Re:Elon Musk Gambled Tesla to Save SolarCity
by tigershark on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @01:00AM
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I think that Musk was the first and the only one to propose, build and continuously operate reusable rockets capable of autonomously landing at a fraction of the price per launch of whatever existed before.
And the only one that made possible a safe landing of three rockets in the same mission with Falcon Heavy.
Do you have any proof that anyone else did the same before him?
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Re:Elon Musk Gambled Tesla to Save SolarCity
by navigatesol on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @07:54AM
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>Do you have any proof that anyone else did the same before him?
That anyone proposed resuable rockets before Musk? Use Google. You're naive if you think otherwise.
>at a fraction of the price per launch of whatever existed before.
There's no evidence that these resuable rockets are a "fraction" of the cost to re-launch. In fact, the cost is likely the reason that no one else has done it; it doesn't make economic sense, not because it's impossible.