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Re:Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot” by fogof on Friday August 20, 2021 @02:24AM (#28243229)
> First, no one denies that reusability is still not profitable. This includes Musk himself and heads of all the other rocket companies who have all made it clear they aren't pursing it because these is simply no business case for it.

What? Here is "Musk himself" saying in a tweet that Falcon 9 only needs to be reusable 3 times to make sense economically.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1295883862380294144?s=20

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Re:Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot” by mrjangles on Friday August 27, 2021 @08:18PM (#28334392)
Oh ok, thanks for that. The last I had heard was that it would take 10 launches to break even. It seems spaceX has been working very hard making refurbishing the boosters cheaper and cheaper over the last few years.
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