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Living space for a hundred people? Where are you getting that? Space for a 100 people on one of their planned 1hour trips to anywhere on the globe, sure, but th
by GW150914 8y ago
Living space for a hundred people? Where are you getting that? Space for a 100 people on one of their planned 1hour trips to anywhere on the globe, sure, but that’s decidedly not living space. Again, putting side the hype so many of you are desperate for, the use case is to bring the launch costs even further down below the Falcon Heavy, by bundling multiple payloads. Skimming some money with what would be astronomically expensive commuter flights that the private jet set will be thrilled to pay? Sure. A trip to Mars?
Well, thst requires a lot more than big rockets, and all of the downvotes and petulance in the world can’t change that. On the bright side, time will tell, and I’ll be sure to save this thread for future enjoyment. BFR, if it’s ever completed (it very well may be, it might not be) will be used almost exclusively for LEO; satellite launches, cargo runs, and ferrying people. The technology for people on Mars simply doesn’t exist yet, and trillions of R&D SpaceX has declared zero interest in, and no one else is doing is on the road to Mars.
For a group of supposed empiricists, rationality and skepticism seems to die where this topic is concerned. It’s frankly annoying.
- mikeash 8y agoThanks for confirming that I don’t want to have a conversation with you.
- GW150914 8y agoThanks for confirming that I don’t want to have a conversation with you. At no point have you been conversing in good faith to begin with, let’s not pretend that this is a new development. You clearly want to combine making outlandish claims (living space for 100 people? Yikes) with the freedom to be snarky and not have to support your claims in any way. It’s low effort, borderline Reddit behavior that someone with 7 years here should know better than to engage in.
- mikeash 8y ago40 cabins: https://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/making_life_multiplanetary-2017.pdf https://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/making_life_multip... But what do I know, I’m just making low effort, bad faith, Reddit-style shitposts, not high-quality reality-based knowledge dumps like yours.