Elon Musk
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Because it's kind of fundamentally a consumable
Well, yes, but your brake pads in your car are also consumable, but they last a very long time.
So it just needs to last a very long time.
I mean, we have brought the ship back and had it do a soft landing in the ocean.
We've done that a few times.
But it lost a lot of tiles.
It was not reusable without a lot of work.
So even though it did come to soft landing, it would not have been reusable without a lot of work.
So it's not really reusable in that sense.
That's the biggest problem that remains is fully reusable heat shield.
So if you want to be able to land it, refill propellant and fly again.
You can't do this laborious inspection of 40,000 tiles to everything.
Well, I don't know.
I guess the urgency is going to come from where I was leading the company.
So my sense of urgency, I have a maniacal sense of urgency.
So that maniacal sense of urgency projects through the rest of the company.
Yeah, I'm constantly addressing the limiting factor.
I mean, on the deadlines front, I mean, I generally actually try to
aim for a deadline that I at least think is at the 50th percentile.
So it's not like an impossible deadline, but it's the most aggressive deadline I can think of that could be achieved with 50% probability.