>>13918686>Just Elon being overdramatic.I think it's the opposite, it's people in general who have gotten blase about what "disaster" means in actual real business, because we've gotten used to so many decades or space businesses just being vehicles for infinite government pork (Below Orbit is close enough since it's backed by infinite bezosbux). So multiyear setbacks and such just mean more money.
Elon wants SpaceX to actually be successful and stand on its own legs, so a manufacturing snafu that slows things down and means an extra 6 months delay or whatever is actually a big deal. Which is like, normal. If I'm running a fucking bakery and there is a fire in the kitchen which badly damages a big oven or fridge or something as we're heading into the holiday season that's absolutely a "disaster" as far as a normal business is concerned.
Of course that doesn't mean unrecoverable or anything, and they do have lots of runway. But they are serious about their aggressive targets so things that other places would just write off as a whatever (hohum, SLS just got delayed ANOTHER 6-12 months because of an engine problem) are genuinely things they care about. Which is good but not the norm.
