Re: Good Luck, Elon and Falcon

On 22 Dec 2005 07:50:15 -0800, in a place far, far away, "Ed Kyle"
<edkyle99@xxxxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:

>> I repeat, the notion that Elon spent all this money with no intent to
>> actually build working launchers is ludicrous.
>
>I agree that Mr. Musk fully intends to develop a space launch
>vehicle, and may succeed in doing so. However, Mr. Musk
>has surely considered that his enterprise has and will have
>value whether he succeeds or not.

Well, obviously one would hope that, as part of risk mitigation. I
was disputing the silly notion that it was his plan.
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