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Comment Re:Flight and passenger prep (Score 1) 318

While Elon's pricing is probably not that realistic but you are still comparing the costs of building the rocket from scratch to reusing a plane. He currently isn't really giving much at all of a discount for using a refurbished 1st stage rocket. The cost of the fuel for a Falcon 9 launch is only $200,000. The cost for a launch is going to come way down if it can be designed to fly 100s or 1000s of launches with minimal maintenance and full recovery of both stages.

Comment Re:If I switch, I figure it will be to a Pixel/Nex (Score 1) 70

Google for Nexus and Pixel devices does 2 years of OS updates and 3 years of security updates. As they release OS updates annually you will have the latest version of android for 3 years if you buy at launch. Since the Pixel costs about 2x the price of older Nexus devices I think they should support it a bit longer. You can however continue to get OS updates from 3rd parties.

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