[theincredulousk]

This must be a jab, but obviously yes.

Last year they had $28 billion in net income. With that kind of money you can hire the best in the world to build literally whatever you want. They could go build a space shuttle if they felt like it - probably without much trouble.

In the unlikely situation that it didn't work, they'd pay someone else to fix it or re-do it. The least likely (albeit not unprecedented) end situation is that 'none of the things actually work'.

[brokensegue]

Boeing can't even make an airplane without trouble and you think BoA could churn out a space shuttle? The space shuttle program was estimated to have cost $200B.

[theincredulousk]

Boeing has made literally tens of thousands of airplanes "without trouble". One debacle doesn't mean they "can't even make an airplane".

"Space Shuttle" was rhetorical, but yeah, they could churn out a space shuttle. They could buy SpaceX and use their engineers to do it. BofA has $2.3 TRILLION in assets.

The point is you can buy expertise. It's not like a bunch of bank tellers coded up a cloud platform. Nor would you have a regional branch manager running an aerospace program. You'd hire people that know how to do those things the same as any other expert at any other company.

[swedish_mafia]

You give them €200B to change a lightbulb and it still won’t work.