Comments by "Nicolae Crefelean" (@kneekoo) on "Jesús Enrique Rosas"
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Neil looks like a defender of bureaucracy. He pushes so hard on the idea that the great (and expensive) things are only done by nations and governments, that he can't see the irony and reality. Nations/governments are obviously going to do stuff expensively because they're inefficient people who do stuff with other people's money, and then they brag about their achievements. He claims that the private entities simply come and take those expensive projects and try to make a buck off of them, and doesn't go into the obvious details that you cannot copy/paste the highly expensive projects to make them commercially viable. By NASA's own study, Falcon Heavy costs over 40 times less in cost per kilogram to LEO. To Neil, that's just the private sector copying NASA for a buck.
Neil insists that no private company can push the space frontiers, and that SpaceX does what NASA has been doing for decades. He not only ignores the fact that Russia was the first to put a satellite and a man into orbit, or that they had the first space station, but also that SpaceX is the only entity to ever reuse rockets, and that Starship is getting close to being operational as a Mars vehicle despite the fact that NASA hasn't even drawn a contract to go there. He seems to believe that if SpaceX goes to Mars, it's going to be NASA's credit because the taxpayer money would pay the bill. He stubbornly ignores all of that, and seemingly doesn't care about how much innovation and even completely new ideas and technologies have to exist to make space exploration so much more affordable. He willfully ignores how all the work SpaceX does is allow people like him to break new frontiers simply because it enables a lot of research projects that would otherwise take centuries for NASA to accomplish, not because it lacks engineering talent, but because it's guided and funded by politicians.
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