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delichontoday at 2:41 PM1 replyview on HN

> After ULA won an $11 billion block buy contract from the US Air Force to launch high-value military payloads into the early 2020s, Musk sued in April 2014.

This guy is so visionary that he sued for an event that wouldn't happen for over six years. Having the prescience of Paul Atreides explains a lot of his success.


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terafloptoday at 3:09 PM

You're misreading that sentence. The contract was awarded for launches "into the 2020s". It wasn't awarded in the 2020s.