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Making things cheap is just as important as inventing things. Nobody would care about computers if they still cost $10m and took up a whole room.
by aianus 9y ago
Making things cheap is just as important as inventing things. Nobody would care about computers if they still cost $10m and took up a whole room.
- aswanson 9y agoWell, most folk here still would. Point valid, nonetheless.
- throwaway-1209 9y agoWe're not talking that kind of price differential. A factor of 5x at most, with worse specific impulse than the Russian engines from the 90s. I get it, Elon is the second coming of Steve Jobs for many, and it is admirable that he's pursuing the fields that are hard, but he's not the second coming of Sergey Korolyov or Werner Von Braun, or even the countless others who made the space age possible.