StarLink bereit, einen Vertrag über 2,4 Milliarden US -Dollar für die Überholung der Flugverkehrskontrolle abzuschließen | Der Vertrag war bereits an Verizon vergeben worden, aber jetzt empfiehlt ein von SpaceX geführter Team innerhalb der FAA Berichten zufolge in Starlink.
https://www.theverge.com/news/620777/starlink-verizon-contract-faa-communication-musk
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There is absolutely no way this survives litigation.
Oh fuck.
Well, good thing I really enjoy train travel
Lets take a largely ground based system and replace it with a space based one. Not only will it have all the failure modes of a ground based system, but you get the bonus of space based failure modes. What a deal for the US taxpayer!
Privatizing the government on the Taxpayer backs.
That’s weird.
A Musk company, recommends that a Musk company be used to fix everything.
The absolute state of America. The worst thing is you are all going to sit back and accept this too.
This was Musk’s end game all along. Infiltrate the US government then start sticking his slimy tentacles into every facet of American revenue he can whether it’s defense contracts, civilian contracts, or anything else. He’s dead set on becoming the first trillionaire (a word my browser doesn’t even think exists yet since it’s telling me it’s a typo right now), and he’ll dismantle every regulation or way of life possible to attain it.
Please dead God No. Y’all see that turd of a truck, right? And the fact that jets are either colliding mid air or flipping upside down on the runway. I’d like to be able to fly again this century.
Grifters. There will be more of this to come. No-bid and rigged contracts, padded costs. All of what they say they’re there to “put a stop to” is just a smoke screen while they do it themselves.
I’m pretty sure Verizon is gonna fight for it.
We are clearly in the Upside Down now because I’m actually … what? Feeling bad for Verizon?
Clearly these are the End of Days.
I say settle these contract disputes with Katanas. Do it PPV. This would be as helpful as the system we have right now.
Immediately, all ATC will be told to go home effective immediately, them they will try to hire them back at less money, the rest of the work’s airlines no see US airspace as dangerous so refuse to fly there … all except Russian aircraft.
Let’s assume that one plane has an average of 150 passengers and every passenger has 5 relatives.
So every plane going down because of Musk will create 750 potential Luigis.
How will Joe Rogan provide cover for this I wonder 🤔
I’ve got a trip by flight planned in May. After that I’m not going anywhere near airlines for the foreseeable future. Move fast, break shit is NOT how you do the FAA. But that is legit the Musk / Tesla / SpaceX motto.
Dipshit Oligarchs Grifting Everyone
Don’t be fooled. That’s what DOGE really is about.
Elon Musk bought twitter for $40 billion and the USA for $270 million.
I definitely won’t be flying to the USA any time soon then… I wasn’t planning to, but definitely wouldn’t now
Cool, lets do it! Then the US govt should take over SpaceX via eminent domain. Pay Elon a „fair“ price of $1, and ensure that we eliminate waste by not giving Elon any more money for these contracts.
This is corruption and cronyism at its worse. This is what you can expect from the orange felon and his administration. They are all criminals and will run the government as such.
Totally fine. No conflict of interests what so ever.
/s
Scammers gonna scam. Never seen it at this level though. A lifelong grifting fraud actually taking over a country is pretty wild.
Hmmmm Handing off US airspace communications to Russia.
Never flying again. Zoom is better for meetings anyways. We get to show off our dogs and cats.
Never before in history so few have stolen so much from so many
I mean. If Elon is disassembling agencies with the goal of implementing his own ai to repair the damage. We have a serious conflict of interest and some very illegal business practices.
I would expect Verizon to sue
From the article: „….it is sure to raise accusations of favoritism, cronyism, and conflicts of interest.“
Sure does. Very Russian-esque.
Musks wishlist of corrupt federal contracts:
FAA [✓]
NOAA [ ]
NASA [ ]
GSA [ ]
US Army [ ]
You know, totally not the way government contracts are supposed to work. But here we are.
Elon musk owned team recommending Elon musk to take contract from other company.
Pretty sure that’s fucking illegal.
There it is. This is what the whole FAA thing has been all about.
This is one of the few times I want a big corporation to sue the fuck out of the federal government and win.
I’m an architectural engineer that works for a firm that does some government projects. I can’t go to a fucking baseball game with a sales rep from one of our equipment vendors because of the conflict of interest. Now this?!
Hope those Verizon board members and executives who voted for this circus suffer immensely for their idiocracy.
Now no one will be able to flee the nation as fascism seals the exits before revealing itself fully.
This is episode 1 of Handmaid’s Tale
Paying Musk to install his own blackmail devices/control mechanism is wild work tbh.
I think this is what is referred to as “racketeering,” and is something that is illegal. What a surprise.
I don’t imagine Verizon will just sit by and allowing a contract they’ve already been awarded to be snatched.
This is why Musk doesn’t give a fck about Tesla failing…
Sounds like a total conflict of interest seeing as how Elon Musk appears to be the de facto President of the United States owns Starlink.
Didn’t Musk recently threaten to shut Starlink down over Ukraine if they don’t comply? It seems risky to use it for anything critical at this time.