I'm not at all a fan of Felon Muscovite
But the cost of Boeing starlifter is between 2.5 to 3.5 billion for a single use vehicle.
Meanwhile, SpaceX Delta rockets do over 100+ orbital flights a year and the Spaceship is well on the way to full reusability...
...in no small part because Felon is only a figurehead.
The great success of SpaceX has been the falcon nine I think.
Let’s put it this way, the heavy lift vehicle went up into space completed its job and the world can move on.
Everything I’ve seen about his starship is litany of jokes. The payload continues to shrink with every iteration, even though he makes the thing bigger the biggest payload he’s managed so far is a banana and a low earth orbit, and the banana didn’t survive because the ship crashed on reentry
Every time his Nazi rocket blows up I have mixed feelings.
On one hand, humanity progress is retarded.
On the other, Nazi rocket progress is retarded.
I am hopeful that the rumours about human ARV (Alien Reverse engineered vehicles) are true and Musk is just chasing a tech dead end.
You are right about Falcon, Delta was retired in 2024, I think I stopped being a Musk fan when his anti-Trans and anti-Woke hate became obvious...2022?
The man is such a uniformly loathsome personality that they have a choice of things to lose any patience over.
If you have a sampling of all the other jokes that he’s engaged in, hyper loop is the most widely known, he long ago went into the category of evil shyster.
The fact that anyone is willing to invest a dime in his schemes, just speaks to the perversity of the current economy
I agree with your first and last paragraph implicitly.
As to the middle, I am reminded of an adage by an Atari boss who said;
"For beautiful flowers to grow, you need a lot of bullshit"
Not a fan of "Move fast and break things" at all.
But we are certainly getting a lot of expensive bullshit from Felon Muscovite 😁
Yeah, we see the middle part in very different ways. I think of it more as toxic waste and I would rather have NASA and publicly funded science than that asshole
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