@GhostOnTheHalfShell

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.

@n_dimension

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

@GhostOnTheHalfShell

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?

@n_dimension

With regard to humanity’s progress being retarded, I would like to propose that the entire effort is a miss allocation of human effort of money of resources and human talent to pursue a goal that is not relevant to the most important things we need to address. But if we were to talk about advancing Space Travel, I would like to suggest that the approach of the project is also misconceived