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Re:Tesla’s new patent involves using table salt to mine lithium by eightysixfour on Friday July 16, 2021 @11:02AM (#27856974)
> But otherwise, it’s the same rocketry.

I get that Elon is a bullshitter who occasionally delivers which makes him insanely polarizing, but this feels like a bit of a ridiculous statement.

Landing the first stage of the rocket isn’t the same rocketry.

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Re:Tesla’s new patent involves using table salt to mine lithium by FireBeyond on Friday July 16, 2021 @12:29PM (#27857973)
You left out the first part, "doing innovative things that ULA never had the incentive to do", i.e. land/re-use the rocket.
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Re:Tesla’s new patent involves using table salt to mine lithium by eightysixfour on Friday July 16, 2021 @02:54PM (#27859839)
You say they never had the incentive to innovate, and then follow up with but otherwise it is the same rocketry. Those statements are contradictory - either there was market incentive for cheaper, reusable rockets, or there wasn't. ULA couldn't even imagine a world where SpaceX was successful at what they've done, which is a different type of rocketry, and as a result, SpaceX isn't doing "the same rocketry."
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