none-ya-mouse t1_jd1ue01 wrote on March 21, 2023 at 5:51 AM Reply to comment by Zeustitandog in 10 months after its launch by SpaceX, a $10,000 satellite made by students with off-the-shelf materials and powered by 48 Energizer AA batteries, is not only working, it's demonstrating a way to reduce space junk by lughnasadh His father owned an emerald mine. Possible it has some abusive labor practices, but unlikely to be outright slavery in 1969. His father was elected to a city council running for the anti-apartheid party, so if he was a "slave-owner", he was running against his own interests. Permalink Parent 6
none-ya-mouse t1_jd1ue01 wrote
Reply to comment by Zeustitandog in 10 months after its launch by SpaceX, a $10,000 satellite made by students with off-the-shelf materials and powered by 48 Energizer AA batteries, is not only working, it's demonstrating a way to reduce space junk by lughnasadh
His father owned an emerald mine. Possible it has some abusive labor practices, but unlikely to be outright slavery in 1969.
His father was elected to a city council running for the anti-apartheid party, so if he was a "slave-owner", he was running against his own interests.