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That's where I was going. There's a bias in these discussions that overlooks a century of contributions (previous poster referred to them as perfection). SpaceX
by demondemidi 3y ago
That's where I was going. There's a bias in these discussions that overlooks a century of contributions (previous poster referred to them as perfection). SpaceX didn't invent space travel from square one, they are optimizing the last 10%: larger size, and better re-usability. Elevating them to gods pisses in the face of the century of previous experts who learned the hard way because there was no NASA before them.
- CydeWeys 3y agoI don't think anyone is elevating them to gods, and also, it's true that no one was seriously working on cheap reusability until SpaceX did it. Yeah sure SpaceX didn't invent orbital rockets (no one claimed they did!), but they did in fact invent commercially viable reusable rockets, and that's a big deal.