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Sorry but what does building five rockets in a quarter have to do with any of this? ("Elon Musk" is not a valid answer.) The auto factory mentioned in the artic
by hyperbovine 9y ago
Sorry but what does building five rockets in a quarter have to do with any of this? ("Elon Musk" is not a valid answer.) The auto factory mentioned in the article is set up do to 400,000 cars a year. They are completely different problems. If you've never seen it in person before, the level of automation required to mass produce automobiles is really something. Have a look at the two factory floors. There are nothing alike:
http://www.spacex.com/news/2013/09/24/production-spacex http://www.spacex.com/news/2013/09/24/production-spacex
http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/hybrid-electric/g877/take-a-look-inside-the-tesla-electric-car-factory-10087690/ http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/hybrid-electric/g877/ta...
- lutorm 9y agoThat SpaceX page is over 4 years old. That was back when "production" meant a few rockets per year. (Not that the volume is anywhere comparable even today.)
- Robotbeat 9y agoI forgive you. You missed the point, which is that the line between "laughing stock" and "industry dominance" is pretty fine when you're still in the exponential ramp-up period of something, whatever that "something" is. The production rate is clearly changing from week to week, month to month (increasing at a decent clip on a percentage basis). As long as that is happening, they're still in the ramp-up phase.