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Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees by throwaway84742 on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @09:46AM (#16858210)
All right. “Orbital rockets that land upright”. Better now?
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Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees by DmenshunlAnlsis on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @09:56AM (#16858295)
You kinda missed the main point. Musk's business is focused entirely on improving existing, proven, old technologies.

So we’re all in agreement then, very good.

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Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees by throwaway84742 on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @10:00AM (#16858334)
It’s kind of like saying that a motorcycle is an “improved bicycle”.
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Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees by afterburner on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @03:11PM (#16861355)
It's more like saying a self-balancing bicycle is an improved bicycle.
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Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees by Gravityloss on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @04:05PM (#16861811)
There were separate technologies. Orbital rockets. Rockets with kerosene gas generator engines or balloon tanks or aluminium lithium tanks already. There were rockets that landed on their tail. These technologies were all combined into one.
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