this. Musk is not there to do plumbing on the raptors. he is there to dare the engineers. Musk can absorb the kind of risk that engineers can not. So Musk has to be their safety net and tell them to go kick ass.

So you think r/BlueOrigin is the internal slack channel for BO employees?

Now that you have got bashing the messenger out of your system, can you think about the comment by BO and opine on it?

Do you know the ship-building capacity of China vs the USA? You don't need the most cutting-edge stuff always. You can overwhelm the opposition with numbers. You want the gap to narrow with your adversary as soon as possible. You can then slowly innovate and move ahead. Currently, China is setup to work in 25/50/100 year planning cycle. Less said the better about US' strategic planning capability.

I think what China is going for is capability not originality. If they can accomplish everything the US can and some more, how does it matter whether the rocket was built without any help from Russia or whether it was an original design?

Taliban is not just 0.1% of society that is just ruling over Afghanistan by sheer force and brutality. There is considerable support for them. Ignoring this basic fact is why America didn't achieve its goals in that country after sinking trillions and losing thousands of soldiers.

Nothing will ever improve the situation of women in Afghanistan. Their society is not structured for that.

what has happened is we have come to accept one or two planes with 200+ ppl lost every decade or so. on a % of total person traveled it may be small. but in absolute terms, we should not tolerate it. i doubt we get same number traveling by rockets any time soon.

Ah** from McDonnell Douglas killed the Boeing folks knew.

Nothing is perfect. The issue is incompetence driven by greed. That is what folks can't digest.

If you can't launch from Florida coast, then you can't launch from anywhere in the US.

I want it to be an even 150m long. 140m is for pussies.

You joke. I bet you can write better in Hindi/Tamil/Telugu/Kannada better than those Indians who try to write in English.

So if the stockholders, who like money as you say, had not voted to give him the pay pkg, they would have avoided diluting the share count by 10% thus increasing EPS by 10%. Higher EPS is highly correlated with higher share price. So they could have made more money by stiffing Musk. But ppl holding 1.8 billion shares voted to dilute themselves because they just love Musk. ok. got it.

And to come back to your original point:

I think most shareholders would prefer at least one product actually shipped to customers as initially presented. Ffs Autonomy Day happened in 2019!!

your thinking is wrong based on the vote yesterday.

lets talk abt shareholders. if tesla/musk have done such a shitty job why did 77% vote yesterday to pay the asshat $56 billion?

Tesla opened a battery swap station in CA. There was almost no uptake by customers. so they killed the idea. For the remaining items you mentioned, the final chapter has not been written yet.

Hey he cried wolf, and a dog+wolf hybrid actually showed up. That is not totally useless.

Musk has read the Robot series by Asimov way too much. I hope he makes it a reality.

Don'y hate for what he says. Just dislike him. Because there are folks like Kochs' who keep absolutely quiet but eff over our planet. Reserve hate for folks like that.

they saw that like 90% of the payloads sent to LEO would fit within their 13T capacity for neutron

This is how one builds a rocket based on what has happened. You can't create a new market with this approach.

SS, when reuse is mastered, will be low/medium/heavy lift all combined into one vehicle.

I will give you one guess on which platform he is on.

Being rich doesn't me you should just sit and take thousands of bad-faith fud punches that not only shit on your products but spread lies about you too.

Thanks for the deets.