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You know, I think if I had Bezos' money, I'd stay away from the engineering practicalities of running a company selling launches. If you want to be part of som
by kingsuper20 5y ago
You know, I think if I had Bezos' money, I'd stay away from the engineering practicalities of running a company selling launches.
If you want to be part of some off-planet future, it would be fun to spend significant money on new propulsion technologies and assume that it's all money down the drain. Admittedly, running a large lab has it's own set of problems to keep them on the straight and narrow.
No doubt, at the heart of it, a part of what drives any Bezos jealousy is simply that Musk has a lot more stage presence and star power.
- themodelplumber 5y agoBut... engineering practicalities are literally where Bezos has like ten bicep muscles... Especially if you include logistics concerns. If it's boring but scales, he is going to be in the winner pool. If it takes imagination, he's shown that his imagination is less focused than Musk's, and much more of a blowoff valve for when life gets too samey. So the big risk is that the creativity is impressive but totally inappropriate. That said, I agree it'd be nice to chase after new propulsion tech.
- kingsuper20 5y agoWe could combine the two. Bezos could spend the money on a cannon/rail gun to get raw materials into orbit.
- philwelch 5y ago> No doubt, at the heart of it, a part of what drives any Bezos jealousy is simply that Musk has a lot more stage presence and star power. I’ve seen both of them present (though only Jeff in person) and if anything I think Elon is more awkward and less smooth as a presenter. Elon is definitely more cool, but it’s not really what I’d call “stage presence”.
- kingsuper20 5y agoStage presence is a funny thing. I don't think of it as how well you speak, but how much the camera loves you.