[mannyv]

Whatever you think of Musk personally, he's one of the few people trying to move the needle.

According to Wikipedia design started in 2015, which means it's taken them more than 8 years to get to cash-flow break even. This is why you need billions of dollars to get started. And that doesn't include the fact that they had to build a rocket company to launch their birds.

Looks like they picked the right 60 engineers.

They presumably also had to build all the ground stations and infrastructure to manage all those devices...unless they're using AWS Ground Control, which would be hilarious.

[good8675309]

Sorry, you make good points but rocket man makes mean tweets so none of that matters. Jokes aside, I really wish we could just discuss the article instead of it turning into a flame war but this happens everytime someone posts anything that has anything to do with Musk.

[seattle_spring]

> make good points but rocket man makes mean tweets so none of that matters

Surely you're aware that this sort of comment is exactly what sparks and fans the flames of said flame wars?