Bet the pro net-neutrality tweets age as well as this Neil deGrasse Tyson tweet

The very conduct of capitalism is people taking expensive risks in the hopes that the consumer goods produced will sell for a price higher than production costs.

What a dumb tweet by Mr. Tyson.

Lucky for us we have a guy like Elon mush willing to donate billions of dollars into a venture like space. Instead of billionaires like trump that spend his money conning the little man with trump university or his trump foundation

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Bet the pro net-neutrality tweets age as well as this Neil deGrasse Tyson tweet

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Neil Tyson has gotten to be a bit full of himself. He shoots from the hip far too often nowadays.

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The very conduct of capitalism is people taking expensive risks in the hopes that the consumer goods produced will sell for a price higher than production costs.

What a dumb tweet by Mr. Tyson.

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He wasn't entirely wrong. What financial incentive is there for SpaceX to send a manned mission to Mars? Create a space research station like the ISS? He was dead wrong about private investment in space, but his point is still valid. SpaceX wouldn't be where it is today without government generated demand.

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SpaceX wouldn't be where it is today without government generated demand.

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This isn't entirely wrong. I will say though, the company that is first to mine asteroids is worth trillions off the bat.

I understand that Musk's flight was a victory for private enterprise, but I still think large-scale space missions will be the purview of governments, as governments are more insulated from risk and expense. As we see the burgeoning programs from India and China, it will be interesting to see what reaction the government at large will have.

By and large, rocketry technology was funded by governments, based off the research of numerous individuals such as Robert Goddard and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, neither of whom were funded by corporations, although Goddard received a large amount of pre-war funding from the Guggenheim Foundation. I don't think Esnault-Pelterie, nor Hermann Oberth were involved in the private sector either. I haven't even mentioned von Braun either, who only joined the private sector after his time with NASA. In the pre-war era, that rocketry research wasn't all useful to either the private or public sector (hence why Goddard had to find funding through a foundation).

What has been a major success has been the public-private partnerships that NASA has used to fund research, through which a whole litany of devices were developed.

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Historically, people that work in the scientific world are absolute retards when it comes to various economic and political issues. 

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Generally true of most academics.

Holy shite.

They actually have people believing a competitor and the competition can be conflated