JF Mezei wrote on Wed, 14 Mar 2018
18:42:42 -0400:

On 2018-03-14 15:10, Fred J. McCall wrote:

You don't set a test and then say, "And we'll conduct it with whatever
we can get together by then."

You really don't know **** about how engineering development works, do
you?


If you really think that Musk can design the BFS with all structures
inside in a couple of years and have a test this soon, you are overly
optimistic.


MUSK tends to be optimistic. Again, you don't set a date for the test
and then just fly with whatever the **** you have at that point.
Expect the test to move right.


Consider also that Musk like good PR stunts. And launching something
that looks like BFS this early is also a great PR stunt against NASA's SLS.


BFR Spaceship doesn't compete with SLS. Falcon Heavy (or Falcon Super
Heavy) competes with SLS.


Note: SpaceX spent more time on Dragon 2 than on BFS, and it still isn't
flying. To think that SpaceX has already designed a 100 pax ship is
ludicrous.


To think that they're going to blow hundreds of millions of dollars on
a publicity stunt is even more ludicrous.


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"Ordinarily he is insane. But he has lucid moments when he is
only stupid."
-- Heinrich Heine