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As long as there's competition, it is fine. Boeing fits at least that role easily. Plus, they've built the vehicle with no drama and without purchasing Twitter
by dchichkov 2y ago
As long as there's competition, it is fine. Boeing fits at least that role easily. Plus, they've built the vehicle with no drama and without purchasing Twitter in the middle. This is worth something.
We see similar situation in automotive. Other companies do allow to keep Tesla in check, so there's less opportunity to force "Cybertrucks" onto the market as the only option.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Boeing fits at least that role No, they don’t. Starliner is a paper competitor. The money NASA sends it ensure SpaceX maintains a practical monopoly. Boeing is the “competitor” everyone wishes for. Sucking up the oxygen in the room a real competitor might need while doing absolutely nothing to contest your market share. > they've built the vehicle with no drama Late to launch, billions over budget and strands its astronauts but has a CEO you can’t remember because their planes kept falling apart is a weird way to spell “no drama.”
- dotnet00 2y agoOne of the benefits of the commercial crew program was supposed to be that NASA would just be one customer of many, thus justifying why the company takes on the risk of making a fixed price bid. Starliner does not even attempt to compete on the commercial market, it has a fixed number of Atlas V's stored away for the NASA contract, and then someone will have to cough up money to try to put it on another rocket. So, they aren't even in the market, let alone doing anything to even appear to compete.
- ben_w 2y agoThe only positive thing I can say about his purchase of Twitter was that it finally stopped me wasting time on the site. Despite Musk's… what, breakdown? Radicalisation? Temper tantrums? Whatever that is, SpaceX is still astoundingly fast at both launching stuff to orbit and also making new and better rockets than almost everyone else on the planet combined. I'd like to see the money that was given to Boeing, instead given to another space startup that might do something interesting. Spin-launch, perhaps.
- Exoristos 2y agoYou can just say "he has a few different opinions than my peer group" and leave it at that. Heck, you yourself can even form your own opinions -- it's fine -- don't look so aghast.
- ben_w 2y agoDifferent opinions is not the problem. My own opinions differ plenty from my peers. Even that the opinions are outside my Overton Window isn't itself a problem, because (as with most of my nationality) that window excludes the 2nd Amendment and yet I can be here on this American website. Problem is, quite a lot of the weird stuff looks like defections in the IPD sense.
- thinkcontext 2y agoI put spreading conspiracy theories about Dominion voting machines (this week), plots by Jews, vaccines caused Lebron James' son to pass out, Paul Pelosi's attacker was actually his gay lover, etc in a different category than "he has a few different opinions than my peer group". Something has gone terribly wrong.
- smolder 2y agoI don't think he's actually as dumb as that, he is just playing the same counter-intelligence game as other people on the right, because telling the truth isn't as advantageous for them. People buying into that stuff are morons, but useful to the republican party all the same.
- ben_w 2y agoNeither I nor thinkcontext said "dumb". What you describe is still a defection in the iterated prisoners' dilemma sense.
- Intermernet 2y agoI have a feeling that Gwynne Shotwell has basically told Elon to stay away from everyday operations. He's demonstrably unstable at this point, and SpaceX operations are too life-threatening to have Elon be more than a figure-head and financier at this point.
- ThePowerOfFuet 2y ago>Boeing [...] >no drama Come again?