<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt">On Thursday, May 31, 2012 3:43 AM Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy@gmail.com> wrote:<br><div><div>>>> This is very exciting! I suppose we shall see if taking<br>>>> the libertarian approach to space will work out better<br>>>> than the previous endeavors...<br>><br>>> This is not a "libertarian approach to space" transport. It is,<br>>> at best, a partly private approach to supporting a basically<br>>> non-libertarian approach to space exploration. NASA isn't<br>>> ponying up money it got justly to pay for a ride on SpaceX<br>>> rockets. Instead, it relies on involuntary contributions from<br>>> viewers like you. :/<br>><br>> http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/05/30/spacex-signs-contract-to-launch-worlds-most-powerful-rocket/?intcmp=trending<br>> <br>> Well,
Dan, that didn't take long, did it? LOL Is this a little<br>> more libertarian/free enterprise for ya?<br><br>I'm sure that was in the works for a while. It might have been contingent on the ISS docking going well.<br><br>But this doesn't alter my earlier position: the NASA contract is not an example of a "libertarian approach to space" transport. It's just an example of the government contracting out. A libertarian approach to anything would mean precisely one where no individual negative property rights were violated. Anything involving a government, which receives funding involuntary and otherwise uses force to get stuff, is not libertarian.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Dan<br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>