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SpaceX doesn't really do any sort of frontier research. They do technology. They are taking concepts that have been done in the past and doing them more economi
by LarsDu88 2y ago
SpaceX doesn't really do any sort of frontier research. They do technology. They are taking concepts that have been done in the past and doing them more economically.
They have pushed the state-of-the art with projects like Raptor-2, but doing fundamental research and simply doing engineering are different things.
- _yb2s 2y agoSkunk works also did technology
- WalterBright 2y agoThe radar-invisible shapes came from a Soviet research paper!
- inglor_cz 2y agoThe C programming language was a successor of other programming languages, too. Not a completely new entity, the first programming language of the world. Innovations that aren't on the frontier of knowledge, but have great potential for mass deployment, are precisely those that tend to have the biggest impact on humanity as such.