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>>11061822
This, the average tanker or cargo ship is the size of a US aircraft carrier, or substantially larger than the average aircraft carrier, yet products are comparatively cheap worldwide. They're a great example of economies of scale reducing costs, and ideally as soon as possible Elon should find out the maximum possible size for a Metha/LOX burning rocket and make that the next iteration of Starship. Such a large vehicle would end up looking more like an Orion ship, some kind of fat truncated cone or bullet rather than the long tower like rockets that fly now.