Boeing-Lockheed rocket fails mid-flight, destroys payload of Amazon satellites (reuters.com)
41 points by rexbee 2 hours ago
zulux 2 hours ago
Sorry to hear this. The more ways to space the better.
alliao an hour ago
very bad news for Taiwan
AnimalMuppet an hour ago
How so?
ivewonyoung 32 minutes ago
Maybe because China is making big strides with space and reusable rockets just like they did with EVs and data centers while the world is just watching using their government powers to block and hamper SpaceX, Nvidia and Tesla etc. which unfortunately seem be the west's best and maybe only chance to stay ahead or catchup.
Conceding the EV race, and now the AI/robot/DC race and space race to China will probably ensure Taiwan will have a very bad time at some point.
ck2 41 minutes ago
how does Neil deGrasse Tyson put it again?
> "the launch wasn't a failure, it was an experiment rich in data"
gred 29 minutes ago
Ideally you run more than one or two experiments per year, though...
varispeed 2 hours ago
Every time I have to wait a long time to get a doctor's appointment or the police won't arrive in time when crime is reported I ponder how it could have been if Amazon paid their taxes.
At least there is some justice.
ecshafer an hour ago
> Every time I have to wait a long time to get a doctor's appointment
Privately funded and thus unrelated. Maybe lobby for increasing the number of residency slots, which is the only government backed filter.
> police won't arrive in time when crime is reported
Vote for a different DA, also the police are paid with property taxes, which Amazon does pay, but only if they are local.
lesuorac an hour ago
Who pays for a residency slot?
fastball 18 minutes ago
cowsandmilk an hour ago
> Privately funded and thus unrelated
Very US-centric response. And even then, US government funding is a determinant of how many doctors are trained.
echelon 17 minutes ago
ecshafer 42 minutes ago
tt24 an hour ago
This has nothing to do with anything, and Amazon’s payload is certainly paid back to them by Lockheed.
davidguetta an hour ago
These are not in my opinion not related.
Public service performances are not necessarily budget-driven
We have that big issue in france where at equal budget (even inflation adjusted) a lot of stuff went downhill
Aarostotle an hour ago
Ah, yes, I too am outraged by medical scarcity caused by...
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... convenient same-day shipping.
harry8 an hour ago
>... convenient same-day shipping
...replacing a significant part of the economy that paid its taxes with amazon who don't leading to budget cuts and so on.
That's the argument. Agree, disagree, don't engage, whatever, but what you've written here is
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...nonsense.
Sometimes people try to keep the forum sensible, according to the house rules, maybe its a losing battle already lost.