> Your claims about the dollar amounts the US government has paid to SpaceX are false. The numbers are much higher than that. Just do a quick search.
Can you please be exact on what I am wrong about? I didn't even metion a praticular number, the numbers I mention have nothing to do with how much the US pays SpaceX. The numbers I mention was investment in to moon rocket program.
Total amount paid to SpaceX overall is anyway completely irrelevant. Typical Thunderf00t style obfuscation and confusing spreading.
The Apollo program also didn't include how much money was spent on military payloads, so its again, completely irrelevant in the comparison.
And in your typical fashion, you competently ignored the overall point. Appollo had a far, far, far larger budget then SpaceX ever had and it had if for far longer. Arguing with you is utterly frustrating.
> value there will be in massively increased amounts of junk
Ah the old Thunderf00t moving the goalpost move. I guess humans should never have invented ships, because it massive increases the amount of debris in the ocean.
Also please study orbital dynamics. Starlink itself will leave zero orbital debirs.
> Maybe Starlink is a good idea, maybe not. I don’t really have an opinion on that, and it’s hard for me to picture why and how they have 4 million subscribers.
So because you don't understand how the world works, its everybody else that is wrong. Great attitude to have.
> But even if it is a good idea, what are the next 10 good ideas?
Ah we are moving the goal posts again. I really don't want to have a discussion with you, because whatever I say, you will simply move the goal post again anyway.
There are tons of things humanity already does from space. And we can do those things more and better now. That is already good enough. If you personally don't see the value of any of the things humanity has done in space in the last 80 years, then I can't really help you at this point.
In addition there are literally 1000s of space startups we can have an argument about each one of them. Any that I bring up, you can come up with a bunch of reasons why they aren't actually go ideas and you might be right. But at least I'm not arrogant enough to claim to know if they will work or not.
