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Wouldn't that reduce CO2 emissions by ~20% overnight? Natural gas is extremely cheap and doesn't create huge amounts of particulate pollution like coal. Why hasn't this happened yet?

>>9732467

>>9670025
Mars colonies are a meme (having kids in 0.3g = not possible) from one of the most dishonest companies in the history of private space travel. Seriously each launch following the Falcon family as they “revolutionize the launch industry” has been indistinguishable from the rest. Aside from the meme landings, the company’s only party trick has been to overwork and underpay its employees to reduce launch costs, all to make the mythical “full and rapid reuse” seem effective.

Perhaps the die was cast when Musk vetoed the idea of ambitious yet realistic missions like Red and Grey Dragon; he made sure the company would never be mistaken for an innovative force to anything or anybody, just ridiculously questionable government contracts for his companies. SpaceX might be profitable (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-NASA in its refusal of wonder, science and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>a-at least the landings are cool though
"No!"
The camerawork is dreadful; the landings of the charred boosters are boring. As I watch, I noticed that every time a Falcon 9 lands, Musk said either “self-sustaining civilization on Mars” or “imagine if you had a 747 and you threw it away after one flight.”

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time one of those phrases was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Musk's mind is so governed by clichés that he has no other style of thinking. Later I read a poorly-written news story on SpaceX by some fat web blogger. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are watching these launches now, surely they will work for SpaceX in the future and they too can have paychecks based off of government handouts." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you are a SpaceX fan, you are, in fact, trained to be a mindless supporter of government-funded billionaires.

Musk boios REKT!
As Niel said, only goverments can get us to another plantes! BFR GTFO SLS FTW!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTEIbWy8AvY

>>9541304
>What about CRS 7?
>>It’s defects and changes which cause failures.
>>defects
>quoting everything except the answer to your question

>all these soyboys
>reddit tier screaming
>burger clapping

I want John Assburger and the readiness poll and whatever. I want reddit to LEAVE

>>9010076
Like the last post in that thread says, "Fuck this hater thread". The other thread doesn't even say "spacex" in the catalog, it has a fucking blank in it. ULA shills can keep their shit thread.

>we don't need 5+ spacex threads up at one time
Which threads would those be? I only see two, plus another one bitching about Elon's Mars plans.

>>9010081
>>one of these launchers has landed and re-flown five times in a row
Babby flights that didn't have a payload or even go sideways. Fucking ezmode.

>>9008125
But then how would you get the booster back down for reuse?

>>8954800
Hi, Jeff!

>>8601055
>some faggot took that picture with a potato
At least that rare Elon could be meme-worthy even if it is fuzzy as leftovers in the back of a fridge.