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A comment on Elon Musk: The Architect of Tomorrow.

Re:Elon Musk: The Architect of Tomorrow by blindm on Thursday December 24, 2020 @12:34PM (#25529496)
Musk is a billionaire doing billionaire things. Of course he's doing rocketry (just like Bezos) and of course he's playing Henry Ford doing car manufacturing. That's expected and not a surprise and the article expects us to be surprised by this.
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Re:Elon Musk: The Architect of Tomorrow by 1958325146 on Thursday December 24, 2020 @12:37PM (#25529532)
If you expected most billionaires to get into rocketry, you would expect there to be hundreds or thousands of rocket companies given the more than 2000 billionaires around.
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Re:Elon Musk: The Architect of Tomorrow by Rebelgecko on Thursday December 24, 2020 @04:02PM (#25531379)
Not all of the NewSpace billionaires are working on launch vehicles (eg Bigelow). But probably several percent of billionaires in the US have space companies
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Re:Elon Musk: The Architect of Tomorrow by 7e on Thursday December 24, 2020 @03:21PM (#25531066)
Most billionaires don't get into rocketry, but exceptional wealth is a requirement. Other billionaires do other ego trips.
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Re:Elon Musk: The Architect of Tomorrow by nullsense on Thursday December 24, 2020 @01:02PM (#25529768)
Yes, because that's what all billionaires do. Every single last one of them. Pretty pedestrian stuff.
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Re:Elon Musk: The Architect of Tomorrow by sto_hristo on Thursday December 24, 2020 @01:18PM (#25529901)
Bezos and the others copy him.
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