Landing on Mars is a solved problem. Nuclear bombs are a solved problem. Doesn't mean anyone can just write a check and get it done and definitely doesn't mean any business model can bear that cost.

Of course it means that!

You only need a big enough check.

No it doesn't.

India has landed on Mars for a fraction of the cost it took other nations, and the ESA has never been able to pull it off.

Not every cost is fungible and money isn't always the limiting factor.

It should be obvious that not all risks can be converted into a capital problem.

People say this, but then fall in love, get divorced, get depressed, or their company might lose its mojo, get sued, or lose an unreplaceable employee. But they will still say “all risk can be costed.”

>India has landed on Mars for a fraction of the cost it took other nations, and the ESA has never been able to pull it off.

This further confirms my assertion, btw.

If it is just a matter of paying up, why hasn't ESA pulled it off? I'm pointing out and offering examples that "solved problem" has no bearing on the ease or organization capacity of any one group to do it. It is merely a statement that no unknown, new solution needs be invented.

If I have to spell it out you're clearly debating in bad faith and we're done here.

We are arguing if it's possible or not.

Who cares if a thousand guys are incapable? (like Netflix, lmao)

What matters are the ones that can do it, and you even said they've done it at "a fraction of the cost".

Paraphrasing, your argument says more about the incompetence of the ESA than the impossibility of doing such thing.

> Not every cost is fungible and money isn't always the limiting factor

Sure. This isn’t relevant to Netflix.

It is. The fact that 'streaming is a solved problem' has no bearing on any one company's ability to do it at scale. Solved problem means merely you don't have to invent something new, not that it is easy or within reach of everyone.