🚨 JUST IN: Elon Musk is deploying Space X engineers to fix the antiquated air traffic control systems in the United States, calling it a “non-partisan matter”

Inevitably though, leftists with EDS will attempt to argue the team who can literally CATCH ROCKETS IN MID AIR with… pic.twitter.com/d6aieqLtJv

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 17, 2025

FriscoKid said:

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I'm not liking the Musk relationship very much TBH. If he left his day job for 4 years then I would 100% appreciate his support, but he really can profit with the direction the government takes. His influence with AI is one thing. Space X and electric vehicles are another.

I hope his partnership with DC will help everyone and not be slanted to his company interests.

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Phatbob said:

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FriscoKid said:

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I'm not liking the Musk relationship very much TBH. If he left his day job for 4 years then I would 100% appreciate his support, but he really can profit with the direction the government takes. His influence with AI is one thing. Space X and electric vehicles are another.

I hope his partnership with DC will help everyone and not be slanted to his company interests.

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I'm sorry, are you new to the whole "Federal government " thing? How exactly do you think it has been working for decades? Even if it was what Musk is doing, he'd be just one of a long line of people.

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FriscoKid said:

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I'm not liking the Musk relationship very much TBH. If he left his day job for 4 years then I would 100% appreciate his support, but he really can profit with the direction the government takes. His influence with AI is one thing. Space X and electric vehicles are another.

I hope his partnership with DC will help everyone and not be slanted to his company interests.

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flown-the-coop said:

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FriscoKid said:

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I'm not liking the Musk relationship very much TBH. If he left his day job for 4 years then I would 100% appreciate his support, but he really can profit with the direction the government takes. His influence with AI is one thing. Space X and electric vehicles are another.

I hope his partnership with DC will help everyone and not be slanted to his company interests.

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What existed before Elon was that bureaucrats would "retire" to the private sector then leverage their connections in Congress and in the Executive to define requirements for new government "needs" then talk to their other friends about how to meet those "needs" then lobby the funding and millions later we have a study saying we need a new system and a failed implementation due to HUB/Section 3/DEI requirements.

At least with Elon it is all happening in the open. And he doesn't come across as someone who just wants more money or to be even more richer. He seems to view the wealth as a means to keep pursuing endeavors he believes benefits mankind.

Let him and Trump do their thing. If they are successful and make some bank doing it, we all benefit. With the libs, they get their wealth through destruction. So this is better.

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flown-the-coop said:

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People are up in arms assuming Elon will cheat the system whilst turning a blind eye for DECADES (and even now) to those that ACTUALLY cheated the system.

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VegasAg86 said:

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FriscoKid said:

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I'm not liking the Musk relationship very much TBH. If he left his day job for 4 years then I would 100% appreciate his support, but he really can profit with the direction the government takes. His influence with AI is one thing. Space X and electric vehicles are another.

I hope his partnership with DC will help everyone and not be slanted to his company interests.

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You think he's going to try something shady while he's under a media microscope that rivals what was done to Trump?

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Agzonfire said:

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He's also going to space to save the astronauts Biden abandoned and has been launching NASA satellites for years now. He didn't just show up during the campaign all of a sudden. He's been worjiwith our Government for decades.

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AlaskanAg99 said:

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So how on Earth do you think he's going to leverage ATC somehow to his benefit?

He doesn't make airplanes dude.

This is relatively straight forward tracking in 3 dimensional space. The one real issue is satellites don't have great accuracy for Z value (GPS). But that is a technical problem to be solved which should rely on aircraft sensors actively broadcasting altitude vs relying on radar.

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clw04 said:

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AlaskanAg99 said:

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So how on Earth do you think he's going to leverage ATC somehow to his benefit?

He doesn't make airplanes dude.

This is relatively straight forward tracking in 3 dimensional space. The one real issue is satellites don't have great accuracy for Z value (GPS). But that is a technical problem to be solved which should rely on aircraft sensors actively broadcasting altitude vs relying on radar.

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Because Elon doesn't have any history of identifying a market he feels he can disrupt and create a product/business ----

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AlaskanAg99 said:

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clw04 said:

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AlaskanAg99 said:

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So how on Earth do you think he's going to leverage ATC somehow to his benefit?

He doesn't make airplanes dude.

This is relatively straight forward tracking in 3 dimensional space. The one real issue is satellites don't have great accuracy for Z value (GPS). But that is a technical problem to be solved which should rely on aircraft sensors actively broadcasting altitude vs relying on radar.

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Because Elon doesn't have any history of identifying a market he feels he can disrupt and create a product/business ----

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Some of yall are just touched with dumbassedness.

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clw04 said:

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AlaskanAg99 said:

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clw04 said:

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AlaskanAg99 said:

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So how on Earth do you think he's going to leverage ATC somehow to his benefit?

He doesn't make airplanes dude.

This is relatively straight forward tracking in 3 dimensional space. The one real issue is satellites don't have great accuracy for Z value (GPS). But that is a technical problem to be solved which should rely on aircraft sensors actively broadcasting altitude vs relying on radar.

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Because Elon doesn't have any history of identifying a market he feels he can disrupt and create a product/business ----

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Some of yall are just touched with dumbassedness.

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And some of you are so drunk with "winning" that critical thought has gone out the window as long as its your side winning. This is the same crap that has been criticized on this board when the democrats are in power with conflict of interest.

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AlaskanAg99 said:

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clw04 said:

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AlaskanAg99 said:

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clw04 said:

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AlaskanAg99 said:

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So how on Earth do you think he's going to leverage ATC somehow to his benefit?

He doesn't make airplanes dude.

This is relatively straight forward tracking in 3 dimensional space. The one real issue is satellites don't have great accuracy for Z value (GPS). But that is a technical problem to be solved which should rely on aircraft sensors actively broadcasting altitude vs relying on radar.

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Because Elon doesn't have any history of identifying a market he feels he can disrupt and create a product/business ----

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Some of yall are just touched with dumbassedness.

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And some of you are so drunk with "winning" that critical thought has gone out the window as long as its your side winning. This is the same crap that has been criticized on this board when the democrats are in power with conflict of interest.

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What conflict of interest? What business of his does this impact? He said he was going to assign some of his engineers to work on this issue.

Youre just clutching those pearls so tight rational thought escapes you. Just imagine if the dems, who were in charge 12 of the last 16 years. Got off their dumb asses and worked for positive change vs disrupting society on pet projects.

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clw04 said:

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AlaskanAg99 said:

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clw04 said:

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AlaskanAg99 said:

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clw04 said:

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AlaskanAg99 said:

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So how on Earth do you think he's going to leverage ATC somehow to his benefit?

He doesn't make airplanes dude.

This is relatively straight forward tracking in 3 dimensional space. The one real issue is satellites don't have great accuracy for Z value (GPS). But that is a technical problem to be solved which should rely on aircraft sensors actively broadcasting altitude vs relying on radar.

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Because Elon doesn't have any history of identifying a market he feels he can disrupt and create a product/business ----

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Some of yall are just touched with dumbassedness.

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And some of you are so drunk with "winning" that critical thought has gone out the window as long as its your side winning. This is the same crap that has been criticized on this board when the democrats are in power with conflict of interest.

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What conflict of interest? What business of his does this impact? He said he was going to assign some of his engineers to work on this issue.

Youre just clutching those pearls so tight rational thought escapes you. Just imagine if the dems, who were in charge 12 of the last 16 years. Got off their dumb asses and worked for positive change vs disrupting society on pet projects.

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How does it work any other way - SpaceX engineers come in and write requirements and then put it out for bid for other contractors to deliver a product that looks like SpaceX User interfaces since the requirements likely are based on them? We will see where all this goes, but the level of insight that they have into business strategies and such across all of government is ripe for issues with the conflict of interest protection being "trust us". Having Elon not involved in "day-to-day" operations doesn't relieve from conflict of interest - no one will know until years down the road for items like this.

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clw04 said:

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🚨 JUST IN: Elon Musk is deploying Space X engineers to fix the antiquated air traffic control systems in the United States, calling it a “non-partisan matter”

Inevitably though, leftists with EDS will attempt to argue the team who can literally CATCH ROCKETS IN MID AIR with… pic.twitter.com/d6aieqLtJv

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 17, 2025

SpaceX engineers are going to look in-depth to Air Traffic Control Systems and get interviews for what works well and what doesn't from users.

What are they going to do with this information and are they going to share it with every company that would like to bid on future work or is Elon going to bid on this with his engineers?

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clw04 said:

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AlaskanAg99 said:

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So how on Earth do you think he's going to leverage ATC somehow to his benefit?

He doesn't make airplanes dude.

This is relatively straight forward tracking in 3 dimensional space. The one real issue is satellites don't have great accuracy for Z value (GPS). But that is a technical problem to be solved which should rely on aircraft sensors actively broadcasting altitude vs relying on radar.

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Because Elon doesn't have any history of identifying a market he feels he can disrupt and create a product/business ----

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clw04 said:

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🚨 JUST IN: Elon Musk is deploying Space X engineers to fix the antiquated air traffic control systems in the United States, calling it a “non-partisan matter”

Inevitably though, leftists with EDS will attempt to argue the team who can literally CATCH ROCKETS IN MID AIR with… pic.twitter.com/d6aieqLtJv

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 17, 2025

SpaceX engineers are going to look in-depth to Air Traffic Control Systems and get interviews for what works well and what doesn't from users.

What are they going to do with this information and are they going to share it with every company that would like to bid on future work or is Elon going to bid on this with his engineers?

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