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Do you want to share some evidence that that has anything to do with the federal government's decision to choose Blue Origin? Or do you want to omit you're opin
by yinser 3y ago
Do you want to share some evidence that that has anything to do with the federal government's decision to choose Blue Origin? Or do you want to omit you're opining without any evidence?
- alistairSH 3y agoUh, SpaceX already has a contract. They weren't part of this.
- Robotbeat 3y agoExactly. So Blue Origin winning has nothing to do with Musk running his mouth.
- giarc 3y agoYou know there is no way to provide that evidence. And therefore I think it's obviously to any reasonable reader that it's an opinion.
- yinser 3y ago[flagged]
- sillysaurusx 3y agoHN values thoughtful commentary above all else: curious conversation. I suggest re-reading the guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- Jerrrry 3y ago"musk bad hur dur" really curious conversation, really thought provoking
- jacquesm 3y ago39 karma 9 months old accounts should probably not speak for HN.
- Robotbeat 3y agoBut it’s absurd because SpaceX didn’t bid for this as it’s a contract for a second lander provider, spaceX is already the first.
- ikekkdcjkfke 3y agoI thought alloy of prople were into conspiricies in us, so i doubt it had any consequence
- themagician 3y agoIt's risk mitigation. Elon Musk is an eccentric billionaire that gives no !@#$s. I'm not sure what evidence you need other than a million different headlines and his own Twitter account. SpaceX is a here today gone tomorrow kind of company, because it does whatever Elon Musk wants it to do. You don't want space exploration for an entire country (and to some extent—at least currently—the entire world) to rest on the whims of one man. The government often awards contracts to "backups". So NASA decided to sign a contract with a second eccentric billionaire. Lol. This is America.
- xp84 3y agoI thought JB was pretty much a garden-variety billionaire. Is there something that sets him apart from the median billionaire? Or is it just his position at/near the tippy-top of the list (can't be bothered to check his position today) that makes him seem eccentric?
- WalterBright 3y agoBezos is far beyond a garden-variety billionaire. About a 100 times beyond, in fact! And he did it riding his own coattails.
- margalabargala 3y agoI don't think there's anything except speculation here on both sides. People are speculating that the decision may have had something to do with Musk's behavior, without evidence (aside from the behavior they've seen from Musk- which may not have been taken into account). People are speculating that the decision to choose Blue Origin may not have been based on Blue Origin's actual launch capabilities, without evidence (aside from the lack of launches so far- though they could have capabilities NASA knows about but the public does not).
- Robotbeat 3y agoSpaceX didn’t even bid for this because it’s explicitly for a SECOND lander provider, ie like commercial crew NASA wants two providers. So it has literally nothing to do with Musk running his mouth and those insisting it does clearly don’t know what they’re talking about.