| ▲ | tonyhart7 2 hours ago | |
I know that SpaceX have tremendous potential, the problem is that we account future potential that maybe not happening in 20 - 50 years | ||
| ▲ | gunapologist99 2 hours ago | parent [-] | |
> future potential Starlink doesn't qualify? Because that's a practically unbelievable track record. It's easy to say it's obvious, but it was only obvious in hindsight (or perhaps to Elon, but I think the reason that it was successful was actually more about him just being relentless) I'm not an Elon acolyte, but as with his other enterprises (SpaceX, Tesla), he succeeded where others (Irridium etc) repeatedly failed. It's really hard to argue that he got lucky when he keeps pulling these really extremely high capex and hard-tech and business successes off so cleanly, especially when you see the entrenched opposition (govt, politics, competitors) that's been arrayed against him. | ||