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>- JPL would never get to money to do such a project for many reasons - JPL would never put Shotwell as her focus was business development (let alone Musk) -
by asdff 2mo ago
>- JPL would never get to money to do such a project for many reasons
- JPL would never put Shotwell as her focus was business development (let alone Musk)
- Shotwell wouldn't have had the vision that Musk has (as she herself said, her focus when talking to Musk was making sure that the rocket being developed was something she could sell)
- JPL wouldn't ever have run the project the way SpaceX had because they have process around how to do things
- JPL wouldn't ever have hired the same group of engineers because of the way the do hiring.
- JPL couldn't ever run procurement and supplier relation the way SpaceX did because of government regulations about contracting
You are right on all this and I am not denying it, but the facts remain that doing things at cost is cheaper than doing things for profit. That is what I am getting at. People are getting hung up on specifics that frankly don't really matter to the underlying point that profitability is a cost center.
- panick21_ 2mo agoYour point is so fucking pointless, meaningless and pedantic. People are not 'hung up' on it. Its just an irrelevant fucking point that has no practical meaning and you keep repeating it as if it had any relevance what so ever.
- inemesitaffia 2mo agoIt's very relevant. It took over 10 years for anyone to land of an orbital launcher after it had been demonstrated. i.e even though it had been proven it was possible, it was still hard to do
- asdff 2mo agoThere has been plenty of ink spilled on the inherent waste of the private contractor model that our government relies upon. These aren't unique ideas. They are pretty well accepted.