despite the fact that I'm smarter than Elon Musk (and so are you).
I'm not so arrogant as to assume I'm smarter than a man I've never met that's done things I've never done.
I'm no blind Elon fanboy by any means, I think $TSLA is hopium-fueled nonsense and the cars themselves are kinda shit. On the other hand tho it's easy to talk big on the internet but actually building a reusable booster is a big deal and I have mad respect for Elon for pulling it off. He's basically our space program right now.
This is nonsense. NASA has been a spook toy factory and welfare program for legacy aerospace since Apollo ended. Dumb evolutionary path taken for like 30 years, basically stagnation because everything cost a billion dollars with the Shuttle. It looked fucking cool but as a vehicle to get to space it sucked total ass.
Finally someone gets rich enough to do the rocket thing, and manages it. Then leveraging mostly off the shelf control systems he makes the fucking things land themselves, instantly cutting costs of a launch by like 50%, and with increasing ROI until it finally wears out and blows up or misses the pad. It's absolutely amazing, and really is revolutionary for space. This is why SpaceX impresses me but Blue Origin and Virgin don't. SpaceX fundamentally changed the game.
If Starlink works as intended it will also be a game changer, and requires so many launches it was cost infeasible until reusable boosters.
Sounds easy, you should go do it.
I'm not so arrogant as to assume I'm smarter than a man I've never met that's done things I've never done.
I'm no blind Elon fanboy by any means, I think $TSLA is hopium-fueled nonsense and the cars themselves are kinda shit. On the other hand tho it's easy to talk big on the internet but actually building a reusable booster is a big deal and I have mad respect for Elon for pulling it off. He's basically our space program right now.
This is nonsense. NASA has been a spook toy factory and welfare program for legacy aerospace since Apollo ended. Dumb evolutionary path taken for like 30 years, basically stagnation because everything cost a billion dollars with the Shuttle. It looked fucking cool but as a vehicle to get to space it sucked total ass.
Finally someone gets rich enough to do the rocket thing, and manages it. Then leveraging mostly off the shelf control systems he makes the fucking things land themselves, instantly cutting costs of a launch by like 50%, and with increasing ROI until it finally wears out and blows up or misses the pad. It's absolutely amazing, and really is revolutionary for space. This is why SpaceX impresses me but Blue Origin and Virgin don't. SpaceX fundamentally changed the game.
If Starlink works as intended it will also be a game changer, and requires so many launches it was cost infeasible until reusable boosters.