SpaceX Starship Flight Test
SpaceX Starship Flight Test
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- utopian0
One SpaceX Rocket Launch Produces the Equivalent of 395 Transatlantic Flights worth of CO2 Emissions or 73 cars per year.
During the first stage of the rocket launch around 116 tons of CO2 was emitted in 165 seconds.
- Sounds like we should ban cars...Nairn
- for sure space technologies aren't built to be environmentally friendly. also that's a weird website.plash
- Basically you trash your house on the move out to the next one... Mars. That's the *way*.shapesalad
- are there any net neutral industries/ endeavors? seems like all the universe's systems is an exchange.plash
- elon invested $2 billion in startups to scrub CO2 out of the sky but you won't find @Dystopian posting that!hotroddy
- SpaceX lands a $2.89 billion contract with NASA in April 2021utopian
- SpaceX signs a $653 million contract with the US Air Force in 2020utopian
- esla accepts "certain payroll benefits" from the federal government's $600 billion 2020 pandemic stimulusutopian
- New York State put $750 million toward a SolarCity plant in Buffalo in 2016utopian
- SolarCity receives $497.5 million in grants, in addition to tax credits, by 2015utopian
- As of 2015, Tesla had sold $517 million in environmental credits to competitors per a federal mandate. Tax credits for consumers also helped them sell more carsutopian
- Nevada provides $1.3 billion in tax breaks and other incentives for a new Tesla "Gigafactory" in 2014utopian
- SpaceX receives $15 million from the state of Texas in 2014utopian
- The Energy Department loans Tesla $465 million in 2010utopian
- There ya go Knob Gobbler!utopian
- SpaceX has brought payloads to LEO down from around $2,500 per kilogram to around $20-30 per kilogram. Basically, it's cheaper for NASA to hire him.hotroddy
- https://i.imgur.com/…hotroddy
- socialist funded spacexmonospaced
- even an educated socialist knows he's not as efficient as the private sector.hotroddy
- even the private sector sucks on the teet of government funding and tax dollarsmonospaced
- sucking the teet is when you're playing Xbox while on gov't assistance. Ur not employing engineers to manipulate the laws of physics to advance USA's standinghotroddy
- ...in the world.hotroddy
- not to mention advance techonology that the Utopians of the future will take for granted one day. .hotroddy
- If they need tax to survive because they're 'essential' then why don't they pay it on their earnings? Privatise the profits, socialise the losses.MrT