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What a weird sentence > Currently, most rocket companies launch, at most, about a dozen times a year. “You never get really great at something you do 10, 12 ti
by dkarapetyan 11y ago
What a weird sentence
> Currently, most rocket companies launch, at most, about a dozen times a year. “You never get really great at something you do 10, 12 times a year,” Mr. Bezos said. With a small fleet of reusable New Shepard rockets, Blue Origin could be launching dozens of times a year.
So they'd be doing the same as everyone else?
- 6581 11y ago"Dozens" is at least 24.
- dkarapetyan 11y agoI don't think that's the colloquial definition of "dozens" > plural dozens or dozen 1 : a group of 12 2 : an indefinitely large number <dozens of times>
- Vraxx 11y agoThere's an implied upper bound or they would have used a more extreme term to play it up even further. 18,000 times a year is "dozens", but you're going to say "thousands of launches per year" if you're conservative and "tens of thousands" if you're a little more daring.
- vidarh 11y agoIt is clearly implied in the quote that they will be doing much more than the others - that's what matters. Your interpretation above that they will be doing "the same" is unreasonable given the context. It's pretty reasonble then to assume "dozens" will be at the very least two dozen on the lower bound. Even if it's a guess, it's likely a far better guess than to assume they meant "others are doing too few launches, so we'll do the same number of launches"
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