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Re:Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket is turning into a space policy d... by croes on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @02:25PM (#35617854)
Who has far bigger budgets nowadays?

>So Musk is either a better manager(getting more done with equal talent) or better at finding talent that Boeing and Blue Origin reject.

Or his choices turned out to be better out of poor luck. Survivorship bias.

Maybe would talk the same about Bezos if some engineers would have chosen Blue Origin over SpaceX or if NASA had chosen Blue Origin over SpaceX

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Re:Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket is turning into a space policy d... by panick21_ on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @11:28PM (#35636020)
BlueOrigin is spending 1-2 billion a year easly on New Glenn. That is probably as much or more then SpaceX spends on Starship. And there is really no question what the better program.

> Or his choices turned out to be better out of poor luck. Survivorship bias.

If you start out with 1000 and 1 is successful claiming survivor bias might be valid, if its a tiny number of companies this explanation doesn't really work. Specially in a field where before SpaceX most starups just outright failed with no survivors at all.

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