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>Boeing needs to launch a few dozens more of test flights to gather the data needed for this kind of reasoning. This in fact is a shining vindication of Musk's
by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Boeing needs to launch a few dozens more of test flights to gather the data needed for this kind of reasoning.
This in fact is a shining vindication of Musk's "Waste metal, not time." philosophy.
Boeing is operating in the old school "Spend lots of time planning, go for a hole in one." philosophy, so if they proceed to fail they need to spend lots of more time planning and going for more hole in ones to demonstrate sufficient statistics.
SpaceX? They wasted metal instead of time and got statistics out with sheer numbers before Boeing even got a number, because the only way you get numbers is by getting numbers.
Boeing should be fired and ideally bankrupted, and everyone else needs to get with the times so they don't become the next Boeing.
- tliltocatl 2y agoOn the other hand, "waste metal" philosophy was what killed Soviet moon program. Guess sensors and telemetry are a bit more advanced today.
- Dalewyn 2y agoNo, the Soviets lost simply because we wasted more metal than they did. Consider that just the Apollo programme had twenty one (21) launches in a span of about just 8 years before Apollo 11 landed the first men on the Moon. Gemini had twelve (12) launches in a span of just 2 years, and Mercury had twenty six (26) launches in a span of just 4 years. Contrast 4 launches of N1, 6 launches of Voskhod, and 13 launches of Vostok from records we know of. If anything, Musk should waste more metal.