I usually write these sorts of things, but I’m on vacation, and Mike Wall has ten. I think that the Bezos announcement of New Glenn and New Armstrong are as big as Elon’s Mars announcement though. I consider Bezos both more ambitious, and more credible, in the sense that he is spending his own money, and not lobbying the government for it.
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OT: Rumor BlackBerry will offer phone with hardware keyboard:
https://news.google.com/news/amp?caurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.digitaltrends.com%2Fmobile%2Fblackberry-bbb100-news%2Famp%2F#a-678da1b6-e959-4a07-8f83-145075c49364
The new BlackBerry at CES 2017:
https://youtu.be/w_mNDWKb30w
I have a lot of confidence in Bezos but I am still giving it to SpaceX only because everyone of their non NASA/gov launch was more than likely a launch taken away from a foreign launch provider and brought it to america.
Once Bezos starts actually making some launches for customers…
Elon is arguably doing greater, more difficult work; he is causing what would have been wasted NASA money and effectively redirecting it to developing a real Mars colonization effort.
Nevertheless, I wish both Elon and Jeff the best. I hope they become competitive in a thriving space economy.
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In all fairness, Bezos also has a heck of a lot more of his own money to spend than Musk does.
All that said: more power to him. I’m excited to see New Glenn developed.