• TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    That’s what Starship is for. A giant, cheap, stainless steel space truck built by blue collar welders that will vomit out hundreds of them before returning to Earth intact to pick up some more.

    The whole Mars thing is just for PR. He has a different use for it. That thing ain’t ever making it to Mars.

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        11 months ago

        Cryo boiloff for long duration missions hasn’t been solved, for one. Have you seen how much it vents just sitting on the pad?

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          11 months ago

          Fair enough. Starship is still in its infancy though so I wouldn’t completely give up hope yet.

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            11 months ago

            Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to be proven wrong and see it succeed, but it takes a LOT more than welding together a steel soda can with engines to get there.

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        11 months ago

        You have yet to actually provide any counter points other than plugging your ears and saying “Nu uh!”

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            11 months ago

            Apparently you don’t know how to have a conversation… Doing a quick search it seems like Starlink is around the break even point for operating costs and revenue, so if you’d like to provide sources to refute that, that’d be great.