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		incahoots on May 30, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Starlink's disruption of the space industry >The profit motive has proved, over and over, to be a more effective motivator than anything else. The USSR and it's space program would argue differently.

WalterBright on May 30, 2024 [–]

How so? NASA wasn't motivated by the profit motive in the 1960s, either. And SpaceX has completely trounced NASA and the Russians in rocket technology.

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