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by ToValueFunfetti 794 days ago
By all means, demonstrate that. I love to change my mind, but I still need more than an assertion that I'm wrong to do so.
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They're just completely different projects that are not comparable. The Webb telescope had no choice but to work.

The SpaceX team has a choice, and they choose "fail fast". There's a gradient that SpaceX can sit on for their development, and for a suite of companies owned by Musk, people would like to see less fail fast and often.