Wrong. The goal is to make money. Billions of dollars. That money is to help fund Mars colonization, which has been SpaceX's ultimate goal from the beginning.

Wrong. The goal is to make money. Billions of dollars. That money is to help fund Mars colonization, which has been SpaceX's ultimate goal from the beginning. There's also some nice synergy in that similar tech can be used to deploy a global communications network for Mars as well.