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BTW the filtered water you had in your fancy Yeti thermos at the beach and dumped out before you left was also no longer portable in pretty much the exact same way.
Don't even get me started on the toxic disaster that dumping out your warm Coke or leftover beer is!!!
Are we comfortable with sending people to Mars before Starship demonstrates a safe return and landing on Earth after landing on Mars?"we" the people are uncomfortable with lots of things, though ironically sending people to their possible death is not one of them.
Regulatory cadence needs to change to make this happen. Or start a new company in another country.
It's frustrating to see that every time a date for a Mars journey is announced dozens of people show up with countless reasons not to do it.
https://twitter.com/Harry__Stranger/status/1832595276210786792
I would debate both
Are we comfortable with sending people to Mars before Starship demonstrates a safe return and landing on Earth after landing on Mars?Who is "we"? There are people who believe that humanity on Earth is under several near-term existential threats. These people want to establish a self-sustaining colony on Mars as a long-shot insurance policy to maintain humanity. I doubt that they are "comfortable" with risking lives to shorten the time needed, but they may be less comfortable with not doing so.
It was how JB's appearance in the video was characterized upthread. The role is obviously a lot more demanding than that.Ok, so in your mind you think that you have to be a "tech nerd" to lead a rocket company??Having patents and secrets is one thing. (And is natural and ok)I'll ask you this: If he's the tech nerd you think he is, and if he's also as rich as Bezos and in full control, why does BO behave the way it does? The secrecy, the patents, the pad troll lawsuit? The "trust Bob Smith" passive attitude..
Because those same behaviors (which to be clear, I think are bad and at times anti-competitive), helped make Amazon one of the most successful businesses on Earth. Why wouldn't Bezos keep doing that, when it's worked for him before?
And they are also the behaviours that got F1 engines recovered from the seabed
Exactly. Except that the achievement has nothing to do with making BO successful. Nobody doubts that he likes technology. But his focus is wrong for leading a rocket company.
Secrecy and patents are not unusual in any business, which includes spaceflight. SpaceX has 84 granted patents, and its own share of secrets.
And as for your conclusion that his focus is wrong... he's doing it anyway.
Conducting your company in a secretive way is quite another, and that's the difference. Same with troll patents and idiotic lawsuits. Not the way of the tech nerd.
