> it doesn't really matter why they're doing it. I disagree with that. Why they are doing what they are doing is very important. Elon is a set of flaws walkin

> it doesn't really matter why they're doing it. I disagree with that. Why they are doing what they are doing is very important. Elon is a set of flaws walking on two legs but his plans make sense: Humanity has all their eggs in one basket by being a single planet species. To change that we need to make space travel much, much cheaper than it was. To do that we need reusable and economical spacecrafts. He works alongside this plan. Branson made people build him the adult version of a coin operated mall kiddie ride. You give it money and it shakes you around and later you can tell people that you are now an astronaut. Two people, both have a ton of money and both used some of their wealth to assemble a team to build a spacecraft. The difference between them is the “why” they did this. One if suceeds has changed the history of humankind. If he fails at the grand goal misserably he still made a vastly succesfull space company. The other if he succeeds has a funfair ride with bragging rights. Meh. The why is all that matters, because it affects the how and the what fundamentally.