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Elon has a tweet in which he specifically says "Not building a deluge system on the pad might be a mistake, and time will tell".

They're learning, they're taking risks and they're doing new things.

Obviously they're not going to get everything flawless the first time around, and they're going to iterate and improve.

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they’re THE launch provider. have been for a while. most successful and proven rockets. they dont need to go fast and break things; it’s not a startup.

innovation can happen while also considering ideas such as “let’s not put a deluge system and just blow up the pad” — tho i suspect elon has something to do with that

Falcon 9 is not a startup, but Starship certain my.

You’re right though, they could run it like traditional space… and it would be just like SLS, New Glenn Ariene 6, etc

They’re doing what they’re doing for a reason

So your opinion is that any large company must move slowly. That is literally 100% against Musk whole philosophy of innovation. The speed of innovation should be increasing, not decreasing. SpaceX can now invest more, and thus push innovation faster. Just using that new money to do the same thing slower would be stupid.

This issue is exactly why so many large companies become un-innovative despite having huge R&D budgets.

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