www.Tesmanian.com: SpaceX is getting closer to offering Starlink Internet

[jamesd at echeque.com]

On 2020-08-24 05:23, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 wrote:
> 	Satellites, solar panels, electric cars and similar garbage are old, subsidized products of govcorp. Musk is the 'marketing' guy.

Government is demonstrably incapable of creating technology.

Like government radar, NASA’s government rockets did not go anywhere.

If socialism could do science and technology, then the Soviet Union and
Mao’s China would have had better stuff.

Wherever you see a military with decent technology, it is because they
have a healthy private sector to buy it from or confiscate it from.

If socialism could produce high tech …
https://blog.jim.com/images/socialism-vs-capitalism/cuba-singapore.png

The difference is so obvious and enormous that you can see it from
space: https://blog.jim.com/images/socialism-vs-capitalism/Koreas.jpg

The difference is simple and glaringly obvious. Government cannot
produce science and technology, except by buying it or confiscating it
from private actors.

When the US captured Wernher von Braun it tried to build rockets and
failed. It asked him how his rockets were built, it looked at his
rockets, and it still failed. When it put him in charge, then it
succeeded. And when he died, rocketry stopped advancing until Space X.

Government funded him to build bigger rockets, probably bigger than the
private sector would have or could have. But it funded him because he
was already building rockets, as Hewlett Packard had already been
building electronic equipment, which work was disrupted, not sponsored,
by the wartime electronic counter measures work.

German rocketry started with the Verein für Raumschiffahrt (Society for
space travel). German rockets were based on VFR work, and American and
Russian rockets based on German work. And the Nazis shut down VFR, as
the American Government shut down Hewlett Packard.

Silicon Valley was not born of the Harvard Group’s Electronic Counter
measures. If it had been, Silicon Valley would be located in Harvard,
where almost every member of the Electronic Counter Measures group was
and remained. Rather, the Harvard group’s electronic counter measures
were born of seizing what was in Hewlett Packard’s garage, much as the
V2 and the space program was born of seizing what was in the garages of
VFR members.

That Silicon Valley happened where the government stole technology from,
(Hewlett Packard’s garage in Palo Alto) not where they stole technology
to (Harvard) shows that government did not cause Silicon Valley.

Similarly, NASA could not build rockets, except they put a man the Nazis
kidnapped from the VFR, and that they kidnapped from the Nazis, in charge.

Observe the Soviet Union.  Before the revolution, Russians were among
the world leaders in creating planes and such.

After the revolution, Lenin had to hire American experts, and all Soviet
cars were inferior knockoffs of American cars.

They did OK in building guns and suchlike, but that was Russian
socialism competing with American socialism.

And when American socialism attempt to create technology, what does it do.