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[–] Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 109 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sending so many satellites also requires so many rocket launchers that Google passed on it because it was too polluting.

Starlink is the poster child of "fuck you, I got mine."

[–] brlemworld@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Google is the second largest shareholder of Space X.

[–] nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 37 points 2 months ago
  1. get rid of "do no evil"
  2. invest in evil
  3. ?????
  4. profit!
[–] lengau@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago

Google Ventures got a 7.5% stake in SpaceX in 2008 (which wasn't the second-largest share at the time). Can you point me to resources that say they're the second-largest shareholder of SpaceX today?