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I hope the war between Musk and Bezos eventually gets adopted into a poorly conceived movie or TV mini series.
by baron816 5y ago
I hope the war between Musk and Bezos eventually gets adopted into a poorly conceived movie or TV mini series.
- teachrdan 5y agoI think Hollywood already made the Musk vs. Bezos movie: "Alien vs. Predator"
- peter303 5y agoOr Dumb and Dumber
- mrinterweb 5y agoAs long as the final battle takes place on Mars, I'd watch that.
- dylan604 5y agoYou're giving Bezos a lot of credit on actually being able to get there.
- manquer 5y agoPerhaps he can take out of page of Netflix using AWS and use spaceX to get there. However going by how projects like Amazon Fire went, they are likely to exit the space once they no longer make headway they want
- panick21 5y agoIts mostly a Musk trying to do things and Bezos trying to stop him. A war would consider them attacking each other. I have not seen a single lawsuit or complaint filed by SpaceX against BlueOrigin or Amazon. The certainty point out in their defense that Amazon is full of shit, but to my knowledge they have not issued complaints about Kupiter.
- modeless 5y agoSpaceX actually did file a lawsuit against the Air Force for awarding contracts to ULA which is using Blue Origin's engines. And lost. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-spacex-lawsuit/musks-spacex-sues-u-s-air-force-over-rocket-building-contracts-filings-idUSKCN1SS2ST https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-spacex-lawsuit/musk... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-spacex-airforce/spacex-handed-loss-in-challenge-over-air-force-contract-idUSKCN26G2MA https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-spacex-airforce/spa... To some extent this is just how the business of government contracting is done. That said, I don't think it's right and Bezos is clearly worse. I doubt we'll see any more of these lawsuits from SpaceX for two reasons. One, their technology and execution advantage has become so overwhelming that the government can no longer justify stiffing them in contracts, no matter how many nice steak dinners the competition buys for the procurement people. And two, Elon now has the ability to raise nearly unlimited money from private investors for practically anything he wants to do, and doesn't need government money as much anymore. Which ironically lets them bid lower and get more contracts.
- panick21 5y agoCheck my other comments, I am well aware of these lawsuits. That is why I specifically said: > I have not seen a single lawsuit or complaint filed by SpaceX against BlueOrigin or Amazon. I would argue SpaceX lawsuits prevented monopolistic process by NASA and Dod and allowed competition. BO profits from that and was able to compete and lost. I think these are qualitatively different from the lawsuits BO is launching.
- encryptluks2 5y agoYes, two billionaires fighting over who gets to pollute the Earth's orbit and send rich people into space for fun while destroying the environment.
- vayeate 5y agoElon's (public) motive about colonizing other planets has never been about rich people having fun. It's an existential necessity.
- encryptluks2 5y agoA necessity for who exactly?
- Armisael16 5y agoThe human species as a whole. No living human will see a self-sufficient Mars colony, so it’s rather difficult to say it’s just for the rich or whatever.
- eco 5y agoThe Pirates of Low Earth Orbit?