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With SpaceX, colonizing Mars is the passion / prestige project. Elon and his people are extraordinarily good at finding ways to make all the dependent sub-proj
by timschmidt 3y ago
With SpaceX, colonizing Mars is the passion / prestige project. Elon and his people are extraordinarily good at finding ways to make all the dependent sub-projects profitable while working toward the larger goal. Which is as impressive as the engineering.
- kevin_thibedeau 3y agoMars colonization is not their business. Launching commercial payloads is. Everything else is just marketing.
- timschmidt 3y agoCynicism like this is tiring. To you, the moon landing must have been just marketing until Neil Armstrong stepped off the last ladder rung, but there was a decade of intense engineering effort leading up to that. You are seeing that intense engineering effort toward a Mars landing now. One does not build the largest and most powerful rocket ever constructed simply to deliver packages.
- soperj 3y ago> With SpaceX, colonizing Mars is the passion / prestige project. That's more just a out there goal to motivate people who are motivated by that. Still have had zero launches to Mars.
- timschmidt 3y agoCynicism like this is tiring. To you, the moon landing must have been just marketing until Neil Armstrong stepped off the last ladder rung, but there was a decade of intense engineering effort leading up to that. You are seeing that intense engineering effort toward a Mars landing now. One does not build the largest and most powerful rocket ever constructed simply to deliver packages.