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It does seem crazy wasteful but in the end they are far more cost effective than more traditional companies like Boeing. Signing off on these original programs
by svachalek 4y ago
It does seem crazy wasteful but in the end they are far more cost effective than more traditional companies like Boeing. Signing off on these original programs took incredible bravery but by now investors should be punishing companies that timidly launch once every five years.
- wongarsu 4y agoIt's the same lesson the software industry learned roughly 20 years ago: For an omniscient being the waterfall process might be the most efficient, for mere mortals it's more valuable to have a process that allows you to verify assumptions and find flaws as early in the process as possible, when it's still cheap to fix them.
- pixl97 4y agoWaste when the waste is cheap and easy recyclable. People get confused by this when they see bits of metal get blown up and fail. The cost of that metal isn't really that high at the end of the day and the bits of metal that are recovered get melted down and reused. Do you know what cannot be recycled and reused? Human effort when we spend tens of thousand of hours on something that doesn't pan out. In so many mega project we see design ideas carried on because of the sunk cost fallacy. The key to prevent this is being able to bail out as fast as possible when the idea isn't going to work, and being able to focus on what is going to work.
- philistine 4y agoThose ideas that don't pan out don't get thrown away. They're used within SLS as we speak.
- mumblemumble 4y ago"Plan to throw one away. You will, anyhow." - Fred Brooks