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Steve Wozniak – “A Private space company is starting up, unlike the others.”

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I like Woz but am tried of billionaires, be they politicians, idle rich, or activists, playing the "I'm on the side of the little guy" card. Woz and friends might have something great going but I doubt the little guy is truly what motivates them. Drop the proletariat washing and let the science and engineering speak for itself.

In some way I am happy that we have these billionaires playing an appendix measuring contest over which of their space ventures will be first/best/else in space.

These are not easy not cheap problems to solve. So let them pour their money into it.

I would gladly also accept a new company into the race that has altruistic motives guiding it.

Just have a hard time believing it.

I'd be happier if they measured their appendix by how much CO2 they are pumping out of the atmosphere.

How do you know they don’t?

I think you meant to imply an inverse relationship.

Space launches account for negligible amount of the CO2 emissions at present time compared to the total that our society emits.

There is obviously the very strong likelyhood that number of launches will continue to grow, to a point where this will become a major issue.

There is however a financial incentive to lower the fuel consumption as much as possible in these rockets, which I believe will push these companies to do so. But only to a degree.

Hopefully human kind will be able to use something akin to mass drivers or a space based gravity hook to launch loads without exhaust in the future.

But in the meantime we will need to emit something.

What I took this to mean is that this company will not be tied to any nation's military complex or government funding.

I'm eager to learn what Woz means by this.

All I could find so far was this:

> a 3D printing site reported Wozniak's company appeared to be using a printer for high-strength titanium — and suggested the company might have something to do with cleaning up space junk. [0]

[0] https://3dprint.com/283866/apples-steve-wozniak-to-clean-up-...

"Not like the others" could also allude to it being a company that removes junk from space instead of putting it there.

This might be more exciting if Woz hadn't sold his name to pump a scamcoin last year.

Except for Branson, aren't most of the "space billionaires" of US origin or activity? It seems to me that most other countries have only government funded space programs.

Is it just me or does that video clip feel a lot like "Here's to the crazy ones" / the Think Different campaign from Apple back in the day?

So it's not just privatized NASA catching up with decades old tech?

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