Meanwhile, "SpaceX is leading a bid to build Golden Dome with startups Anduril and Palantir, six people said"

[applegrove]

https://bsky.app/profile/jennycohn.bsky.social/post/3lnccqnge3k2q

Meanwhile, “SpaceX is leading a bid to build Golden Dome with startups Anduril and Palantir, six people said” Exclusive: Musk's SpaceX is frontrunner to build Trump's Golden Dome missile shield - https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/musks-spacex-is-frontrunner-build-trumps-golden-dome-missile-shield-2025-04-17/

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Apologies in advance, but aren't those medications I see advertised on TV?

I know it’s a serious thread, but I’m trying to get sleepy by posting.

Sorry for the thread derailment.

Keep up the good work, and good morning.

[applegrove]

2. I know. I hate new words because I'm dyslexic and it

takes time till I've heard a new word pronounced a few times before I know how to pronounce it. There must be a lot of marketing research behind such new words. Hopefully we'll never hear from these two again. LOL!

[RockRaven]

3. I do not presume to speak for the dead, but from my limited knowledge of

JRR Tolkien's publicly documented thoughts, I am reasonably certain he would loathe these turds who name their companies after fictional objects from his writings (for the unaware, in this instance both Palantir and Anduril), specifically because of the motives and actions of said turds -- even apart from their appropriation of his invented language.

[Aviation Pro]

4. Yeah, where the hell is Smaug

When you need him since Motherfucker Krasnov seems to have Dragon sickness.

[Aviation Pro]

5. Why didn't they call it

The vibranium or adamentium dome since that fits their juvenile LARP and cosplay outlook.

[applegrove]

6. I'm too old to know this stuff.

[alarimer]

7. When are they creating the ork army?

And who is Sauron in this scenario?

[Efilroft Sul]

9. Pretty sure Musk is trying to breed them on his own.

Plot twist: Space Orcs.

[GoCubsGo]

8. More of our tax dollars to be wasted on Trump's bullshit.

What good is a fucking "golden dome" going to do, when you have already handed over our state secrets to our biggest enemies? This is just another means of funneling our money into the pockets of rich assholes like Musk, and whoever is running those other fake companies.

[jmowreader]

10. I read the article. Holy shit.

Trump's Golden Dome is a revitalization of the old Strategic Defense Initiative, aka "Star Wars," system Reagan bankrupted the country with. (One part of SDI did survive - the very good Patriot air defense system was originally an SDI technology.) The best part is Musk plans to run it on a subscription model rather than just selling the damned thing to the government.

If we had Truth in Advertising laws DOGE would be named Department of Slashing the Government So They Can Give More Money to Me.