• Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    Sending so many satellites also requires so many rocket launchers that Google passed on it because it was too polluting.

    Starlink is the poster child of “fuck you, I got mine.”

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        3 months ago

        Google Ventures got a 7.5% stake in SpaceX in 2008 (which wasn’t the second-largest share at the time). Can you point me to resources that say they’re the second-largest shareholder of SpaceX today?