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Seriously, how does it take 14 years to verify a design and protect it against counterfeit? SpaceX sent vehicles into space and landed them back here on earth o
by nodesocket 11y ago
Seriously, how does it take 14 years to verify a design and protect it against counterfeit? SpaceX sent vehicles into space and landed them back here on earth on a moving drone platform in the middle of the Atlantic in less time.
- maxerickson 11y ago10 years of it could just be resting on laurels. If the current design resists counterfeiting well enough, there's not much justification for making a new one yet. I'm not saying that's the explanation, just speculating.
- jdavis703 11y agoDo you want to pay more taxes to upgrade something utilitarian for purely aesthetic reasons?
- blackguardx 11y agoOr you know, the 12 years from Sputnik to Apollo 11...
- cwt137 11y agoYou have to think about all the advances that will be made in counterfeit methodologies and technologies in the next 14 years and think that whatever they approve will be outdated in 14 years.