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No one would bet their money on an uneconomical plan to colonize Mars. He literally cried on 60 minutes when confronted with Aldrin's support of ULA. He hasnt,

No one would bet their money on an uneconomical plan to colonize Mars. He literally cried on 60 minutes when confronted with Aldrin's support of ULA. He hasnt, he’s betting money on rockets which are useful for highly lucrative activities, while talking aboutna currently far fetched vision of Martian colonization. Apparently though all it takes to disable the critical thinking of many is wanting to believe, and in your case, tears.

nickik 9y ago
Yesm yes, you are so smart and all us sheep who don't understand anything. If you knew even the first thing about the Space industry you would know that these sorts of rockets are super high risk and even now the demand for such rockets is highly questioned even should they manage to build it. There are really not so many "highly lucrative activities" even if they manage to achieve technical breakthroughs on rocket designed. Also, the rocket and space ship very clearly are designed around Mars, every design choice is informed by that. If he had wanted to make the most possible profitable rocket to do 'highly lucrative activities' he would have build a different rocket.
- QAPereo 9y ago
  Yesm yes, you are so smart and all us sheep who don't understand anything. ... if you knew even the first thing...
cromwellian 9y ago
The Space industry isn't very profitable unless you get Cost+ government contracts. The margins are terrible. SpaceX's profit margins are either negative, zero, or razor thin. If Musk wanted high ROI, he wouldn't have bet on SpaceX. He's obviously doing it not because it's easy money, but because he's interested in space as a hobby. The first think he tried to do with his PayPal money was to buy an ICBM to fly a greenhouse to Mars. Does that sound like something that's a good investment? I don't think you're convincing very many people that Musk is doing this for advertising purposes. What's next, Musk gives a space talk to middle school students, and you accuse him of trying to recruit cheap future employees?
- QAPereo 9y ago
  You can imagine him having the vision to bet on Mars colonies, but not asteroid mining?

nickik 9y ago

Yesm yes, you are so smart and all us sheep who don't understand anything. If you knew even the first thing about the Space industry you would know that these sorts of rockets are super high risk and even now the demand for such rockets is highly questioned even should they manage to build it. There are really not so many "highly lucrative activities" even if they manage to achieve technical breakthroughs on rocket designed. Also, the rocket and space ship very clearly are designed around Mars, every design choice is informed by that. If he had wanted to make the most possible profitable rocket to do 'highly lucrative activities' he would have build a different rocket.

QAPereo 9y ago
Yesm yes, you are so smart and all us sheep who don't understand anything. ... if you knew even the first thing...

cromwellian 9y ago

The Space industry isn't very profitable unless you get Cost+ government contracts. The margins are terrible. SpaceX's profit margins are either negative, zero, or razor thin. If Musk wanted high ROI, he wouldn't have bet on SpaceX. He's obviously doing it not because it's easy money, but because he's interested in space as a hobby. The first think he tried to do with his PayPal money was to buy an ICBM to fly a greenhouse to Mars. Does that sound like something that's a good investment? I don't think you're convincing very many people that Musk is doing this for advertising purposes. What's next, Musk gives a space talk to middle school students, and you accuse him of trying to recruit cheap future employees?

QAPereo 9y ago
You can imagine him having the vision to bet on Mars colonies, but not asteroid mining?