Re:SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round
by ben_w on Friday April 13, 2018 @05:49AM
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I don’t trust to common knowledge.
Consider how many people thought “nobody could possibly vote for Trump”? Or pretty much any opinion on Brexit, for or against.
Then there’s the question of dead man switches starting, instead of responding to, a nuclear war. Only the people in charge of them even know for sure they exist, so how can we even estimate the chances they’ll be triggered by something short of an attack on their host nations?
Re:SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round
by icc97 on Friday April 13, 2018 @06:25AM
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Fair enough.
The world has managed to not blow itself up for 60 years, we can speculate on whether that will hold long enough to build a self-sustaining base on Mars.
Consider how many people thought “nobody could possibly vote for Trump”? Or pretty much any opinion on Brexit, for or against.
Then there’s the question of dead man switches starting, instead of responding to, a nuclear war. Only the people in charge of them even know for sure they exist, so how can we even estimate the chances they’ll be triggered by something short of an attack on their host nations?