How Does SpaceX Move So Fast?
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Since its founding in 2002, SpaceX has achieved numerous milestones in a surprisingly short timeframe. How are SpaceX able to move so fast, and what is it that allows them to design high capability rockets so quickly?
The starship development process is unlike any other, and is mostly happening outside in the view of the public. This gives us a unique glimpse into the workings of SpaceX’s continuous prototyping, something that we normally wouldn’t be able to see.
From the company structure and culture, to the methodologies and technologies they use, SpaceX is built to move fast and it may be their most valuable tool for accelerating the future of space exploration.
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A bit of a different style of video for me, looking into a bit of how a company at the cutting edge of technology operates, hope its interesting! Back to the energy series in the next video.
I wished the general public understood this but even a lot of people who follow Space development don’t understand SpaceX’s iterative approach.
I think part of it, is just how radically different SpaceX's approach is for the aerospace industry. It was generally thought that such a complex and capital intensive industry was incompatible with iterative development. From the outside, if you aren't used to seeing things like continuous prototyping, I can see how you'd see a them all exploding and might assume SpaceX don't really know what they're doing.
Hopefully this video does a small part towards shedding light on this for a few people, since it's a very interesting methodology.
Awesome video : )
@@richb2229 Yeah, I saw another video with former nasa people and they talked about his secret is that he is able to quickly test and iterate
This is such a good video, glad it got picked up by the algorithm. I would also love to know the sources for all those quotes used is it from a book?
Another high quality, informative and entertaining video. Keep it up :)
Thanks, will do!
One of the best SpaceX videos that I’ve watched, and I’ve watched quite a lot. Oddly enough, I create software in the same manner. A lot of software companies in England still use the traditional waterfall methods, with command and control management.
Great to hear! I hoped this video would be a bit different in terms of it's focus, so I'm glad it's appreciated.
Best explanation of Space-X I have seen to date!
SPLENDID!
Wow, thanks!
This sounds a lot like how I build things in KSP.
I start out with something simple that is good enough for basic testing, make changes to improve the design and slowly build up the craft and test and optimize again and again and again until I find something that works really well.
My Kerbal builds usually end in an explosion no matter what I do.
@@ExaCognition seeing how SpaceX constantly blow things up, you're definitely on the right track.
If it's not blowing up, you're not trying hard enough.
Damn I thought this was one of those videos with 500,000 views and I don't even remember subscribing but this is definitely a welcome suprise.
Thanks! I'm glad you liked it, still a pretty small channel here, but I'm glad the content is enjoyable.
@@ExaCognition You deserve more. Subbed.
Exa cognition is back.
Hello mate
Greetings from Nicaragua
Thanks, a bit of a delay on this one, but hopefully back to a faster schedule going forward.
Cool! I never knew how they could do all this, but now I know. I guess I'll use that when I inevitably make a half passion project half actual company project.
A bit of iteration can go a long way!
Impressive analysis of "Elon engineering" and "Elon time".
Thanks, it was pretty interesting reading through some of the employee interviews, there is quite a lot of interesting details about how they operate.
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@@Landoparada360 shut the fuck up you imbecile
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@@GerardoMartinez-yw3zu i'm pretty sure it's a troll, just ignore it
This channel is pure value!
Glad you like it!
I can tell you how they do it. They are not publicly traded, so they do not have a board of directors or stock holders to answer to. And the leadership culture is very much a learn from failure model. No one is afraid to screw up with a bold idea because they know failure teaches far more lesson than success. So, they are pretty much the opposite of ALL other corporations on the planet.
This is an excellent video! Taking a different view on Spacex, one that opens up some of the reasons why they're so innovative.
I think you'll be seeing the view-counts and subscriptions ramping up pretty soon...
Thanks, I was hoping it would be a bit of a different look on SpaceX and that it would be interesting.
Way more meat here than the average Elon watcher channel. I learned a LOT about SpaceX culture because these guys did a LOT of research!
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it, I'm actually just an individual making these videos, but it's great to hear its appreciated.
SpaceX moves so fast because a technical person is in charge instead of a financial person.
Or a political one like NASA
@@BillAldrin_4 Wym? The SLS is moving faster than the speed of a snail!
Rolls Royce rapidly developed the Merlin engine by taking a few off the end of the production line and running them hard till they broke. They'd identify where they broke, beef up those parts, do it again, till they had one tough engine with the best power to weight ratio. Broke a lot of very expensive engines, but it was a race and it was worth it. An old fashioned way of doing things maybe, but Elon knows he's not immortal, and this is the quickest way to Mars.
Test to destruction was something I am planning to cover in a future video, but it's great to see which areas are failure points, and which areas are over engineered, so that you can simultaneously improve quality and performance. As you say, it's expensive but can pay dividends down the line.
Excellent video. 9/10
Glad you liked it!
"By forcing Elimination of nonessential activities" (Onscreen stock footage of Suits in a meeting)
That was intend to be the point of that particular choice of cheesy stock footage. SpaceX make their technical development decisions quickly, in working groups with the relevant engineers at hand. The executive meeting room in this context is intended to be an example of nonessential activities that would typically happen in the traditional approach.
@@ExaCognition Pretty much as expected, but I did enjoy that editing choice. Thankyou for your response.
Of course, even if technical problems are causing trouble in management of company, it's a wise choice to let technicians solve that technical problem who know about it rather than some people who just care about the money that company makes
Elon musk has has go on récord to say that he hates meetings and unless they are for really important stuff he simply doesnt have any
FANTASTIC! I love SpaceX, but always wondered about their design process.
Yeah, its certainly a very interesting one indeed. Certainly not your usual rocket company.
This is incredible! I completely understand the infrastructure of SpaceX, and love the way you put this video together.
Awesome, thank you!
I was suspecting that SpaceX use Agile-like process, but did not know that for sure. After all, Musk is such a prominent person, and one could expect the whole company to be build around him. Also, distributed authority is what makes them so successfull. Thanks for that info.
I used to wonder the same thing. It was clear to me that SpaceX wasn't using a traditional methodology but I wondered if they'd developed their own brand new system. Like you, I suspected like you that someone like Musk might deliberately build a specific way of working.
I couldn't get a definitive breakdown of their exact methodology and how much of it is self developed (which I was quite intrigued to find out), but it seems to be an adaptation of some existing approaches and their own new stuff. They definitely use "Agile" practices quite a bit, there are specific mentions of Scrum teams on the software side. On the hardware side, their extreme levels of vertical integration, continuous prototyping are pretty unique. There are very few companies of their scale that work like this to such a degree.
From Elon comments and other employees, its clear that there is a lot of focus on they way they work, so its very likely their system has developed into something quite unique. SpaceX get a lot of focus on the results of their design, but I think it's actually the way they work that really sets them apart. From software to hardware, production and organisation itself, the methodology appears to be very deliberate.
@@ExaCognition Given this info, it makes even more sense to see their prototypes fail to land properly.
With this methodology you're not seeking for a perfect solution, you are primarily looking for right questions. With right questions you'll get to right answers, and they, in turn, will lead to right solutions.
If so, Thunderf00t's videos critiquing SpaceX are even more out of touch with reality.
you should read the spaceX book by Eric Berger.. they push the envelope by making sure enginners think out of the box and not bound by how things were done before.. I laugh when you say agile like.. no one in R&D for science or pure engineering works in an agile like process. they use the scientific method.. hypothesize, design, test conclude and make changes and test and conclude again.. Learn from your mistakes.. thats essentially the essence of Elon's message.. There was an interview with Eric Berger when he interviewed former and current staffers for the book.. he literally say.. you go to Boeing/NASA.. the average age is like 50.. you go to spaceX.. you have young grads.. willing to work long hours, thinking outside the box and not pre-trained in some old way.. half the time rigid processes like agile get in the way of progress..
SpaceX do use agile: spacenews.com/pentagon-advisory-panel-dod-could-take-a-page-from-spacex-on-software-development/
But I agree, there is more to SpaceX's way of working. I tried to capture a bunch of the speed related ones for this video, but there is still more to cover on the performance and cost side.
@@Mellowyellow8888 what you describe here sounds very agile-like to me. Even slide in this video shows quite similar iterative stages as you do. Agile is all about learning from mistakes on simple trototypes, rather than trying to design a product before building it.
In any case, thank you for the book suggestion.
The man is back, and of course RUclips did not inform me of that. Obligatory "feed the algorithm"
Glad you found it anyway!
I really liked the visualisations of starship prototypes timeline, CAD and testing methodologies. I've read Musk's biography twice and I never tire of Muak/SpaceX/Tesla videos, so I was surprised how much I learned here. #subscribed
Good PR, general unawareness on subject and head start before announcing. Quite simple, really. Also, some self-defeating points in the video. 1. fact that NASA pushes for 'unecessary' safety doesn't mean it is wrong ( if that had been the case ), especially in industry where all experiences are literally burned in fuel and written in blood 2. Silicon Valley is no longer "silicon" - it is software. And Scrum-but(t) is about worst way one can go about software (or product) development. 3 There's a great essay "Don't Kill Your Cattle" - that stresses investigating WHY something went wrong, not just replacing faulty machine with new shiny one.
thats why elon chose stainless steel when doing iterative development, carbon is too expensive and slow, stainless is cheaper and faster
Indeed, there are performance benefits at both the the cryogenic and re-entry temperatures, but the primary reason was development speed and manufacturing scalability.
Awesome video, stylish, informative, and easy to follow 😁
Glad you liked it!
Very well done! You deserve more and more subscribers...more and more views...keep up the good work. 👍
Thanks a lot, I appreciate it!
@@ExaCognition Pleasure!
Great and totally underrated video
Glad you think so!
One thing about weight in terms of a rocket's structure is the bigger you get the less it matters.
Something, something square-cube law is involved with this.
I also want to say thanks for putting a video to how I've felt about Space X this whole time.
Just imagine if every company operated like this!
In every company? A lot of people would die.
There are lots of great aspects to this approach, especially the reduction in internal organisation hierarchy, but they are able to do it because modern tech allows them to test remotely. NASA could do this now, but it couldn't in the past when most of the rockets needed human crew. If it went wrong, people died.
So yeah, a lot of companies could operate similarly and reasonably safely if they won't be testing products that can kill people. That is why software uses this approach so much.
On the other hand, you wouldn't want someone testing their new chemotherapy agent this way on people (as it happens, pharmaceutical companies already do loads of iterative tests, but not on people). Basically, as soon as you add a human into the equation as a potential casualty, this trial-and-error approach carries too much risk.
The flattening of hierarchies should happen everywhere though.
This is such a well made video! Good job man! You deserve over a million subscribers!!
Maybe one day!
Well done, really informative and well put. Continue your hard work.
Thanks, will do!
The guy who suggested steel was a genius. Or maybe elon himself drove this discussion
i think it was elon the guy who suggested stainless steel.
Maybe his stainless steel Sales Rep 😁
This was very well done. I enjoyed it very much.
Great to hear!
Very well done video, The Rapid Iteration approach reminds of much of the aviation advances made during WWII, build it, fly it and fail it. Somehow overly generous govt largesse trains industries to essentially stay home and play it safe similar to social engineering programs.
First of all I would like to be one of the many to thank Elon Musk for his leadership, determination and all of his efforts of helping humanity clean up our environment with sustainable energy programs. Also with his commitment of SpaceX to allow the exploration of space for future colonization. Our world is a fragile place that currently holds all of humanities eggs all in one basket. By spreading our wings and being able to leave our nest we will ensure that human consciousness will live on outside of our planet. I was asked by A very wise man in the early 2000s, if I had millions of dollars to help humanity, what would the most important innovations be in business for all of humanity? I knew that the petroleum industries were polluting our air, water and food to the point that people were getting sick and dying of diseases from those major fossil fuel pollutants. As we talked further and further about electric vehicles and transportation, solar power and other sustainable energies. He said I think you're right and it should be done because he as well had been pondering that question. He wanted to be thorough though so he asked if anything else should be focused on for all of humanity? I said yes and case of a global disaster whether it be a climatic asteroid strike or another world war I suggested that space exploration also be considered to prevent the collapse of human consciousness as we know it. Thinking back, all of those years almost seems like a deja vu, to where we are today. Again I can't think of anyone else but Elon that would put all of their Fortune on the line for the rest of humanity. With his consistant focus and extremely innovative leadership, he is leading the world out of darkness and into the light of the rest of our universe. So much yet to learn and do but thanks to the lead of people like Elon we can step in the right direction. We all have more in us to offer the rest of the world. So let's do it! This is the time and we are the people that will change the world! For those of you who like these ideas or have some of your own to offer, please let me know. I appreciate all of you and your comments. Let's shoot for the Moon and end up amongst the Stars!
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thx for the study tip. From now on I will apply elon time on my studies.
Enlightening... thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Ohhhh this one of them fancy videos.. great video man
Appreciate it!
"Rapid iterative development" is just a fancy way of saying "blow rockets up until they don't". It is just brute-forcing the way forward.
Impressive video!
Thanks a lot!
Very interesting.
Glad you think so!
Welcome to Kelly Johnson's skunk works which started in a rented circus tent. They produced America's first jet fighter in 143 days and didn't even have the engine when they started. Remember this was also done with slide rules, pencils and paper.
Yes, the Skunkworks is a very interesting case study, well worth reading about.
Wow! This is a very good video!!
I'm glad you found it interesting, I was a little concerned it might be a bit too business/engineering jargon in places, but hopefully it struck a decent balance and seems people have found it informative.
I'm subscribed..... now please make more videos. I like your style
More to come!
Muy buen video!!! , sos el primero que veo que expone la relación entre la rapidez de SpaceX con la forma de organizar a las personas de su equipo de trabajo. Estoy seguro que, si como algunas filosofías de trabajo de Toyota son utilizadas hoy por muchas empresas, la de SpaceX será también utilizada en muchos lugares del mundo dentro de unos años.
Muchas Gracias!
Having these many satellites in low-earth orbit literally makes Hypersonic weapons Advantage redundant because you get roughly the same amount of time to react to an attack because of the amount of satellites you have scattered everywhere
really interesting video, I know that spacex's rapid prototyping has even affected the way I work... I'm not so worried if the first or 5th version doesn't work.. .of course it does mean that you're going to use more material.. .!!
I guess its a little easier to recycle if it disassembles itself too.
Nice video.
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Thanks and welcome
Excellent analysis👍👍👍. Especially, the conservative approach of NASA. As a foreigner like me, I was astonished knowing that Preserverance was using decades ago computer. NASA need to change there approach and pick up today 's technology.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Its certainly evolved from the early cgi drawing board, there is 3 profession branches governing any invention, the exicutive - Engineering, judical - Physics, and a third most inventors forget to cope, legislating - Idiology, SpaceX forgot the legislate part with that absolute verticle rendering of a very tall craft, limited balance, criticle on motion impact, as a result, is still evolving...fast, but at many redundant attempts, because the Idiology of an invention that didn't exceed out-of-the box, thus repeats advancing the same path.
Excellent video. New sub...
Awesome, thank you!
V nice. 🚀
Glad you enjoyed it!
I've been a part of the software industry for 30+ years and seen the waterfall, RUP and Agile approaches. There is no question that the Agile approach is more cost affective because it lends itself to figuring out the technical details much earlier so you know what works and what doesn't much faster instead of getting to the finish line with waterfall or RUP only to find out that your technical direction used for the very foundation doesn't work and now you have to redesign critical systems which could change the entire design. Musk has also brought unit and integration testing to the hardware world. This is why he is succeeding where others fail.
Not only a exceptional video but exceptional music as well! What's the last song at the end called?
Glad you liked it, I seem to have settled on a mix of synthwave tracks for the moment. The last song is "Purple Voyager" by ELFL.
@@ExaCognition Nice thank you much appreciated!
Wow, a low subscriber channel with content quality similar to a million subscriber channel! Time for you to go big brother! Subscribed!👍
Thanks for the sub!
This is how we live with a one of the kind genius person. I bet when Albert Eisenstein was alive it was the same feeling.
Einstein was a wuss. The Elon Musk of those days was Howard Hughes.
@Darknees XL What they teach in schools is sheep fodder. Geniuses create, invent, direct, they don't drown in blah, blah, blah. Furthermore, Einstein's contributions will never compare to the fathers of quantum physics like Planck.
@Darknees XL facts, dude, facts. No blah, blah, blah
@@MaverickX36 You know that Einstein also colaborated a lot to quantum physics, right? What do you think eistein did? Also what do you think planck did, he was also one of those "blah blah blah" kinda guys he was a theoretical physicist
Also every scientific advancement is extremly important because as we advance in our technology with further understanding of the universe we can create more stuff, for example Einstein predicted the existance of lásers decades before they where actually created, and he leave a basic form that they could be created
Your definition of genious is also pretty limited and constrained, albeit i do admit that Word is thrown around too much this days, like really what do you consider the father of the theory of relativity one of the most important scientific discoveries in human history to be?
Unless you are a troll of course
@@carso1500 No troll. It's just that people put a visionary like Musk on the same level as a theorist like Einstein. No one denies Einstein's great contribution to knowledge. But the thread was opened with respect to Musk and equals to him. Technology does not advance by theory, but by creativity and exists thousands of years before science. Genius is the one who creates, the one who fights against all obstacles to make his vision in the physical world viable. The rest is for people who enjoy blah, blah.
Broad Group has managed to build a 10 storeys building in just 28 hours.
They managed that because the design is both prefabricated and unfoldable.
What do you think?
I'm really interested in emerging construction techniques. I was going to make a video on 3d printed buildings, but I am going to expand it to construction in general. Its very interesting because construction is one of the biggest expenses most individuals face, yet unlike many other technologies, its not really been getting much cheaper. That said, there is a lot of interesting stuff going on in this area that could change that.
@@ExaCognition The biggest shipping containers are 60ft long and 2.44 meters wide so if they expand by 300% you can get 179 square meters per container.
300% is what tenfold engineering is promising for the TF-38
@@ExaCognition The largest container ship has a capacity of 23'964 20ft containers so 7'988 60ft containers.
That's 1.4 million square meters that can be deployed in one go, slightly less than the New Century Global Center with 1.76 million square meters.
13:14 First operational flight in September, that is fantastic. I have been asking around for some weeks now if anybody knew when that might happen. Thus far nobody has answered any of my queries, and this is the first story I have seen, text or video, containing the information. What was your source? I sort of have a bet with Jim Bridenstine over whether Starship would begin deploying payloads before SLS flew.
Not sure if Starship will deliver payloads before SLS flies Artemis I. Elon Musk's Mar 30th 2021 tweet
"Next major technology rev is at SN20. Those ships will be orbit-capable with heat shield & stage separation system. Ascent success probability is high.
However, SN20+ vehicles will probably need many flight attempts to survive Mach 25 entry heating & land intact."
twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1376898630582419461?s=20
So they may not even have a Starship survive reentry until 2022. SLS is scheduled for Nov 4th, 2021 and with all the SLS parts in the VAB, they might make it on time.
May I suggest the topic of brain machine interfaces?, It's my career path!
Brain machine interface is definitely an interesting area to look at, its something I'd love to do at some point.
@@ExaCognition Great!
I send you my best wishes for your channel from Colombia in South America!
Salute to SpaceX 👍
I don't have anything smart or argumentative to say, so I'll just say very good video to feed the algorithm
I appreciate it none the less!
What voice reader you use?
I don't use a voice reader lol.
@@ExaCognition you’re sound like a robot though. Love your voice
the part about spacex i find weird, and maybe even entertaining, is thier spirit of "were going litteraly to mars and were doing it in this field in texas"
SpaceX at this moment seems to be the only rocket company that will get humanity back to the Moon and onwards to Mars.
Don't be silly, A few more physics nobel prizes will get us to mars.
Santa clause is not real
I just found out that raptor has 3.5 times more thrust per square meter than the F1 engine used by the saturn V which means it could lift a >300 meters tall rocket!
2,261kN/m² Raptor-FT
1,582kN/m² Raptor
1,394kN/m² Shuttle SRB
1,358kN/m² Merlin 1DFT+
1,164kN/m² RD-191
1,162kN/m² RD-193
1,159kN/m² RD-180
1,104kN/m² RD-181
1,099kN/m² RD-170
1,051kN/m² Merlin 1D
1,013kN/m² RS-27
959kN/m² BE-4
946kN/m² RD-275M
930kN/m² H-1
923kN/m² NK-33
900kN/m² RD-275
880kN/m² Viking 5
862kN/m² Viking 2
764kN/m² Rutherford
752kN/m² RS-56 OBA
673kN/m² RS-68A
647kN/m² F-1
636kN/m² RS-68
487kN/m² RD-107
411kN/m² RS-25 SSME
363kN/m² Vulcain
311kN/m² Vulcain 2
That's quite handy for stacking them in as "small" diameter cylinder as possible. I assume it's got lower volumetric efficiency though, given it has a lower thrust to weight ratio than merlin (if we ignore propellant systems), though it is a 2 stage combustion engine. I'm quite intrigued to see what the final raptor isp is, it could be pretty high.
@@ExaCognition Yeah, it's the square cube law, if you make your engine twice as big it will have 4 times more thrust but 8 time more mass/volume.
So thrust per unit of area is specific to a given engine design while thrust to weight ratio is a bit of an unscientific unit.
Im excited of skylink so that i can play a smoother game no laggging
Indeed, low latency over long distance is big. Though, if I no longer have 100 ping, what is my excuse for losing every game?
@@ExaCognition uhhhhh hackers?
Look out ViaSat
A real time sandbox composed of real time materials.
100 years later Elon name will be in History test.
It's called innovative synergy without bureaucratic graft to stifle the process.
Hey spaceX ,
How about using your heavy lifter to put a dust cloud in orbit to counter act global warming over the poles?
So basically like the Robinsons Company in the animated movie "Meet the Robinsons"... Keep moving Forward. Lots of failed prototypes leading to the best final product.
they value every employee no matter what job discription they have
This babayaga begs to differ.
They should dig a hole in the ground as depicted in some olde 50's and 60s era scifi art.
Whereas assembly would be much easier with gantries and elevators. Work can be performed in any weather 24/7.
Then they wouldn't have to deal with cranes and the hazzards of working with them.
Should a booster assembly go kablooey - all the bits would be recoverable with nothing falling upon innocent victims.
No worries in case of hurricanes or tornadoes, just button up the lid, continue working.
A mobile disassembly gantry would be handy when disassembling reusable boosters, after they land (intact). Until such time that they can land back into the launch hole in the ground.
I wish i was a fireball a fireball XL5
Everything. EVERYTHING. There’s no k in everything
All this free information Chinese will be making notes.
Let's findout e termina o vídeo haha pensei que ia explicar
Pretende ser um gancho para o próximo vídeo!
Why can't blue origin get anything into orbit
We're almost in the stage of colonizing other planets and fighting with their natives, such a big step in 500 years (from a very American point of view, I know)
Why even say something like that. This woke garbage has to go
beta? nah beeter
Listen...
Algorithm
Thanks!
All the work style of space X just seems childish and stupid but it's actually pretty effective for mass production
Applying crunch culture to space travel is how you end up with dead astronauts... It's horrible for the workers in the software industry, it wont be any better when people are trying to survive on a planet that is entirely uninhabitable.
I don't think its quite that simple, design crunches themselves can be rough but how it can impact on safety doesn't have to be mutual. It's intuitive that crunches/overwork hurt concentration and thus quality, but the safety exposure is greatly dependent on the robustness of the development process.
The development and quality processes tend to have a much bigger impact on the failure rates than the development speed itself. Another way to think about it, if you build a lot of prototypes you get more opportunities to identify can correct failures. Falcon9 is probably a reasonable demonstration of this, it flew so many times before people even got on the spacecraft, thus the development process itself wasn't a safety risk.
The answer to safety is test, test and test. Spacex do a lot of testing so many of the fail condition show up in their testing, The crunch time culture only becomes problematic if you remove the iteration. Which do you think is safer a plane design and built for 20 years but only flown successfully once or a plane design and built in a year but has already been flown 20 times successfully.
Lol, it’s horrible that people making 100s of thousands a year for just being the labor. And owners become millionaires within years. Oh poor victims
@@scienceisall2632 i mean, yeah, you hit that one on the nose: The people who are actually doing the work only ever see a tiny fraction of the total wealth they create through their work, while a handful of folks who are already wealthy beyond imagining take the rest for themselves. That's the definition of exploitation.
But that said, i don't believe that is relevant to the issue i was actually pointing out. My concern is with the "get it done yesterday" attitude. Sending people to Mars will be the most ambitious project humanity has ever undertaken, and it's not something we can afford to be sloppy with. While i appreciate the rapid progress they've made, I feel that crunch culture borders on a recklessness we can't afford when human lives are in the balance. And when you factor in that all of this is riding on the ego of one of the richest people on Earth, I can't help but be feel nervous for whoever Elon plans on sending to Mars...
Its not the same. Elon's companies make delays. They aim for a goal, but they don't push out things before they are ready.
Blitzkrieg.
The true reason why SpaceX is going so fast is because Elon Musk really, REALLY wants to get to Mars, in his lifetime, and preferably have some useful life left to live there for a while before dying.
I kid you not. Just investigate Musk and you will see that everything he is developing (tunnels, EV, rockets, hyperloop etc) is meant for use on Mars.
It's not that "other's can not" move quickly, it's the politician/contractor milk the taxpayer mentality that has kept them (NASA) slow.
Laugh all you want at Elon time, you can be damn sure it’s faster than Boeing time =D
it doesn't, your imagination does, lol ...
Easy, no political hinderance
CGI... well nasa has to have disney make their shit haha so they are slower... what what don't smash my blue pill. Cant hide God, worlds flat, space is water, space doesn't even exist.
Are you saying water doesn’t exist?
The largest container ship, the hmm algeciras only cost $140 million and it's far bigger than any rocket...
What in the world is that supposed to mean?
@@penguinyay1936 Wrote that when I saw the thumbnail.
Just saying there is room for improvement to reach the same cost per ton.
Space x is already the cheapest in the world by far, thats so unnecessary comment lol
You r right, there is a room for improvement, and forever will be, thats not very accurate, but ok
@@penguinyay1936 Superheavy/starship should cost ~30M$ to build and weight 320 tons (dry mass) together. That's 94'000$ per ton.
The largest ships cost 140M$ and weight 200'000 tons. That's 700$ per ton so 134 times cheaper.
easy they dont prorastinate like i do