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I personally really don't like Elon's completely ridiculous claims of cutting the price of something by an order of magnitude or two. Even if he could (he can'
by sgjohnson 5y ago
I personally really don't like Elon's completely ridiculous claims of cutting the price of something by an order of magnitude or two.
Even if he could (he can't), what business sense would it make? Why would you cut the prices of launches to 1% of the current ones, if you could also cut them by just 10% and supposedly have an absolutely insane margin, because you'd still get all the business.
- mulmen 5y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_elasticity_of_demand https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_elasticity_of_demand
- kashkhan 5y agofull reusability is the holy grail. It could have been achieved at the time of X-33 with a little bit of clever engineering. There is usually 1-2 order of magnitude cost difference between vehicle price and the gas in the tank.
- mr_toad 5y agoAll the claims I’ve seen are about reducing the cost. That doesn’t mean the price will drop by the same amount.