/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11238449
>This technology can be built today with technology that is not developmental to deliver any human being from any place on planet Earth to any other place in less than an hour
Yes? That's literally just Starship point to point. Elon's pitching it as an alternative to long haul flights. Putting troops on a missile has been a vaguely feasible concept since Redstone.

>>11156420
Well, they're building the rockets right now, and SpaceX basically dominated the last Mars Society conference with calls for habitat and community designs. They're working with NASA on orbital propellant transfer and plan to fund it by launching tens of thousands of internet satellites, which they've already started doing and expect to offer service sometime next year. As long as everything keeps coming up Musk, you might still be working age (40s / early 50s) when buying a ticket becomes viable.

Or a Starship will explode with 100 people on it and the President will ban space forever. Or we'll all be dead before we can leave this god forsaken rock. Y'know. Reality is probably somewhere in the middle.

The dark horse is Blue Origin – you probably haven't heard of them, but Jeff Bezos (yes, Amazon founder, richest man in the world, etc) is also in the space game. Blue Origin moves slower, and is focused on the Moon, but has the mission statement of moving all our industry off-planet and unironically turning Earth into a nature preserve. It sounds insane, but Jeff Bezos has more money than most small countries.

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