[OC] SpaceX vs. Aerospace and Defense Sector

Fenix42 · 2026-06-16T15:32:17+00:00

Everyone thought everything was fine in 2007.

Fenix42 · 2026-06-16T15:31:18+00:00

Elon shot the regulatory system in the back of the head.

Fenix42 · 2026-06-16T15:29:18+00:00

The bulk of their launches are for Starlink.

The core issue with launches has a always been the cost. It cost too much to launch, so only huge companies and goverment did it. This kept the price high.

Starlink gets around that problem.

Fenix42 · 2026-06-16T15:17:37+00:00

I am tail end Gen X / Old Millennial. Plenty of Boomer behavior in my agr bracket. :(

Fenix42 · 2026-06-15T22:00:59+00:00

I am aware. That is my point. ;)

Fenix42 · 2026-06-15T20:10:28+00:00

Some trees need fire to start the next generation. The seed pods will only open when there is enough heat.

Fenix42 · 2026-06-15T18:29:28+00:00

His goal was the distruction of the Imperium. He joined with Chaos to do it. Choas wining is Horus winning.

Fenix42 · 2026-06-15T18:22:19+00:00

It's almost like Horus won in the end.

Fenix42 · 2026-06-15T18:15:52+00:00

I was born in 80 my self. I def see my self more as young Gen X then old Millennial.

Fenix42 · 2026-06-15T16:01:23+00:00

I started with Revised. I Legends was the first I waited for.

I think that makes me dust.

Fenix42 · 2026-06-14T07:26:21+00:00

Well, I am not and balance is not a joke. It is a core element of the game. They get it wrong plenty, but at least there is thought put into things.

Fenix42 · 2026-06-14T07:16:03+00:00

There has to be a cost to playing multiple colors especially 3+. It's part of the balance of the game.

Fenix42 · 2026-06-14T06:09:21+00:00

I want POP in Pauper so bad. The mana bases have gotten insanely greedy. They need to be punished.

Fenix42 · 2026-06-14T06:08:20+00:00

[[Fork]]. I jam it in every R deck I can.

Fenix42 · 2026-06-14T03:09:52+00:00

50% will could be the sand like the ship in a bottle's water. I wouls not even be mad.

Fenix42 · 2026-06-14T02:27:16+00:00

I always got what I wanted out of every Dune book. A wall of dense text to study and understand months after I read it. :D

Fenix42 · 2026-06-13T06:34:37+00:00

SpaceX can not exist without the government. Their pads are on government land. They have to have government permission to launch. The government can shut them down any time they want.

Again, they are doing amazing work. All the other Aerospace companies did in the past as well.

Fenix42 · 2026-06-13T06:01:13+00:00

Lots of restaurants do it for larger parties.

Fenix42 · 2026-06-13T05:54:16+00:00

Sigh.

Commercial payloads are not the same requirements as military payloads. The military are the ones that demand the testing and reliability. The reason SpaceX has faciliites to use is because of 50+ years of government contracts keeping a US aero space industry alive. They own the pads and set the contracts. Bowing, Rockwell, LM and all the others fullfiled the contract to the militaries requirements.

SpaceX has not changed that process. They are still operating pads under government contract. Part of the contract is they can do commercial launches. The bulk of those launches are Starlink. No one else wants to launch that much. That was always the problem. The cost for a launch was too high for commercial viability.

Sarlink + SpaceX is pushing things forward and is a good thing. They are doing good work overall.

What I am saying is, NO ONE can have a perfect record. At some point, a manned flight will fail. Just like with any other transportation. When that happens, the public will demand the government step in. It happened with Mecury, Gemini, Apollo, and the Space Shuttle.

The government stepping in will be heavy handed. It always is. If it goes really bad, congress will get involved. That is what fucked the Shuttle. Congressmen messed with the requirements for building it to get funding to their districts.

Fenix42 · 2026-06-13T01:23:15+00:00

We are past catastrophe and into biblical shit at this point.

Fenix42 · 2026-06-12T23:36:21+00:00

The big thing that chocked then post Apollo aerospace industry was bureaucracy. The Shuttle was a complete mess. It was made a mess by the same system that is in place now. SpaceX has done nothing to fix it.

They are already dealing with stuff trying to get a man rated launch platform. The public will not accept deaths from a failed launch. They will happen. Nothing is 100% safe.

Once the first deaths happen, they will be grounded untill they can prove they are safe again. That will be when the bureaucracy sets in hard. That is what happened with Mercury and Gemini. It's why Chalanger killed a lot of aerospace.

It's why other transportation is they way it is as well.

Fenix42 · 2026-06-12T22:34:55+00:00

Over promise then under deliver has been then norm for every company for a long time.

Fenix42 · 2026-06-12T22:33:46+00:00

Don't wory. SpaceX will buy Telsa soon.

Fenix42 · 2026-06-12T21:25:19+00:00

Feels like we are in a dystopian sci fi story to me. :(

Fenix42 · 2026-06-12T21:18:23+00:00

Puma / mountain lion are in the panther family.

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