Comments by "Boy Cottchina" (@BoycottChinaa) on "Elon Musk \"We dug our own grave with Cybertruck\"" video.

Meanwhile he put governments out of the business by cutting cost of getting to orbit in half.
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@extremelynice again, because he cut the cost of lifting people and supplies to orbit IN HALF. Also he changed electric cars from lame to cool at the speed of plaid. That said, I assumed he was a Bond villain for most of his recent career, a la Drax from Moonraker
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@extremelynice if it wasn't simple math, backed up by budgets that must be reconfigured/programs cancelled, then perhaps, but consider how we no longer use Soyuz to reach the ISS, when Putin charged $90 million (a discount compared to alternatives) a ride. Now Elon does the same job for $60 million and cost keeps dropping each time. This accounting is demonstrable several different ways and by many independent sources.
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@lcg3092 a dozen of them gave up trying because he made it too expensive to subsidize competition - to your point, US SLS program and Boeing Starliner received 10x the financial input from taxpayers but both effectively were cancelled because Elon's company is dominating the industry.
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@extremelynice he is spending wildly on developing the largest lift capacity rocket ever made, so R and D are legitimate expenses keeping the company from ever achieving true profitability (which never was his goal, as colonizing Mars was the reason for starting the company), but each lift is carefully budgeted by customers from the middle east to the NRO, plus insurers of customers satellites are also heavily involved. It should be common sense that Falcon rockets visibly being reused, some of them 20-30 times by now, will save you immensely over watching them instead tumble into the sea after each launch, plus China and India desperately trying to reverse engineer his process should further support those numbers.
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@extremelynice two words: reusable rockets, and yes, a stolen 1990s design from NASA (the Yankee Clipper) but effectively executed without redundant jobs program costs and bureaucracy, using 3d printed engines.. it seems like it would be a challenge not to understand this..
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@extremelynice when NASA became a jobs program in the 1990s, devoid of meritocracy, subsidizing Huntsville etc to please powerful Senators, it becameimpossile to compete with a streamlined company run by engineers. And since no other reusable rocket exists, at this scale, why would you bring up other examples for comparison? Further supporting the 1/2 off budgeting.. plus he could not subsidize Space X by fudging numbers for more than a few years without exposure due to heavy scrutiny of the industry now threatened by his products
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@extremelynice yes, inspections and fiscal oversight, required when launching billions worth of equipment, but your questioning is intriguing.. Where do you think the money is coming from to subsidize costs? Tesla? Hehhehh
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@lcg3092 hahahhh bad start is misquoting me to begin with. " to be put out OF the business " of orbital lift contracts, ie tonnage to space per agency, company, country, and that is where Elon has dominated, because, once again.. He has discounted access by half regardless of method or accounting, that is why he dominates, he charges less and Falcon can fit wide diameter objects, like his Tesla, now headed for Uranus, which I'd guess would excite you.. Or at least impress you as that was awhile ago. Do you guys have dodge hellcats and are angry at those dragstrip losses, why the animosity?
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@extremelynice https://youtube.com/shorts/X7GStEo6_50?si=mQm_80cfwud_xDcC
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@coryfice1881 scale of production and volume manufacturing acrue the savings, plus he uses methalox, a methane blend that environmentalists can't whine about and isn't as expensive as his competitors use ( though they all converting, which is another innovation he can claim).
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@lcg3092 Britain stopped helping Virgin Atlantic and New Zealand stopped helping Rocket Labs projects
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@lcg3092 its nice when someone indicates the quality of the discourse ahead of time by giving their own comment a thumbs up😆👍 but to your question, I was thinking of nations like Luxembourg, which invested heavily in the satellite industry, but instead of challenging Ariane Space for ESA space, they folded to the Space X discount. Just African nations that were openly investing millions into their own launch capabilities because of proximity to equator, and already have satellites up, Algeria, Angola, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda. Others like South Africa and Argentina have allowed China to build out some infrastructure in the fantasy they will be allowed to use it, but again, point was none of these programs progressed as hoped because Elon has made lift costs so much lower, requiring more subsidized investment by competition, India and China, both keenly trying to knock off Elon as well, further indicating the engineering has been proven top shelf, as they each lose potential lift business to Space X, South Korea felt the need for rocketry investment under a civilian guise to offset the North's aggressive ballistic industry.. Anyway, again, why hate on Elon, the truck being bullet proof proves his foresight again
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@lcg3092 I didnt realize the details of Britain and New Zealand, and meant Virgin Galactic not Atlantic, but point is, Elon's business has taken lift business from the rest or slowed investment because it works SO well, as do Teslas, despite not being "real" cars they are innovative and impressive.
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@iconofsin1043 he cut the cost of both and has delivered ISS crew 2 or 3 times now without issues, is this the flat earth video channel ?
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