“SpaceX also managed to build their launch tower for 1% of what NASA spent.”
I do appreciate the scrappy nature of it all, but surely scrounging scrap metal because “rebar is too expensive” isn’t adding that much value, is it? Is there just massive margin on rebar and we don’t know it? Also eventually they’re going to run into an issue somewhere when their scrounged construction material doesn’t perform as well as even cheap options, right?
Definitely seems like if they accidentally blow up the tower at some point, they're not gonna find a second identical massive pressurized tank to use. But my impression is that they really expect that they're gonna blow up the tower accidentally at least once, so they've gotta build it cheap.
They really did lose at least one Falcon on the launchpad, I would think if they lost a starship on the launchpad the tower would not survive it.
“SpaceX also managed to build their launch tower for 1% of what NASA spent.”
I do appreciate the scrappy nature of it all, but surely scrounging scrap metal because “rebar is too expensive” isn’t adding that much value, is it? Is there just massive margin on rebar and we don’t know it? Also eventually they’re going to run into an issue somewhere when their scrounged construction material doesn’t perform as well as even cheap options, right?
Definitely seems like if they accidentally blow up the tower at some point, they're not gonna find a second identical massive pressurized tank to use. But my impression is that they really expect that they're gonna blow up the tower accidentally at least once, so they've gotta build it cheap.
They really did lose at least one Falcon on the launchpad, I would think if they lost a starship on the launchpad the tower would not survive it.
“I know it's nutpicking”
Of course it’s not David; that’s what Republicans do.