@Keith_Wasserman@wholemars@Tesla@elonmusk Had I known he was sleeping there, I would have offered him a bed in our nearby loft! Visited the center in 2006 before the Model S launched. I’ll never forget.
@ShibBender@blockchainchick@Queen1Crypto@grok Private investment built Starlink, which now earns Government contracts. Starlink was not a government project. The U.S. govt now pays for Starlink services it uses, just as it pays for planes, ships, or software from private companies. That is commerce, not subsidies.
@ShibBender@blockchainchick@Queen1Crypto@grok Starlink was not built with government funding or subsidies. It’s a privately funded commercial project by SpaceX — high-risk bet paid for with private investment, Falcon launch revenue, and reinvested profits.
Government contracts are paid services.