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maneesh

You don't think that Musk had any naysayers thinking SpaceX would fail?

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Certainly there were: https://www.forbes.com/sites/beltway/2011/05/31/the-case-aga...

A quick googling probably will find early naysayers for any significant today's success.

Of course they had naysayers.

But launching rockets is not impossible. Recovering them is hard. But it's a bounded problem.

This is another one or two orders of magnitude harder.

But they were people loudly claiming that landing and recovering the rocket is impossible. And uneconomical. All the way past first demonstrations, and it was only until SpaceX started doing it as a matter of course that these voices finally stopped.

You had people saying that trains were impossible and that passengers would suffocate once they started moving (in the 1800s)

There are always going to be delusional people at every occasion in history.

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