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I believe OP means JOHN Hammond because the quote is from the Jurassic Park novel about that character. He was played by Richard Attenborough in the movie.
I'd love Musk and Bezos to experience the Richard Hammond rocket which turns into a spinning, flaming fuselage after 5 seconds of acceleration
More enthusiasm than sense and they're prone to crashing?
The worst part is they're doing stuff other organizations already solved. The reverse booster/thruster thing Musk wants was accomplished by the soviets back in the late '70s IIRC. They came to the conclusion it was safer and cheaper to just have people land how we've been doing it since the beginning. NASA reviewed their findings and agreed with the soviets, so we have never pursued it.
But big brain bazinga boy has to have his Trek War Cyberpunkerino, so now government subsidies are siphoned away from actual research to whatever this shit is.
More than that, I wouldn't say no to some Kessler syndrome in a higher orbit. We need a few generations to get our shit together down here on Earth
those satellites burning up aren't benign
https://research.noaa.gov/2023/10/16/noaa-scientists-link-exotic-metal-particles-in-the-upper-atmosphere-to-rockets-satellites/
One of my fears is that it creates a race, China's already working on a large internet constellation themselves. Because if they don't, they let Elon Musk control internet communication in low Earth orbit.
It's the tragedy of the Commons all over again. China probably doesn't want to spend billions of dollars flooding low earth orbit with internet satellites, but they can't sit back and let musk and bezos do it unilaterally. I assume they were content with whatever international organizations handed out lower earth orbits, until apartheid baby decided to eat up every space he could