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When people are talking about SpaceX’s accomplishments, you can assume an implied “* from orbit” I guarantee you John Carmack would not say he did anything clo
by erikpukinskis 9y ago
When people are talking about SpaceX’s accomplishments, you can assume an implied “* from orbit”
I guarantee you John Carmack would not say he did anything close to what Musk did.
- Avshalom 9y agoYeah but they 'didn't do anything close' to what SpaceX (not Musk) did, 12.5 years ago. That nobody bothered to do it in the (presumably) 20 years that it was viable is probably an indication that while aesthetically cool it's probably not all that economically practical.
- no-s 9y agoi suspect the space industrial complex had built up a great deal of inefficiency, creating an economically practical exploitable opportunity for anyone with the gumption to face down the status quo. Heck, the heat shield on the dragon capsule is in the NASA database, practically free tech invented and tested in the 70's and dismissed by possibly dozens of programs except for a tiny few. SpaceX did a little appropriate tweaking and made it commercially viable and probably more suitable than everything else, despite industry groupthink...