this will end up leading to disaster and it will cost significantly more in taxpayer dollars for the trouble, and republican members of congress should be asked about it every single day, particularly if they serve on related committees - ThreadSky

golikehellmachine.com • 5 days ago

this will end up leading to disaster and it will cost significantly more in taxpayer dollars for the trouble, and republican members of congress should be asked about it every single day, particularly if they serve on related committees

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A team from SpaceX is being brought in to overhaul FAA’s air traffic control system

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russetchatham.bsky.social•5 days ago

Also how is a major govt contractor allowed to be part of the govt at all? I know the rule of law is dead but under normal circumstances he would need to step away from all his businesses and put the money into a blind trust.

thegreer.bsky.social•5 days ago

"SpaceX engineers reinvent LORAN-C, but somehow shittier, less reliable, and more expensive."

thegreer.bsky.social•5 days ago

Oh you mean they discovered the eLoran program exists, added a lot of unnecessary complexity and cost, and somehow managed to make it dependent on satellites, which the whole point of the program had been to avoid?

Sounds about right.

hermajestykatniss.bsky.social•5 days ago

Wait, wait, wait....
haven't SEVEN Space X rockets exploded or otherwise totally failed in the past couple years??? And isn't that about HALF OF ALL THEIR LAUNCHES???

What The ever-lovin' FUCK??? A 50% safety rate should disqualify Elon Musk's company from even APPLYING to manage the FAA!!!

bosko11.bsky.social•5 days ago

Isn't there a law that says all government contracts have to go through a bid process?

ltlging.bsky.social•5 days ago

Because the private sector performs perfectly, eh Muskovite?

Exactly one month ago in case you've forgotten:
Jan. 17, 2025

cosmicloper.bsky.social•5 days ago

How much are they billing the taxpayers for that? And are they staying in Trump hotels and expensing it to us?

paul.ofthenorth.ca•5 days ago

I believe costing significantly more is the point.

The system seems to have been working. Improve it, don't replace it.

nldem3vote.bsky.social•5 days ago

So the people who blow up rockets are going to protect our air space!!!! My 7 year old knows how to wash his hands, I guess he is ready to be a surgeon!!

tradierunt.bsky.social•5 days ago

Our billionaire supporting media isn't gonna ask shit

soberguy.bsky.social•5 days ago

Wow. Y'all in serious danger.

fakekimmygibbler.bsky.social•5 days ago

They are going to try to make it "efficient" and "autonomous" or something. But the ATC system relies, and in some senses can ONLY rely, on well-trained, mission-focused and responsible human employees (because it involves endless combinations of unique human and situational problem-solving tasks).

golikehellmachine.com•5 days ago

i am sure you can make a compelling case that the whole system needs an overhaul, and i am sure more experienced major aerospace contractors have done that, many, many times, this is not how you do it, you do not set the barn on fire before figuring out how to evacuate the animals

jonesgp1996.bsky.social•5 days ago

And yet another conflict of interest.

technicalsquirrel.bsky.social•5 days ago

What's going on here is not an overhaul. It will be a witch hunt to find alternate explanations as to why the past 4 weeks have seen 30 years worth of crashes.

The excuses will be some combination of DEI, "antiquated legacy code", and the NATCA union. The recommendation will be privatization.

conjurial.bsky.social•5 days ago

if and when this criminal regime gets kicked out of power the state should seize Elon Musk's companies in recompense for this organized looting of the trreasury and then throw him in prison for the rest of his life

technicalsquirrel.bsky.social•5 days ago

See I'm afraid that the state is very close to buying Musk's companies for a ridiculous premium, realizing his goal of becoming an actual liquid billionaire, while he relinquishes zero control, and blames any failures on "government inefficiency".

estherinthewild.bsky.social•5 days ago

Exactly.

twoandseven.bsky.social•5 days ago

This is some Chesterton's Fence shit right here...

fakekimmygibbler.bsky.social•5 days ago

They are going to treat it like a fun automation coding project they did in college, one that was designed to fail, and was mainly in the curriculum to educate students about the professor's point about the limits of automation...

ohdeerthermos.bsky.social•5 days ago

I know someone who works in this space, for other countries, and it's not something you just... rewrite

cyclismo37a.bsky.social•5 days ago

Doing your dev work in production is bad enough when it just takes your hot take web site down.

Extremely cool to use this anti method on critical safety systems.

golikehellmachine.com•5 days ago

once again, it’s the chesterton’s fence administration

conjurial.bsky.social•5 days ago

it's the chesterton's massive drug abuse administration

(i.e., "I insist that before you remove any semblance of sobriety at any hour of the day you understand why it was put there in the first place")

anitmata.bsky.social•5 days ago

It's electric and they keep pissing on it

wolfgabe.bsky.social•5 days ago

Explosion

Devil: "So ya whizzed on the electric fence did ya?"

andraswf.bsky.social•5 days ago

You could have had Fred Thompson as President and y'all passed on him

banjofiend.bsky.social•5 days ago

Chesterton’s Fence all day every day with this group

https://bsky.app/profile/banjofiend.bsky.social/post/3lifhymzebc2t

accountabilabuddy.bsky.social•5 days ago

If I was a person who traveled in a small airplane as frequently as certain of these jerks do, I would go out of my way to make sure the air traffic controllers are extremely happy and well-rested.

But then I am not a fucking idiot.

ozmodiar.bsky.social•5 days ago

There’s nothing wrong with air traffic control. This is may be one of the clearest examples to show normies of them breaking stuff and degrading services for no reason

runningmn9.bsky.social•5 days ago

There’s nothing broken with any of this. Or at least there wasn’t. They just don’t like it because they aren’t making any money on it.

themamu.bsky.social•5 days ago

The guys who thought dirt and concrete alone was suitable for rocket launches? We are doomed

daftjunk.bsky.social•5 days ago

AND Musk will find a way to keep the system proprietary, so he can charge maintenance fees in perpetuity and fuck with it whenever he feels like reminding people he's important.

brilliantc.bsky.social•5 days ago

Create a problem, "solve" the problem...rinse and repeat.

drumtroll.bsky.social•5 days ago

Prediction: Trump will privatize FAA air traffic control and the contract will exclusively go to SpaceX.

calderwood.bsky.social•5 days ago

This isn’t even anything new. This is just the Shock Doctrine. They’re not inventive; just malignant.

floridadab.bsky.social•5 days ago

Where are the airline CEO’s on this. Like if there is a big accident post whatever the fuck it is they are doing, there is no pathway at all to regain trust. I’m already not comfortable flying just on the what they might have screwed up already risk.

grungehamster.bsky.social•5 days ago

Just think: in a decade we'll have people explaining that the shift to SpaceX was an indulgence to the woke Silicon Valley programmer subset over good true American union air traffic controllers and you need a Republican in charge to prevent this sort of thing happening.

catsworking.bsky.social•5 days ago

There's no "overhauling" a system they know nothing about. They're just going to fuck it up beyond recognition so no plane that takes off can trust that it will land in one piece. I swear to God, I don't understand why these saboteurs doing it in our faces aren't getting arrested.

fiore-blu.bsky.social•5 days ago

I wish this would lead to outrage from the airlines, pilots, the flight crew, and air traffic controllers walking out in protest. Everyone’s safety is at risk!

baldmonk.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yeah but fElon will make lots of money from it.

asherd.xyz•5 days ago

Politicians mostly fly commercial! They're on the line here just as much as anybody!

esghound.com•5 days ago

"The planes learned their lesson (don't crash)" - Susan Collins

conjurial.bsky.social•5 days ago

she's very concerned

aiddonvalentine.bsky.social•5 days ago

"Is there a way we can do private high speed rail?"

conjurial.bsky.social•5 days ago

Most Republicans voted not to impeach Trump and then not to convict him shortly after he sent a violent mob to attempt to murder them

conjurial.bsky.social•5 days ago

they are just the most embarrassingly craven, spineless, bootlicking nonentities this side of a New York Times political reporter

meza.bsky.social•5 days ago

Genuinely one of the most baffling things I've seen in politics

conjurial.bsky.social•5 days ago

especially at that particular moment when they had a sense of personal outrage and the knowledge they could get rid of him by acting collectively, I think the only explanation is bad character: they're all personally cowards

weak little men with no self-respect who can't take a stand

grandvic.bsky.social•5 days ago

Any Republican would gladly burn to death in a plane crash than ever admit they were wrong in letting Space Karen run our government into the toilet

nickforbrains.bsky.social•5 days ago

They’re gonna kill us and blame it on the woke libtards

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