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A comment on SpaceX’s entry into $70 billion U.S. launch market draws Lockheed jab.

Re:SpaceX’s entry into $70 billion U.S. launch market draws ... by pbateman on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @09:30AM (#4966045)
“You can thrift on cost. You can take cost out of a rocket. But I will guarantee you, in my experience, when you start pulling a lot of costs out of a rocket, your quality and your probability of success in delivering a payload to orbit diminishes.’’

This sounds similar to the cry of every company that is about to be painfully disrupted.

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Re:SpaceX’s entry into $70 billion U.S. launch market draws ... by confluence on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @06:20AM (#4968880)
This is why assume-worst-case/at the edge/corner case thinking is particularly useful.

> OK guys let's invert our thinking and stop joking around for a moment. Let's say SpaceX is going to destroy us. Now what do we do?

Being able to think like that should somewhat immunize people against disruption.

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