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I suspect Musk was perhaps more using it as a tool to beat competitors for the US govt's dollar like Boeing with (who have probably enjoyed a good run of charging what they more or less what they like). And he probably does believe it on one level - after all, his predecessors seem quite happy to let millions of dollars of rocketry fall into the sea rather than try and scoop it up and reuse it.
torqueless":34uq5qzg said:And, I know you are just using an analogy, greencat, but I don't buy the Musk story for a second: Are we really supposed to believe that the federal Usanian govt.- who on the face of it haven't been arsed to send a man to the mooon since 1974- are now out-resourced and out-initiatived by one of their own private citizens? That comes across as (suspiciously) great PR for the ideology of 'not taxing rich people'.
I suspect Musk was perhaps more using it as a tool to beat competitors for the US govt's dollar like Boeing with (who have probably enjoyed a good run of charging what they more or less what they like). And he probably does believe it on one level - after all, his predecessors seem quite happy to let millions of dollars of rocketry fall into the sea rather than try and scoop it up and reuse it.