[macspoofing]

>just because "reusable rockets" got laughed at by the existing space industry …

Were they laughed at? After all, the Space Shuttle was around for decades. It turned out that reusable rockets were not cost effective nor particularly safe. Space X has yet to show reusability is viable.

[ceejayoz]

> Space X has yet to show reusability is viable.

This is a bizarre assertion. It's clearly viable; no other American launcher can currently carry crew, they gobbled up 60% of the global commercial launch market by 2017, and they're undercutting everyone on price very successfully.

[grandrew]

I'd say what this all proves is that a free market and private sector is much better at those things than a communist'y government-run project.