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but the prototype suffered significant damage.
More like "was blown to pieces and whatever remained burned in fire"
In the long term, SpaceX plans to send 1,000–2,000 ships to Mars every two years
For comparison, ever since Gagarin flight in 1961, there was 398 crewed launches into space.
Their lies rely on people not realizing they are lies.
Elon's companies are the epitome of the hype-cycle-based stock market manipulation. Take something somewhat useful (EVs, self-driving cars, reusable rockets, ...), spend a bunch of VC cash on building an MVP and advertising, make that advertising overpromise every feature by 300% and just send it. People will buy the stock because of the hype, then buy the product (if applicable) because they own the stock, then be forced to "still like the truck tho"/"COLONIZE MARS" for years, regardless of the actual quality (or lack thereof) of the product, because otherwise their stocks might go down.
Exactly. Hype based capital investment.
it's predicated on the fact that if people believe it line go up so people believe
Right, I make that (using the lowest figure) over 40 launches per month, every month for the 2 years. Anyone who thinks that is plausible is a tad optimistic.
That is 6.2 per year on average.
Good job SpaceTwitter! This is way more efficient than launching it first!
And probably better for the environment, unless it was full of fuel already
SPACE TOURISM
Physics has had enough of those nazis
Physics has had enough of those nazis
Or sabotage by a brave anti-fascist SpaceX employee.
Shhh not that loud 🤫
The womp womp icon on my soundbar is task frozen after repeated clicks
Well. Building spaceships is not easy.