• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    They created reusable rockets. Lots and lots of concepts on the drawing board, but theirs was unique and the first one to get made.

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      Creating isn’t inventing, and there’s wasn’t the first to be flown. Man, the SpaceX fans don’t really know the history of the industry they make these claims about.

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        You referring to the DC-X subscale tech demonstrator?

        I think inventing is a less well defined term, since anyone with a napkin can claim to invent something to a very low fidelity. The details are the hard part, not the idea itself. So that’s why I specified created, since that is inventing to a very high level of fidelity.

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          There’s several other examples. I also don’t think inventing is an ill-defined term. That’s an absurd thing to even say.

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                So it needs to be created in real life, rather than just a drawing or design? Or does creating it only as a design without building it count?

                Also, all technology is built on previous work, especially rocketry. That would seem to eliminate the possibility of invention in rocketry due to the clause of your own ingenuity, etc. What’s the cutoff for invention vs refinement?

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          I’ve had experience with Musk Fans in the past. They all read from the same script, including the “I don’t even like Musk” lie.