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> 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 h
by 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.