Butts1234

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   by Butts1234 10y ago

   I've also reached the nesting limit, so this will be my last comment if only because the conversation is already difficult to follow. Fair point about the creation of Skunk Works. I guess I was thinking more about the SR-71 and B2 whic
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   by Butts1234 10y ago

   I think the comparison between Skunk Works and X is excellent. They're both moonshot branches of much larger companies that are meant to be free from bureaucracy. There won't be a perfect comparison, and obviously there won'
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   by Butts1234 10y ago

   They did the closest thing they could - when a project failed, they killed it and refunded money to the government. In the defense industry, this is pretty rare (the F35 project is widely criticized as a failure by almost everybody that&#x2