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How can they discuss cost and dates when it sounds like they don't even have firm plans on the engine? The promise of Boom is very compelling and good luck to t
by ohitsdom 11y ago
How can they discuss cost and dates when it sounds like they don't even have firm plans on the engine? The promise of Boom is very compelling and good luck to them, but it's just a dream right now.
If it was as easy as the founder makes it sound, Boeing would already be doing it.
- nharada 11y agoI agree, this is an insanely hard problem to solve. There are dozens of companies with tons of capital and massive R&D budgets that haven't already done this, presumably because they either think it's too hard, the regulatory hurdles are too high, or the market is not ready. Why can this startup do what they can't?
- rohit89 11y ago...because they really want to do it? If there's one thing I've learnt, looking at what the big companies are doing/didn't do is a really bad metric for things like this. If this was a company started by Elon, perception of this company would have been totally different.
- learc83 11y agoThat's partially because Elon was already massively rich and was able to attract even more money because he was investing so much of his own.