"someone would have done it already" That sounds like a short version of an argument "nothing can happen for the first time, ever, because someone else would h

"someone would have done it already" That sounds like a short version of an argument "nothing can happen for the first time, ever, because someone else would have done it". Which is obviously nonsense. Also, this is not about technology per se. Why would anyone else build Starship first? People and organizations have objectives, including space organizations, and most of these objectives are perfectly solved by existing rockets. Musk is obsessed with making life multiplanetary, and that is a goal that cannot be achieved without high-turnover, cheap, reliable rockets. Given that he has money for that, he can afford making a high-risk bet on developing such a rocket. But NASA or Roskosmos or any other organization don't share that goal; they are happy launching satellites and astronauts to the ISS, and that can well be done without a decade-long project whose potential failure would be hard to explain to the taxpayers. Starship is intended for use cases that no one before even seriously entertained, much less was willing to finance.