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It seems like you're unironically saying "isn't enough to launch whole new industries" in the same moment that SpaceX is averaging about a launch every week or
by fapjacks 6y ago
It seems like you're unironically saying "isn't enough to launch whole new industries" in the same moment that SpaceX is averaging about a launch every week or two (one tomorrow, another 07APR) with a backlog of customers? You could add a layer of abstraction and it would be approximately the same thing people were saying about private launch companies in the 90s.
- TedDoesntTalk 6y agoSpaceX’s backlog of customers has nothing to do with Mars. What makes you think a customer who, for example, wants to put a few cubesats into earth orbit has any interest in Mars?
- fapjacks 6y agoThis backlog of customers are the ones that unimaginative naysayers were talking about in the 90s when they said there would be no commercial interest in a private launch industry. Just because you can't see a commercial opportunity in getting things to Mars doesn't mean those opportunities don't or won't exist.