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E2E rocket travel is absolutely not realistic and will never happen in the next century or so. Also it will not be 30 minutes from actual city to actual city a
by Yizahi 4y ago
E2E rocket travel is absolutely not realistic and will never happen in the next century or so.
Also it will not be 30 minutes from actual city to actual city and it will not be a first class price ticket (10-20k) for that, but actually more like x10 times higher. And that IF Elon's fantasy Starship price of 2mil/launch happens. If actual launch price will be 20 mil, then this theoretical E2E ticket will be x100 times more expensive than fist class ticket.
And that not even mentioning several dozen independently blocker issues to this zany idea. How come people still repeat it on the tech site?
- btilly 4y agoYou're stating an absolute impossibility for point to point rockets, but offer no reasons for your claim. I well remember rocket experts explaining why reuse of first stage boosters couldn't work. That it had been tried a bunch of times and you wound up reusing but without being able to contribute to the payload. Then Elon made an insane sounding suicide slam burn. And he made that reuse routine. Now to your claim. Elon's "fantasy" is that a rocket launch and turnaround can be made on relatively similar economics to airplane launches. If so, the cost of launch is $1 million, not $2 million. And so charging $2 million is adding headroom for things like accidents, depreciation and profit margins. It is ambitious to be sure. But based on the materials cost, this doesn't look like a fantasy.