Re:Elon Musk’s Space Dream Almost Killed Tesla
by mozumder on Friday May 15, 2015 @11:30AM
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> Now, someone with that vision has stepped up to the plate and is trying to make great things happen.
Space-X is creating large space stations with artificial gravity?
Going to Mars is a first step. It wouldn't surprise me if large space stations with artificial gravity come about someday either - and come about much sooner than they otherwise would have if Musk hadn't decided to pursue his goal of making humans a multiplanet species.
Anyway, perhaps I could have worded things differently as I didn't mean to imply he had the exact same visions as those from the 70's, just that he decided to go after grand ideas now that the government decided it isn't worth their money.
Or how about, because he picked up the ball the government dropped.
Like you said NASA were throwing around all sorts of ideas in the 70's, and the government didn't have the vision to fund them.
Now, someone with that vision has stepped up to the plate and is trying to make great things happen.