and envy is at the heart of that stupidity.

Maybe they should redirect their energies towards actually productive purposes? You know, things which will actually improve theor lives with hard work and self improvement.

Employers also engage in lies and smear campaigns to prevent unionisation. To my mind, there needs to be some balance between unions and employers.

[ricketyclik]

[N35t0r]

'ruin astronomy forever'
lol, hyperbole much?

[ricketyclik]

Well, you know, it IS a comic

[Donegeal]

It is very difficult to accomplish a big ticket mission (such as returning to the moon or getting to Mars) when priorities change every four or eight years as presidents come and go. NASA needs to be able to be independent of political whims and budgets. If it's not, then billionaires in space is the only way we'll get there.

[Jon Miller]

Fair point.

JM

[Jon Miller]

(Note that I already was sympathetic to billionaires spending money there, although I don't think there should be billionaires, I think it is a fair point that billionaires efforts could be replaced by a better functioning national science department/ministry).

JM

[N35t0r]

(Note that I already was sympathetic to billionaires spending money there, although I don't think there should be billionaires, I think it is a fair point that billionaires efforts could be replaced by a better functioning national science department/ministry).

JM

I agree. Better doing this than buying another massive yacht, with a second, smaller, yacht to act as helipad (what do you mean, he can afford to do that also? ).

One of the big problems with NASA is that they get a lot of earmarked funding from Congress, and there is a lot of pork going around there *cough*SLS*cough*. Unless you change it so that NASA can have total autonomy wrt their funding, you'll find it very hard to avoid this. And if you do manage that, then it's more likely that NASA's budget will go down, and congress will find another way to funnell spending into their districts.

If anything, we should be thankful that SpaceX up-ended the whole industry. Boeing several years ago was arguing (with a lot of political support) that they should be kept as the sole source of the commercial crew program, since they were the company with experience. They still haven't reached the ISS, and that is with SpaceX running laps around them. Imagine if they had been the only ones! (Oh, wait, I don't have to, look at SLS!)

[EPW]

40 minutes till launch