Comment by 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
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
> 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.
Engineers became really jaded by Shuttle and the failure o X-33. Many of them, inappropriately, started claiming it was impossible. You still hear people claiming things are impossible today that are “merely” very hard, like full reuse, getting launch costs same order of magnitude as transpacific air freight, orbital datacenters, terraforming Mars, space settlement in general, travel to other star systems, etc.
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