Given Bezos track record personally i think he is on a longer plain of thought over Musk. (Look at lack of showboating to raise capital investment perhaps as an example).
Musk is Cavalier and courts the press.
Bezos is on a path which is clearly mentally defined and configured.
He also took a Wally and a Daemen to space which is outstanding work in my book.
Taking his little Brother was just family feud gone large spite.
(
hoppitygoestotown The temporal displacement occurred exactly, Tue 20 Jul 2021, 19:22,
Reply)
Bezos appears to me to be chasing government launch contracts.
i.e. using the technology in order to make money from the status quo.
Musk appears to be chasing a private landing on Mars, using the technology to fund that end goal.
(
wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 11:50,
Reply)
Musk needs NASA and the US government more generally to fund Starship development
but more crucially he needs government support for the technology to do more than just land at Mars. ISRU is going to need either a submarine-style nuclear reactor (necessitating government licenses and whatnot) or a supermassive solar farm, and there are serious problems launching anywhere near either of those (necessitating a heavy rover and miles of cable to move your power station out of the debris zone).
I don't think SpaceX is actually making any money at the moment, setting up Starlink and Starship and Starbase and the oil rig conversions and so on, while still maintaining the fleet of Dragons and Falcons and everything else.
(
brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 15:37,
Reply)