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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket tests in Texas are emitting so much methane you can see it from space::So much you can see it from the ISS in space.

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[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 59 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Fun notes from America's other privately owned, publicly funded space program. Even if you think that privatization of space is a good thing (you're wrong, it's not, but let's just assume for the sake of argument that it is) how do you justify the fact that the public takes on huge swaths of the development cost, then has to pay to use the service, then has to pay to clean up externalities like an ocean of methane in the atmosphere?

[-] Cynoid@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Because public programs were somehow even more expensive for the same externalities and service.

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