re: I don't believe that

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Success_Machine — 12/9/2003 9:51:05 PM (archived)

I don't think competition has anything to do with it. Most, if not all, private space ventures have so far depended on government grants, gullible investors, or wealthy hobbiests to operate at all.

Government raises the bar on nearly everything. For example, loathsome money-grubbers would be building houses out of sticks and sod if it weren't for government-enforced building codes; your home would be a fire-trap, as would everyone else's. There is no privatization of manned space technology because it is too dangerous and no amount of profit is possible as long as we value human life.

It is more likely that in the absence of government control of space technology, the same devices would be sold to terrorists, warlords, drug runners, and wouldn't do anything good for the advancement of human spaceflight.

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Human Spaceflight - a future without NASA? - phil - 12/9/2003 6:02:57 PM
- Comm on admit it--NASA is just cover for Bush & Rumsfield's plan to Militarize Space N/T (n/t) - Ima Liberal - 12/9/2003 10:18:58 PM
- re: Human Spaceflight - a future without NASA? - Tom Brosz - 12/9/2003 7:39:53 PM
  - Congress says NASA *can* offer competitive prizes. Here's the official link documenting this... - SpaceProjects.com - 12/9/2003 8:01:55 PM
    - I didn't say they "couldn't" offer prizes. I said they "won't." (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 12/10/2003 12:34:17 AM
    - re: Privatization could increase the cost to launch - Success_Machine - 12/9/2003 8:47:46 PM
      - There needs to be COMPETITION between entrepreneurial ventures, NOT merely between corrupt contractors like Boeing. - SpaceProjects.com - 12/9/2003 9:22:39 PM
        
        re: I don't believe that - Success_Machine - 12/9/2003 9:51:05 PM
        
        re: I don't believe that - McFly - 12/9/2003 10:57:43 PM
        
        re: Ok, point taken, but... - Success_Machine - 12/10/2003 12:18:03 AM
        
        re: Yuk, Yuk - Success_Machine - 12/10/2003 12:22:35 AM
        
        Itys a long way between government regulation of homebuilders and haveing a Government Homebuilding Agency - Scott Evil - 12/9/2003 10:25:54 PM
        
        re: What costs more: Building the house, or building the utilities? - Success_Machine - 12/10/2003 12:04:28 AM
        
        In the United States... Utilities and roads leading to housing developments are installed and paid for by the developers - Scott Evil - 12/10/2003 12:38:09 AM
        
        re: Ok, here is an interesting analogy - Success_Machine - 12/10/2003 1:32:22 AM
        
        re: To add to my statement - Success_Machine - 12/9/2003 9:55:50 PM
        
        re: Boeing IS an entrepreneurial venture - Success_Machine - 12/9/2003 10:22:41 PM
        
        Huh? Boeing has lobbied AGAINST tax incentives, and COMPETITIVE prizes. It hired Ms. Druyun (a corrupt Air Force contracting official) before firing her last week, too. - SpaceProjects.com - 12/9/2003 11:07:27 PM
        
        re: They are in it for the money - Success_Machine - 12/10/2003 12:06:20 AM
        
        They're in it for TAXPAYERS' money, not private consumers'. - SpaceProjects.com - 12/10/2003 2:11:21 AM
        
        re: They're ALL in it for taxpayer's money - Success_Machine - 12/10/2003 3:19:43 AM
        
        Perhaps the best test of whether a space company's truly entrepreneurial: would they support NASA's offering competitive prizes. - SpaceProjects.com - 12/10/2003 7:07:07 AM
        
        Your fixation on competitive prizes is pretty naive - Larry J - 12/10/2003 6:29:46 PM
        
        But campaign finance reform prevailed today at the Supreme Ct. level. Unions and huge contractors lost. - SpaceProjects.com - 12/10/2003 9:00:26 PM

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