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I think the whole quote is in order here.

> I suspect it's a question which is considered less important so far, so SpaceX didn't pay that much attention to it, considering they had to do a lot of other things already.

They had a lot of other things to work on, so they - because of that, I suspect - didn't pay that much attention to it.

I don't think it's the same as what you wrote.




I strongly suspect they've given the matter orders of magnitude more engineer-hours of consideration than you have. Yes, they have many other things to consider as well; that's why they have a lot of engineers.


I think for some questions you don't need to measure who spent more time to determine who's more correct. I also think that SpaceX realized they'd need to give many more efforts to develop this particular superior technology - I agree that this could be expensive and would take time. Maybe the Starship plans also affected their decision.


It's not whether they considered it, it's whether they had the spare engineering hours to develop it.




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