Suppose Elon is a bad guy. What's to stop him from dragging a big space rock into orbit and holding the planet hostage in X years? Government will build in redundant checks and balances at extra expense. Corporations, not so much.
The hundreds, maybe thousands, of people working under him. The majority of which would need to agree that project "Dr. Evil style giant space rock randsom" was a good idea.
You're the only response that actually tried to make a legitimate argument without resorting to logical fallacies and insults. Thanks.
Still, I have to disagree with your point. Lots of people did bad things on Hitler's orders. Lots more looked the other way. The "thousands of people" argument falls apart when looking at historic examples.
This is...just...wow. Your argument boils down to being unable to trust any company that works with dangerous materials.
How do we know Dow Chemical isn't going to make a huge poison bomb and hold the country hostage? What about Lockheed Martin creating their own private army to take over the US and sabotaging all of the equipment they sell to the government? Maybe Boeing will threaten to crash brand new 777s into buildings all across the US unless we pay a ransom? SpaceX doesn't even have to capture an asteroid, they build something that easily has the capabilities of an ICBM already!
Supervillian schemes rarely make any sense in the real world. You get a lot more money by just commercializing the tech and selling it normally. Plus you don't have the army knocking at your door and pesky superheroes ruining your day.
Yeah, the neoconservatives are definitely opposed to SpaceX because it rides against their love of government redundancy and oversight. I mean, what happens when Elon starts loading these rockets up with chemtrails, right?
