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Starship is what you get when you invest tens and tens of billions into spacetravel with no expectation of profit or scientific gain.
It's pretty amazing, but I'm really hoping development will be finished before all the investors realize there is really no way to earn money from it. Starlink was an amazing scheme to extend the lifespan, so I'm sort of hoping there will be another trick to get more venture capital to burn.
It's actually quite good metaphor for scientific progress in general, since it can only work for as long as state will pour money into that. There is no quick profit or even no longterm but certain profit to be made out of there as of yet and most likely not for a loooong time.
And if the entirety of science fiction agrees on anything and should teach us something is that letting capitalism in space is very bad idea.
Their biggest investor, Nasa, already knows
Yeah, probably why they have a second lunar lander contract to Blue Origin.
Reminds me of when the internet became a thing and people were saying, there's no way to make money from this.
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