Get fucked, that’s gonna be the respondes.

The current administration is trying to pull the funding back even tho its been appropriated by congress. Funny how congress isn’t doing anything about it.

I mean, this will suck in rhe short term, but these companies will exit the U.S. market if it gets to be uneconomical, and we’ll be fucked, not them. Trump’s I Am sO sMaRt comments all the time will make him look like an even bigger idiot than he already does.

If we actually want manufacturing in the U.S., give companies incentives to do business here. This is the opposite of incentives.

There was a lot more to the article than this. I’ve sat on console during launches,and reading their exchange gave me some anxiety. Trying to live troubleshoot thrusters issues would be a nightmare on an unscrewed satellite, let a lone one where it’s human rated, and the people flying it could die if you are unable to recover fast enough.

You train for this crap excessively, so everyone knows what to do, but that doesn’t make it any less nerve wracking in the moment.

Probably, there are also bots on lemmy already bcz it’s grown quite a bit. They are definitely trying to direct the conversation as well.