← Back to context Comment by ceejayoz 1 day ago > Economic viability is not the same goal.They're close enough, functionally. 7 comments ceejayoz Reply bumby 1 day ago Not in scientific edge domains. Eg: quantum computing is shown to be scientifically feasible right now, but nowhere close to having economic viability in a business sense. Same with fusion etc etc ceejayoz 1 day ago > Not in scientific edge domains.That's JWST-style stuff, not SpaceX at this point. bumby 1 day ago That’s kinda the point.40 years ago it was questionable whether it was technically possible. It was “JWST-stuff”. The forerunners of ULA showed it was feasible.20 years ago it was questionable whether it was economically viable. SpaceX changed that.Your previous statement was too vague to make the distinction and implied Spacex did both, while ignoring the contributions of the previous group. 4 replies →
bumby 1 day ago Not in scientific edge domains. Eg: quantum computing is shown to be scientifically feasible right now, but nowhere close to having economic viability in a business sense. Same with fusion etc etc ceejayoz 1 day ago > Not in scientific edge domains.That's JWST-style stuff, not SpaceX at this point. bumby 1 day ago That’s kinda the point.40 years ago it was questionable whether it was technically possible. It was “JWST-stuff”. The forerunners of ULA showed it was feasible.20 years ago it was questionable whether it was economically viable. SpaceX changed that.Your previous statement was too vague to make the distinction and implied Spacex did both, while ignoring the contributions of the previous group. 4 replies →
ceejayoz 1 day ago > Not in scientific edge domains.That's JWST-style stuff, not SpaceX at this point. bumby 1 day ago That’s kinda the point.40 years ago it was questionable whether it was technically possible. It was “JWST-stuff”. The forerunners of ULA showed it was feasible.20 years ago it was questionable whether it was economically viable. SpaceX changed that.Your previous statement was too vague to make the distinction and implied Spacex did both, while ignoring the contributions of the previous group. 4 replies →
bumby 1 day ago That’s kinda the point.40 years ago it was questionable whether it was technically possible. It was “JWST-stuff”. The forerunners of ULA showed it was feasible.20 years ago it was questionable whether it was economically viable. SpaceX changed that.Your previous statement was too vague to make the distinction and implied Spacex did both, while ignoring the contributions of the previous group. 4 replies →
Not in scientific edge domains. Eg: quantum computing is shown to be scientifically feasible right now, but nowhere close to having economic viability in a business sense. Same with fusion etc etc
> Not in scientific edge domains.
That's JWST-style stuff, not SpaceX at this point.
That’s kinda the point.
40 years ago it was questionable whether it was technically possible. It was “JWST-stuff”. The forerunners of ULA showed it was feasible.
20 years ago it was questionable whether it was economically viable. SpaceX changed that.
Your previous statement was too vague to make the distinction and implied Spacex did both, while ignoring the contributions of the previous group.
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