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Marketing of that product is awesome. But does it scale? Very unlikely! That's great to have impossible goals to make people dream, but stop bullshitting people

Marketing of that product is awesome. But does it scale? Very unlikely! That's great to have impossible goals to make people dream, but stop bullshitting people saying it will replace commercial airplanes and everybody will be an astronaut for the same price. Why is the Concorde not in service anymore? Simple: it was a very little market, over-polluting for over-privileged and we do not need that to enhance traveling, we already tried! How would this BFR be different?

nickik 9y ago
The Concorde was one airplane. Its not like we have tried every possible way of increasing travel speed. They will build this rocket anyway, the will have to make it reusable anyway. All they did is consider using it as a transporter for people on earth. Its just one way the can potentially make money with this technology. Does not hurt to try. No reason to shit on the idea and claim its some absurd fantasy.
- jeandejean 9y ago
  Well my bad, all I did was clicking on the link, I made a lot of assumptions on what they intended to do with that. Indeed it doesn't hurt to try!
caio1982 9y ago
Musk didn't say it would replace regular planes nor we would all be astronauts, that's just you saying it. Also, his talk was about 43min long and only the very last "slide" and couple of minutes discussed the why-nots of reusing BFR for local transportation, because technically it is possible.
- jeandejean 9y ago
  Well I just watched the video, it clearly imagine a world where you could fly BFR like airplanes... I don't see how it would be accessible to the mass, therefore it's a niche product for the very rich, no big deal!
  - pps 9y ago
    https://www.instagram.com/p/BZnVfWxgdLe/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BZnVfWxgdLe/ "Cost per seat should be about the same as full fare economy in an aircraft. Forgot to mention that."
averagewall 9y ago
It didn't shut down because the passengers were too privileged nor because it was too polluting. What's next to go? Ferrari and Rolls Royce hit all your criteria for a transport failure too.

nickik 9y ago

The Concorde was one airplane. Its not like we have tried every possible way of increasing travel speed. They will build this rocket anyway, the will have to make it reusable anyway. All they did is consider using it as a transporter for people on earth. Its just one way the can potentially make money with this technology. Does not hurt to try. No reason to shit on the idea and claim its some absurd fantasy.

jeandejean 9y ago
Well my bad, all I did was clicking on the link, I made a lot of assumptions on what they intended to do with that. Indeed it doesn't hurt to try!

caio1982 9y ago

Musk didn't say it would replace regular planes nor we would all be astronauts, that's just you saying it. Also, his talk was about 43min long and only the very last "slide" and couple of minutes discussed the why-nots of reusing BFR for local transportation, because technically it is possible.

jeandejean 9y ago
Well I just watched the video, it clearly imagine a world where you could fly BFR like airplanes... I don't see how it would be accessible to the mass, therefore it's a niche product for the very rich, no big deal!
- pps 9y ago
  https://www.instagram.com/p/BZnVfWxgdLe/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BZnVfWxgdLe/ "Cost per seat should be about the same as full fare economy in an aircraft. Forgot to mention that."

averagewall 9y ago

It didn't shut down because the passengers were too privileged nor because it was too polluting. What's next to go? Ferrari and Rolls Royce hit all your criteria for a transport failure too.