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<blockquote data-quote="Shadowrider" data-source="post: 4055946" data-attributes="member: 3099"><p>Take this with some salt. Clue #1 is that EDM machining isn't new at all. I saw my first die sinking EDM machine in the'70s and it goes back to the '40s. The concept was actually discovered in the late 1700's but they had no ability to do it. Just because these guys just heard of it doesn't mean it's new.</p><p></p><p>Also, Boeing does a crapton of business with the .gov. It is absolutely mind blowing at the requirements imposed on .gov contracts on an item of this scale. You don't just build a widget and then go sell it to the .gov. This adds enormous cost and complexity and if you were ever involved you would question why any company would put up with it. The reason is the .gov pays for the research. Elon has built a business and and systems to meet his own requirements and he's brilliantly side stepped a lot of the BS, but the flip side of that is he's assuming the financial risk too. In the end he'll have a rocket working at a much reduced cost of development.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shadowrider, post: 4055946, member: 3099"] Take this with some salt. Clue #1 is that EDM machining isn't new at all. I saw my first die sinking EDM machine in the'70s and it goes back to the '40s. The concept was actually discovered in the late 1700's but they had no ability to do it. Just because these guys just heard of it doesn't mean it's new. Also, Boeing does a crapton of business with the .gov. It is absolutely mind blowing at the requirements imposed on .gov contracts on an item of this scale. You don't just build a widget and then go sell it to the .gov. This adds enormous cost and complexity and if you were ever involved you would question why any company would put up with it. The reason is the .gov pays for the research. Elon has built a business and and systems to meet his own requirements and he's brilliantly side stepped a lot of the BS, but the flip side of that is he's assuming the financial risk too. In the end he'll have a rocket working at a much reduced cost of development. [/QUOTE]
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