• PugJesus@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Not very. The DoD is aggressively apolitical with regards to domestic politics.

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      7 days ago

      DoD is the institution that basically bankrolls most of what musk ever did, to me this just feels like a modern howard hughes, a flashy rich public person that does “crazy” things, very usefull thing to have to hide big military projects in plain sight…

      I dont even know what the implications are when the guy that was supposed to be the diversion ends up that close to the power that funds him.

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        I dont even know what the implications are when the guy that was supposed to be the diversion ends up that close to the power that funds him.

        “Do not cross the streams. That would be bad.”

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        6 days ago

        So far Musk’s relationship with DoD is mostly just hucking their satellites into orbit. He’s not really doing the crazy military stuff.

        DoD is way more interested in the big primes - Lockheed, Northrop, General Dynamics, Raytheon, Boeing, etc. Satellites are just a piece of the bigger package. They still need missiles, tanks, and aircraft to act on what the satellites teach them.

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      That said I am very concerned with the influence he undoubtedly will have with our space asset acquisition policies.