Re:The relationship between mindset and getting old
by aianus on Sunday June 11, 2017 @05:48PM
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Making things cheap is just as important as inventing things. Nobody would care about computers if they still cost $10m and took up a whole room.
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Re:The relationship between mindset and getting old
by throwaway-1209 on Sunday June 11, 2017 @06:39PM
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We're not talking that kind of price differential. A factor of 5x at most, with worse specific impulse than the Russian engines from the 90s. I get it, Elon is the second coming of Steve Jobs for many, and it is admirable that he's pursuing the fields that are hard, but he's not the second coming of Sergey Korolyov or Werner Von Braun, or even the countless others who made the space age possible.