politics

interesting dynamic in the gossip just popped up.

https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/1930722326754029980

is it possible to shunt political feuds into technological deprecation?

there's still a lot of terrestrial experiments (which require USG-scale funding) that will be pruned in this fallout, but a faint hope that extraterrestrial experiments will adapt.

In light of the President’s statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately https://t.co/NG9sijjkgW

This is not necessarily a bluff. Elon has been reluctant to take on new Dragon-related projects for awhile now, and would like to move human missions to Starship as soon as possible. Of course it would completely end ISS, and impair future commercial space stations. Wild times.

Eric Berger

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Good eye—that sounds like an information weapons research project to me