{"id":23214,"date":"2026-10-16T21:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T21:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23214"},"modified":"2026-10-16T21:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T21:22:13","slug":"elon-musk-controls-space-thats-a-problem-josh-tyrangiel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23214","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Controls Space. That\u2019s a Problem. \u2014 Josh Tyrangiel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elon Musk owns space. Most things being put into space are being put there by Musk&#8217;s SpaceX. The United States country and government are dependent upon Musk to get into space and Europe is dependent on Musk for its space-facilitated defense. It&#8217;s great to have such a fantastic company in the US, but Musk controls too much and has too much power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The US military may be heading to a point where if it needs a new weapon, or much more of a current one, and it is in the middle of a war, one business owner can say no for whatever reason and greatly weaken America&#8217;s ability to fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Elon Musk Controls Space. That\u2019s a Problem. \u2014 Josh Tyrangiel\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fFR4jeRGpEE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk owns space. Most things being put into space are being put there by Musk&#8217;s SpaceX. The United States country and government are dependent upon Musk to get into space and Europe is dependent on Musk for its space-facilitated defense. It&#8217;s great to have such a fantastic company in the US, but Musk controls too much and has too much power. <\/p>\n<p>The US military may be heading to a point where if it needs a new weapon, or much more of a current one, and it is in the middle of a war, one business owner can say no for whatever reason and greatly weaken America&#8217;s ability to fight. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fFR4jeRGpEE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[798,1598,797,259,955,1952,1565,954,1005,1055],"class_list":["post-23214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-business","tag-elon-musk","tag-industry","tag-military","tag-nasa","tag-rockets","tag-satellite","tag-space","tag-technology","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23215,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23214\/revisions\/23215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}