Re:Jack Ma fell to earth and took Ant's mega IPO with him
by ygtx on Friday November 06, 2020 @01:29PM
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the soviets had a pretty successful space program back in the day...
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Re:Jack Ma fell to earth and took Ant's mega IPO with him
by mrkstu on Friday November 06, 2020 @01:54PM
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They threw the whole resources of a nation state at it to do it as well, vs the bootstrapping of one guy with about a hundred million bucks.
It takes the right guy and the right environment to make that kind of magic happen.
Re:Jack Ma fell to earth and took Ant's mega IPO with him
by sudosysgen on Friday November 06, 2020 @05:30PM
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They really didn't. The Soviet space program operated with around a third of the US Space program (about one 200th of the USSR economy in 1970), or the equivalent of, give or take, 30 billion 2020 US dollars, or around 10 times the budget of SpaceX, notwithstanding technological price deflation.
With 1970s tech and only ten times the budget, the Soviet space program certainly innovated a lot more than SpaceX did, in all fields, from computer science to basic physics, to metallurgy, to jet engines, and built more ambitious missions.