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> which Musk recently bragged could cost as little as $1 million per launch. Didn't realize you could brag about things that haven't happened

• ncmncm 5y ago
  And won't. I wonder if Tesla owners will ever get a refund for the self-driving feature they bought and will never work. SpaceX might be able to get to $1M marginal cost for a launch, but you can bet they will never sell launches for that.
  • randallsquared 5y ago
    > SpaceX might be able to get to $1M marginal cost for a launch, but you can bet they will never sell launches for that. So, if they mark it up by an order of magnitude for external customers, you're predicting that a Starship launch might be cheaper than a Falcon 9 launch is, today, with a capacity of a dozen times the Falcon 9?
    • ncmncm 5y ago
      Sure? Cheaper per pound is fine, but teasing with prices 10x less than you will actually charge is no more honest than charging for a self-driving feature that kills people who rely on it.
      • mannerheim 5y ago
        Prices are not the same thing as costs.
        • ncmncm 5y ago
          And goalposts are easy to move.
          • mannerheim 5y ago
            The goalpost was at cost. Price was your own invention.
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• avmich 5y ago
  "90% of talks about artificial Earth satellites were led by USA, but 100% of works were done by Russia" Bragging about something in the future is as old as the time. Or are we talking about different meaning?
• nickik 5y ago
  He didnt brag, he answered a question about what their goal was. This is simple editorializing. He didn't say 'We are awesome its so cheap'. He was asked to project and explain what they were working towards and did so.
• imtringued 5y ago
  Hyperloop tickets for $1!!!