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Consider the following, everyone claimed reusing rockets was physically impossible. Well here we are now. Sure 'end of next year' may be impossible, but doing
by PartiallyTyped 6y ago
Consider the following, everyone claimed reusing rockets was physically impossible. Well here we are now.
Sure 'end of next year' may be impossible, but doing it at some point is not necessarily impossible given certain conditions.
Nothing to do with targets, everything to do with values. And a company is more than what it produces, it is also the patents they own and the brains they wield.
PS: I do research in ML.
- kgwgk 6y agoThe patents expire. The brains have legs. A valuation of 20 times revenue - and thousands of times earnings - is not justified by saying "a company is more than what it produces". Edit: put otherwise, how does your comment relate to the fact that Tesla was trading at 5-10% of the current price in 2019? Aren't the patents and brains the same? Why are Tesla's patents and brains worth now almost as much as those of Apple or Microsoft?
- totalZero 6y agoI don't know anyone who claimed that reusing rockets was physically impossible. The Space Shuttle SRBs were reusable. To paraphrase you, "here we were then."
- PartiallyTyped 6y agoIIRC the boosters were not reusable.
- totalZero 6y agoYou don't recall correctly. "At an altitude of approximately 45 km (24 nautical miles), the boosters separate from the orbiter/external tank, descend on parachutes, and land in the Atlantic Ocean. ... They are recovered by ships, returned to land, and refurbished for reuse." https://www.nasa.gov/returntoflight/system/system_SRB.html https://www.nasa.gov/returntoflight/system/system_SRB.html