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Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees by DennisP on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @08:16AM (#16857580)
The point of the landing is to drastically reduce the cost of space launch, not to impress people with a snazzy demo. With disposable rockets, 80% of the launch cost is the throwaway first stage.
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Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees by buvanshak on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @09:07AM (#16857886)
> not to impress people with a snazzy demo.

Never said it was their intention.

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