[innergame]

I feel overcome by the Dianne Kruger effect, to an extent I don't remember feeling any time recently. I'm becoming more and more interested in news about rocketry (due to SpaceX of course) but I'm still a full on space-pleb. I see something like this and my intuition screams "Woah! Of course! Why don't other rocket companies do this? What's wrong with them?!"

But the rational part of my brain kicks in and slaps me down for being so arrogant. It feels humbling to be reminded how stupid one can be.

[kevin_thibedeau]

The traditional rocket companies have no interest in reducing launch costs. Now they're looking like fools for letting SpaceX patent critical tech they could have developed 20 years ago.

[desdiv]

SpaceX doesn't patent anything[0]. Tesla does file for patents, but has basically made all their patents free to use for all[1]. Seems like Musk is just not a fan of the patent regime.

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-patents-2012-11

[1] https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you

[CydeWeys]

Yeah, but if they'd gotten the patents then they could profit off them (i.e. rent-seeking). Elon Musk getting the patents removes those revenue streams.

[TeMPOraL]

I don't know. Honestly, I feel hit by D-K myself here, because until today I was convinced that launching a rocket from an airplane is a huge expense compared to the very small benefit it can bring. But this thread made me seriously reevaluate this assumption.

The worst thing is, I can't even remember where I have learned that plane-launched rockets make little sense.

[dontreact]

Do you mean Dunning-Kruger effect?

[sidegrid]

Dianne Kruger......?????

[MBCook]

The Dunning-Kruger effect: The idea that people of low skill or knowledge about something don't know how much they don't know and thus think they're much better at it then they actually are.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

[oculusthrift]

was dianne his wife?

[sidegrid]

Thank you for getting it.

[usrusr]

It's the recursive version.

[innergame]

Haha! *Dunning–Kruger :P