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Billionaire uses fake crisis to help fulfil childhood dream.
by Flankk 5y ago
Billionaire uses fake crisis to help fulfil childhood dream.
- kanwisher 5y agoYeah reducing costs of rockets by constant innovating is just his childhood dream /s Clearly he is making a large difference in making us a space faring world
- Flankk 5y agoI'm just going off what he has said in interviews. He has stated the entire goal of SpaceX is to make life multi-planetary. I didn't say it was just a childhood dream, that's what you said, sarcastically.
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- hulitu 5y agoNo. This is normal corporate speech to signal that only the board and some high level managers will get bonuses this year.
- inglor_cz 5y agoSeveral top ranking people were fired, which indicates that this is not just speech. Generally, this fits into Musk's repeated claims that the hard thing about Starship isn't to build a prototype or two, but to make a rocket factory, capable of churning hundreds of launchers a year. Raptors being the bottlenecks isn't that surprising. They have been developed fairly recently, do not contain many off-the-shelf components (if any) and given that there are ~ 30 of them on the booster alone, they should be manufactured by the hundreds too. Compared to the Raptors, the other technological learning curves that must be overcome before Starship flies regularly are much less steep. Steel welding, flight software, heat shields - all of these scale reasonably well from the (already flown) prototypes and build upon a long technological tradition.