Re:Elon Musk’s Ideas About Transportation are Boring
by maxxxxx on Saturday December 16, 2017 @01:15PM
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I just don't think that anything SpaceX or Tesla have done is science fiction material the way you wrote. They are really good at commercializing and streamlining existing ideas and they have the courage to do something first.
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Re:Elon Musk’s Ideas About Transportation are Boring
by jryle70 on Saturday December 16, 2017 @05:05PM
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Why mentioning sci-fi can be a bit hyperbole, the fact is that rocket reusability was considered a pipe dream a decade ago. Nobody thought it could be done commercially. SpaceX sticked with it and prevailed in the face of all skepticism. It's just not "commercializing" and "streamlining" as you trivially dismissed
Re:Elon Musk’s Ideas About Transportation are Boring
by njarboe on Sunday December 17, 2017 @01:02PM
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Science fiction is part of the spectrum of:
Idea --> Actually Economically Viable Product. Your "existing ideas" is not very different from science fiction compared to the amount of work needed to get to viable product from existing ideas.