Elon Musk’s plan to build one Starship a week and settle Mars

Re:Elon Musk’s plan to build one Starship a week and settle ... by dexen on Thursday March 05, 2020 @10:18AM (#22494197)

>They designed and built a custom welding machine _and_ a custom x-ray machine for building tank domes in four weeks?

That's feasible due to the requirements being narrow and specific, and also well understood by a team close to the team building those machines.

Contrast that with expensive & slow-to-build machines available on the general market, where the requirements are broad, under-specified, and always shifting.

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Re:Elon Musk’s plan to build one Starship a week and settle ... by TeMPOraL on Thursday March 05, 2020 @12:45PM (#22495970)

Perhaps it's a demonstration that the market should have more tools as composable building blocks, rather than turn-key solutions.

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Re:Elon Musk’s plan to build one Starship a week and settle ... by dexen on Thursday March 05, 2020 @02:18PM (#22497029)

>building blocks

Yeah, we seem to have strayed a bit too much towards the turn-key end of the spectrum.

IMO both have their rightful place on an open market. The problem with managing building from blocks is that it requires innovation for end results, and, as the saying goes, "Innovation is hard to schedule" (with apologies to Dan Fylstra).

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