Reddit reviews Orphans of Apollo

>Food and drug companies can regulate themselves perfectly well.

Well considering that the food inspection is miserably underfunded in the united states the current state of affairs is a example of how companies do not suddenly start pouring acetone into their products the second a regulator leaves the building. Killing customers tends to end poorly, especially when they can sue your company into the ground.


>they wouldn't take advantage of workers at all

Well if you look into the way taxation affects smaller businesses its no wonder companies get to pick and choose who to hire. Its been made a buyers market for labor because it costs small business 25-50% more to comply with regulations than larger businesses.


>Hell all the banking laws caused the Great Recession anyway

Gross over simplification this article goes in to great and sourced detail about how the Government had a more significant role in extending and worsening the Great Depression than it did starting it.


>And education sucks so much, lets just do less of it!


I have a friend who goes by the reddit name Rusty Shackleford who has been unschooled for his whole life, having never set foot in a public school he is more intelligent and capable of holding a complex conversation than his peers who have spent their lives in front of a white board. Of course one individual does not a trend make, but the fact remains that education is ultimately about children who are naturally curious and energetic you can educate in different ways. Reality is not multiple choice, although public school may leave you with that impression.


>And google would work without the internet.


But the government did not create the internet


>And satellites get into space on their own volition


I will give you the fact that rocket technology was accelerated in development by governments... for the purpose of building weapons of mass destruction. The fact that they spent a tiny tiny fraction of the budget they spent building nukes on a pissing contest to the moon instead of real exploration is probably not worth endangering the entire planet and killing millions (Germans used rocket bombs made by the same man who would design NASA's rockets). But with that given I present to you Orphans of Apollo a group of private individuals who wanted to step in and take space exploration further after the the US lost interest in putting people on its bomb delivery devices. Obviously they where stopped and space development held back.



Government is not the cause of all problems, humans cause problems. But Governments are made up of humans, when a business or a individual makes a mistake the consequences are limited. The company goes out of business, the individual loses his house, job, life ect. When Governments make a mistake it on a whole different scale that can affect billions of people for hundreds of years into the future.

I personally support the privatization of the ISS in whole or part if any private sector use can be made of its modules. Though I doubt the private sector is willing to invest in an aging structure when New Space companies like Bigelow Aerospace are offering to launch newer and easier to maintain stations in the near future for less than the cost of the ISS' yearly upkeep. The sale would also require the consent of all stakeholders, one of which(Russia) is planning to reuse some of the ISS' most critical modules in a future station. Those are just a couple of the reasons why privatization is unlikely.

If the ISS(at least the non-Russian sections) was, against all odds, privatized however, it would be one of the most ironic occurrences in commercial space history. For those not-in-the-know, NASA and the US government allegedly pressured Russia to deorbit what would have been the first commercial space station, Mir, believing that it would compete with the ISS. Using ITAR to prevent an electromagnetic tether from being exported so that MirCorp could raise Mir into a stable parking orbit is considered an example of this. The documentary Orphans of Apollo was produced a number of years later describing what occurred from the New Space POV.

Like I said, some one needs to put it all down and stop the propaganda. I can't tell the malfeasance of nasa in a reddit post. Here is only a taste.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster

http://www.amazon.com/Orphans-Apollo-Tom-Clancy/dp/B002HJHGUO

http://www.bealaerospace.com/

This is just a small piece of ice floating in the north Atlantic.