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I’m pretty sure Elon figured out how to land rockets vertically after finding Young Sheldon’s notes with the correct formulas. I think there was a 30 minute documentary covering that 2 or 3 years ago.As others have said - and you have yourself noted with the DC-X comment - the lineage is there back in the 60s, if not the execution.
An explanation is Philip Bono SASSTO 1967 leading to Delta Clipper DC-X 1991 then to Carmack Armadillo, Blue Origin new Shepard etc. Even the spiral programmatic aspects and COTS aspects are there in DC-X.
You could say that the only real change that SpaceX made was to ditch the cross-range criteria for one-orbit-only reland from polar spysat insertion, which was what crippled both the Shuttle and DC-X and is a military-driven desirable feature (I would argue, not a true 'need'). Plus of course the non-trivial matter of relatively assured funding (at least in comparison with NASA) and the technology base (design & mfg) having greatly matured in the interim.
(On a side note I don't think we've ever really gotten the full inside account on relationships in both directions between Carmack Armadillo and Musk SpaceX. Many things were very openly discussed, but not all, at least that is my suspicion.)
Nice to see you coming out of that stuffed shirt shell a bit and allowing your inner party animal a breath of fresh air; the bar jokes are a nice recent touch. If I recall correctly, you’ve even been tossing in a meme or two as well. There’s hope for you yet.Understanding why Growth Companies have a higher P/E (Share Price divided by Earnings per Share)
A man walks into a unique gadget store and sees a money printing machine on sale for $20.
The store owner tells the customer that the machine prints a $1 bill once per year.
Not bad thinks the customer . . . ."that's a 5% return with a 20 year payback".
The customer then sees a second money printing machine but this one is priced at $100.
The customer asks the store owner, "What does this $100 machine print"?
The store owner responds, "it will print $1 today"
The customer is confused, Why is it priced at $100, I can just buy the $20 machine for that $1"?
"oh" said the store owner, "you didn't let me finish, . . it prints $1 today, $2 next year, $3 the year following and a dollar more in each successive year".
I was going to use a pizza analogy but it didn't seem to work (I know you like things explained with pizza). I will save the pizza for my stock split meme.Nice to see you coming out of that stuffed shirt shell a bit and allowing your inner party animal a breath of fresh air; the bar jokes are a nice recent touch. If I recall correctly, you’ve even been tossing in a meme or two as well. There’s hope for you yet.
All right, let’s go with that for a second. What exactly has happened that makes it a complete cluster? I haven’t seen anything other than a lot of hand waving and blustering. Indeed, I’d say some interesting facts are coming to light about the Twitter board, employees and company secrets.Actually the complete opposite, some of us don't think Twitter has anything to do with saving humanity and it's a complete pointless distraction away from the mission. Sorry but not every Elon move is genius and this one is obviously a complete cluster.
I do like pizza, but feel free to use chicken wings, cookies, chocolate covered pretzels, beer nuts or cats as illustrative points.I was going to use a pizza analogy but it didn't seem to work (I know you like things explained with pizza). I will save the pizza for my stock split meme.
Mmm…catsI do like pizza, but feel free to use chicken wings, cookies, chocolate covered pretzels, beer nuts or cats as illustrative points.
speaking of cats ... that lovely avatar has been hanging around a long time now ... what will it take to update new ATH?... I miss the dog that showed up for a brief stintI do like pizza, but feel free to use chicken wings, cookies, chocolate covered pretzels, beer nuts or cats as illustrative points.
Fried or boiled?Mmm…cats
As I've said before I don't care about Twitter and don't think it's important so his involvement is a distraction to the actual mission. I don't think anyone would claim this is exactly a smooth transaction whatever the outcome, hence a cluster.All right, let’s go with that for a second. What exactly has happened that makes it a complete cluster? I haven’t seen anything other than a lot of hand waving and blustering. Indeed, I’d say some interesting facts are coming to light about the Twitter board, employees and company secrets.
You know there are other islands available, just saying.No regrets… I bought the dip
Last day before heading to the Hamptons…. See you there
We actually need to produce millions of EVs a year to simply cut out 1 million bpd of oil. Fuel efficiency and economic growth matter far more (sadly) at this time. Most folks use 10 million EVs to reduce consumption of 1 million bpd (we use 75 if my memory is correct). Anyway, the point being we need ever EV made and the addressable market is simply gigantic. So good on Ford, VW, GM, and all the other old evil OEMs for every EV they can pump out. It will take several years of global EV production to eliminate just the Russian portion of production that is exported. Lots of good discussion on this in the Ukraine war thread.Some of us believe it already happened. 2019 could hold as the oil demand peak.
Automotive is scaled and the path is clear, that's far more important than maintaining gross margins at these nosebleed levels.In someway fundamentally everything is fine and dandy at Tesla, but there is always something to worry ,my biggest worry is since Tesla increase prices by a lot over last year but in recession like environment prices may need to come down a little on face of increasing supply from Berlin and Austin. But on other end, even if margin comes down a little and volume rise quickly overall profit will rise significantly. Moreover Tesla has so many program at various stage to lower production cost and Tesla operates in china where EV competition is intense and doing there.
The primary item you should be focused on is batteries. If Tesla can source battery materials and produce them at the scale promised then they will succeed greatly. In two to three years you are going to start seeing this battery supply limitation play out in full scale across all other EV manufacturers. The EV market is growing to the extent that whatever automaker can produce a semi desirable EV will have little to worry about on the demand side.In someway fundamentally everything is fine and dandy at Tesla, but there is always something to worry ,my biggest worry is since Tesla increase prices by a lot over last year but in recession like environment prices may need to come down a little on face of increasing supply from Berlin and Austin. But on other end, even if margin comes down a little and volume rise quickly overall profit will rise significantly. Moreover Tesla has so many program at various stage to lower production cost and Tesla operates in china where EV competition is intense and doing there.
UPS trimmed it's fuel use by something like 30% in the last 10 years. And that's without EVs.We actually need to produce millions of EVs a year to simply cut out 1 million bpd of oil. Fuel efficiency and economic growth matter far more (sadly) at this time. Most folks use 10 million EVs to reduce consumption of 1 million bpd (we use 75 if my memory is correct). Anyway, the point being we need ever EV made and the addressable market is simply gigantic. So good on Ford, VW, GM, and all the other old evil OEMs for every EV they can pump out. It will take several years of global EV production to eliminate just the Russian portion of production that is exported. Lots of good discussion on this in the Ukraine war thread.