Wait till he finds out he's the cook, the dishwasher, the maid etc etc
All this expense to collect few martian rocks 😂
There is no air to breathe on mars, temps are extremely hostile to humans, and no water to grow crops.
The money will be much better spent on making planet earth a better place.
What is the driving idea between using a large number of small engines over a small number of large engines? Wouldn’t that increase the statistical number of failure points?
re: the headline - I’m sure a DEI hire would’ve thought of that...
*eyeroll*
The vanes on those airfoils are startling.
This is all I can think of when envisioning living on marsEVERY TIME SOMEONE SAYS DEGRADING THINGS ABOUT MUSK:
I ASK THEM:
“YOU REALLY WANT TO BAD MOUTH A GUY WHO CAN SEND UP A ROCKET & THEN HIS EQUIPMENT CAN CATCH THE BOOSTER “WITH OPEN ARMS” FOR REUSE???” REALLY?????
HOW MANY SUCH BOOSTERS DID NASA DUMP INTO THE OCEANS?
HOW MUCH POLLUTION WAS THAT???
Mars? We can’t even make it to the moon without a studio 🎥
These booster updates are not related to the recent failures of the second stage.
So with larger fins, the rocket now looks like a ‘59 Cadillac.
Musk:
Slight chance of Starship flight to Mars crewed by Optimus in Nov/Dec next year. A lot needs to go right fort hat.
More likely, first flight without humans in ~3.5 years, next flight ~5.5 years with humans
Mars city self-sustaining in 20-30 years
Pictured is artist concept of Starship v3 not yet built, but Starbase is working to get everything built for v3 after Ship 36 failure, which failure enabled them to get started right away.
About the “rationale” for doing all this.
Even if no large object (asteroid, comet, etc) ever hits the Earth, that large ball of heat and light in the sky, also known as the Sun, will eventually expand, and we humans will have to be elsewhere.
Musk talks about consciousness being multi-planetary, so that all that we are and have done is not lost.
And yes, yes, I know that God is good and God is great. I do not pretend to know all of God’s plan. Friends and family state that long before the Sun expands, we will all be called home. Perhaps. In the meantime, God gave us this IMMENSE curiosity, and the ability to increase our individual and collective abilities to push forward.
Mars is just the first logical step. We will build large and small space stations in our Solar System. Living and mining in the asteroid belt is a no brainer. People have mentioned Titan. Titan is basically a gas station. On Titan there are oceans of hydrocarbons. It rains hydrocarbons.