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[–] rwbj 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

I completely agree. But I think the thing is, you do actually have skin in the game. We all do.

Space, and very possibly SpaceX, represent the future of humanity. Exploration, resource utilization, colonizing other planets, and ultimately not just making humanity interplanetary - but making it a space fairing civilization. This is the next very obvious direction that humanity is heading in. ULA has had literally decades to do what SpaceX is doing. And they had all the funding in the world.

For instance did you know that ULA gets a billion dollars a year for doing literally nothing? It's called a launch assurance subsidy and is designed to ensure that all of their operating costs are covered by the government, to ensure that the military always has a company to launch things for them. In reality it's completely unnecessary and just a result of corruption and cronyism.

But now for ULA to be actively antagonistic and hurtful towards a company actually trying, with a threadbare budget, to change the space industry and world as we know it? Seriously, fuck those guys.