Starship is a terrible idea and vehicle. The fact they keep trying to make the thing work is just because Musk is burning government funds. It has no chance of making it to the moon, let alone mars.
Anything can make progress if it’s within the realm of possibility and you throw enough resources at it.
My issue with Starship is that it’s not really good for any of the things Musk has promised it for. It’s a heavy lift rocket that has not yet proven capable of surviving flight. Best case it can be used to get materials up to space, but used as a lander or a long distance ship? No way. It’s just not designed that way. Too heavy, too unsafe, too inefficient, too complicated.
Anyone remember when he spent all his time talking about colonising mars? That was his big thing and the future. Whatever happened to that?
Then spacex got government funding. Now AI is the big thing.
I’ve still yet to see any of his great visions he’s actually delivered on.
He took all the money he was going to use to do that, put it in a duffelbag with
Xwritten on the side, and burned it.Isn’t something like that why Elon got in trouble with the Tesla board? Something about using Tesla as a bank to fund space x.
He’s one of those people who’ll pop around a corner and proclaim his credit of something he had next to no involvement in.
Notice he has never actually volunteered to go up in a SpaceX rocket. I don’t think he’ll be going to Mars.
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On the other hand, Starship is not fast enough, if I recall correctly, SpaceX claimed to Nasa that they’d be landing on the moon by now
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They do, but being slower than Orion to even get to the orbit is not a great look
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Starship is a terrible idea and vehicle. The fact they keep trying to make the thing work is just because Musk is burning government funds. It has no chance of making it to the moon, let alone mars.
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Anything can make progress if it’s within the realm of possibility and you throw enough resources at it.
My issue with Starship is that it’s not really good for any of the things Musk has promised it for. It’s a heavy lift rocket that has not yet proven capable of surviving flight. Best case it can be used to get materials up to space, but used as a lander or a long distance ship? No way. It’s just not designed that way. Too heavy, too unsafe, too inefficient, too complicated.
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SpaceX is a fucking trashfire too. The fact that NASA has contracts with them disturbs me greatly.