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competition is good, it's better than piling all the money in one place.
by cynicalreason 6y ago
competition is good, it's better than piling all the money in one place.
- kiba 6y agoIs it really competition when nobody is trying?
- wastedhours 6y agoSurely there's evidence they're both trying?
- Aeolun 6y agoEurope is trying to build a glorified cargo box. SpaceX is trying to build a starship. I’d be more enthusiastic if we had 2 attempts at a spaceship.
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoI am tired of spacex fanboys that cant tell the difference between a scientific mission for research and a commercial operation
- Aeolun 6y ago> "And this satellite that Airbus will build - I like to call it 'the first interplanetary cargo ship', because that's what it will be doing. It's designed to carry cargo between Mars and Earth," It has nothing to do with fanboy or not. I’m sure there are tons of challenges involved in making this happen, but I just don’t think a cargo satellite is fundamentally very exciting. Having a human in orbit of mars would make the whole process of retrieving rock samples orders of magnitude easier.
- rsynnott 6y ago> SpaceX is trying to build a starship No.
- Aeolun 6y agoNo? I agree that so far it has been mostly exploding cylinders, but that doesn’t really change what they’re attempting no?