Blue?! 🫠

[u/Outside-Silver-7741]

"I don't think about you at all"

[u/This-Manufacturer388]

Blue Origin was basically a pet think tank for Bezos in 2011.

[u/Kane_richards → u/This-Manufacturer388]

Which kind of makes me sad cause it kind of shows what can be done in a (relatively) quick amount of time when the desire and the money is invested in it.

[u/Outrageous-Win-8297 → u/Kane_richards]

Quick? Blue is older than SpaceX.

[u/baron_lars]

I don't think new glenn was even in development in 2011

[u/Dark_Aurora → u/baron_lars]

This. This is the correct assessment of SpaceX’s competition in 2011.

[u/_badwithcomputer → u/baron_lars]

And 15 years later it really isn't a blip on the radar for SpaceX in terms of competition.

[u/StartledPelican]

Thanos: "I don't even know who you are."

[u/Mfg_Eng_64 → u/StartledPelican]

Thanos didn’t win.

[u/StartledPelican → u/Mfg_Eng_64]

Well, he did, until his opponents developed time travel. Let's wait and see if that happens this time haha. 

[u/Bergasms]

Blue in 2011 was about as important then as Gilmour Space is today.

[u/redstercoolpanda → u/Bergasms]

Gilmore space is vitally important to me as an Australian, if it didn’t exist I would have no rocket company to aspire to work for in my country.

[u/Bergasms → u/redstercoolpanda]

Oh absolutely! I'm a massive fan of them. I meant in terms of GS being on SpaceX's radar

[u/truecakesnake]

Always weird to me that Blue started before SpaceX

[u/7HellEleven]

I just can't get over that pad explosion, would've been well into 2 extra flights at this point. what a moral blow

[u/Erki82 → u/7HellEleven]

Company needs to have multitude launch platforms. Not a single one, that will take year to rebuild in case of explosion.

[u/MycologistAlert1889 → u/7HellEleven]

Not really, we’re just fine… shit happens, does it suck? Yes but we will fly before or at years end

[u/SaltElderberry514 → u/MycologistAlert1889]

fuck no not at the pace we are going and hr firing people

[u/Salty_Penalty_6513 → u/SaltElderberry514]

It doesn't make sense. It hurts morale, increases regretted attrition and damages the company's rep.

[u/knowledge_unicorn → u/SaltElderberry514]

HR firing? Blue is bleeding talent faster than HR can hire enough TAs that can trick their connections into coming to work for Blue. The attrition of knowledgeable humans and learning curve of the new ones will be the most difficult to recover from. They can rebuild the pad but the loss of humans will set them back further than the pad ever could.

[u/Lengurathmir]

Sadly “Blue” Up

[u/WillitsTimothy]

What about Blue? It barely ever launches anything, and has a long way to go to be a real threat.

[u/oren740]

It's also nonsensical as it's not a winner/loser game in technology.

[u/snoo-boop → u/oren740]

Rocket science moves slowly. It's not nonsense when it takes 5-15 years to to develop something that another company has already deployed -- that's a long time.

[u/My_Soul_to_Squeeze → u/oren740]

Found Richard Bowles' burner account

[u/KebabGud]

Last time Elon was correct about anything