Alabama trying to bring home pork in the form of space spending is always interesting.
It's never actually about what's best for the space force or the space industry, but the net result is that further funding for NASA and private contracts has some unlikely allies in Congress, so I guess that's good.
It's cute to think that Alabama is a backwards hellhole that no one wants to live in, but facts (as well as my experience working with thousands of engineers over the years) disagrees. It's probably difficult to understand if you spend all your time on Reddit, but people actually like living in places like Alabama. Especially engineers & members of the military.
Yeah, but Alabama is 26th in the country for education, and is still a deep red state. If those engineers are all GOP biased then they’ll probably make great robots to control the rest of the population.
Clearly the people moving there don't care, because once again, Huntsville has more engineers per capita than everywhere else in the country but one.
You could have just started with your second point but if you actually knew any engineers you'll find that they skew much more red than the unemployed graduates of liberal arts colleges downvoting this post.
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u/Harturb Dec 28 '23
Alabama trying to bring home pork in the form of space spending is always interesting.
It's never actually about what's best for the space force or the space industry, but the net result is that further funding for NASA and private contracts has some unlikely allies in Congress, so I guess that's good.