This is amazing, and a pretty amazing feat that we are taking for granted. Space is super super tough, the complex coordination of manufacturing something like this is being totally written off by many, but I assure you it is non trivial.<p>A popular sentiment in that industry is that rocketry is like writing software composed of many modules and testing each module separately on mac, then deploying the entire build on linux. If it doesn&#x27;t work, you don&#x27;t just back out the conversion error or stray quotes you left in, your rocket explodes.<p>The engineering spend alone is massive, as is the damage to the company when a failure is syndicated across youtube. Taking big risks is something we should be promoting.<p>We are in a technological renaissance and it starts with lowering launch costs to achieve realtime LEO satellite blanketing and distributed communication channels to connect to the other fucking 3 billion people without internet. Bezos is accomplishing something great, and we don&#x27;t need to qualify that statement.<p>He and Musk are definitively the Jobs and Gates of the 21st century if you want to use the obvious cliche.<p>What Gates did. What Jobs accomplished. It was pretty fucking powerful. Musk and Bezos are sort of doing that, except both are working in at least 3 industries at that same scale.<p>I wish Blue Origin, Sierra Nevada, Firefly and all the other people in new space well. Nano-sats will provide realtime insight to the earth, people will be able to own a satellite in ~5-10 years because of these advancements.<p>this is good for <i>all</i> of us, and the only negative thing to say about it is that for god sakes Jeff, that rocket does look a bit like a stubby penis.