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> If they don’t intend to fly to Mars why they are spending immense capital on the Super Heavy? Because they think it’ll be more profitable than what they have

by p_j_w 3y ago

> If they don’t intend to fly to Mars why they are spending immense capital on the Super Heavy? Because they think it’ll be more profitable than what they have now.

kranke155 3y ago
Why invest so much? Profitable how? In what way? It’s a gigantic expenditure of company capital, and afaik there is no obvious need for it.
- p_j_w 3y ago
  I don’t have the answers, but it’s a for profit company. Until they can show otherwise, there’s no reason to believe it’s anything but PR. They currently can’t show anything except transit. Nothing for life support for a human to survive a trip to Mars orbit let alone a colonization mission. They haven’t shown their claims to be viable at all. Musk’s claims to using SpaceX to colonize Mars have as much evidence backing them as his claims to using The Boring Company to build a hyperloop: none.
  - housemusicfan 3y ago
    In the early part of the last century, people said Tesla was a charlatan, an insane madman whose claims weren't viable at all.
    - qbrass 3y ago
      In the early part of the last century, they weren't exactly wrong.
  - kcplate 3y ago
    It took SpaceX 6 years from conception to its first successful launch, then another couple of years to start regular launches of the falcon platform. Now, I pretty much can watch Spacex rockets launch pretty much every week from my backyard. Your argument that a for profit company would only do this for PR is odd. SpaceX doesn’t need to spend this capital for PR. What PR does the company actually need? Right now they are then only western space platform capable of reliably delivering passengers and supplies to and from the ISS.
    - kranke155 3y ago
      Right now what’s being shared is little more than a conspiracy theory “SpaceX is building Super Heavy for PR” has as much credence as UFO kidnappings. OP wants it to be that way so it must be that way. That’s the only way I can read this insistence and the lack of evidence pointing towards it. If OP was saying “Starship is being build to carry the Roswell alien bodies back to the dark side of the moon” the amount of evidence indicating this would be similar, but no one would take OP seriously

by p_j_w 3y ago

> If they don’t intend to fly to Mars why they are spending immense capital on the Super Heavy? Because they think it’ll be more profitable than what they have now.

kranke155 3y ago

Why invest so much? Profitable how? In what way? It’s a gigantic expenditure of company capital, and afaik there is no obvious need for it.

p_j_w 3y ago
I don’t have the answers, but it’s a for profit company. Until they can show otherwise, there’s no reason to believe it’s anything but PR. They currently can’t show anything except transit. Nothing for life support for a human to survive a trip to Mars orbit let alone a colonization mission. They haven’t shown their claims to be viable at all. Musk’s claims to using SpaceX to colonize Mars have as much evidence backing them as his claims to using The Boring Company to build a hyperloop: none.
- housemusicfan 3y ago
  In the early part of the last century, people said Tesla was a charlatan, an insane madman whose claims weren't viable at all.
  - qbrass 3y ago
    In the early part of the last century, they weren't exactly wrong.
- kcplate 3y ago
  It took SpaceX 6 years from conception to its first successful launch, then another couple of years to start regular launches of the falcon platform. Now, I pretty much can watch Spacex rockets launch pretty much every week from my backyard. Your argument that a for profit company would only do this for PR is odd. SpaceX doesn’t need to spend this capital for PR. What PR does the company actually need? Right now they are then only western space platform capable of reliably delivering passengers and supplies to and from the ISS.
  - kranke155 3y ago
    Right now what’s being shared is little more than a conspiracy theory “SpaceX is building Super Heavy for PR” has as much credence as UFO kidnappings. OP wants it to be that way so it must be that way. That’s the only way I can read this insistence and the lack of evidence pointing towards it. If OP was saying “Starship is being build to carry the Roswell alien bodies back to the dark side of the moon” the amount of evidence indicating this would be similar, but no one would take OP seriously