>If those people don't believe in the whole thing, why are they members in a church about it?
Usually they inherit the religion from their parents. They grow up with the church as family so even if they don't believe in the tenets/beliefs they still participate.
Hah! It's totality overbuilt for a product that squeezes a bag of Juice! That being said the idea did work for Coffee: e.g Keurig; just not juice.
>it takes an engineer to make one that barely stands.
Engineers do not build bridges that barely stand.
They build bridges that they reason will stand for an amount of time in the conditions they predict the bridge will be subject to versus the cost required to build said bridge. They build realizing that no bridge will stand forever but it must stand for a specified amount of time.
Great production; watch a tear down of the Juicero product itself, it is a mechanical work of art.
Great potential; a SaaS for a fruit drink?
Lots of people love fruit drinks!
They can buy our packets of delicious pre-made juice,
people drinking juice is a huge Billion Dollar Market™!
Stupid Idea! You can just squeeze the juice out of the bag by hand, no fancy device needed. It is less convenient than pouring from a bottle!
Does it really taste better than the delicious organic juice you can buy at any grocery store in every city for a lower price?
Lets put one hundred and twenty million dollars behind it and find out.
Hahahahahahahahaha big swing and miss! Survey said? No.
You can of course have a great team with the smartest best credentialed people working on the idea motivated by tons of money.
If the idea is bad they still fail, maybe they can pivot, but probably not.
It's not really that surprising. At some point the established players ossify and are unable to innovate when the playing field changes.
A new thing comes along without this problem and dominates the new playing field. For Teamspeak and Ventrilo the field changed in that it became possible to host the voice servers themselves, rather than the 'customers' hosting.
Looks like your right. The US has:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_CH-53E_Super_Stallion... as its near equivalent with a external payload of 36,000 lb. The Russian helicopter carries 8000lbs more at 44,000lb, though Wikipedia doesn't say if this is an external or internal payload.
Looks like a 40ft shipping container weights around 8000lbs empty, couldn't find a stat on full. It seems such an operation would be outside the capacity of these helicopters. Sure they could comfortably lift empty containers, but probably not full ones.
You would probably need to be the US military. Once you have a setup onsite; helicopters, pilots, fuel, maintenance, crew to rig containers, you could rapidly unload the containers. Check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08K_aEajzNA
US Military is probably the only entity that could pull this off in a timely manner. At great cost of course...
Usually they inherit the religion from their parents. They grow up with the church as family so even if they don't believe in the tenets/beliefs they still participate.