Awesome.
I would imagine carrying folding ground stabilizers like the falcon has would be prohibitively heavy for the mission
I think the plan is to eventually fly these things more than once a day, the arms will slowly lower the booster back onto the pad so it can make a relatively quick turn around. I doubt that's going to happen anytime soon but all of these Starship flights are test flights/proof of concept tests. Have you heard about the US Space Force vs the California Coastal Commision? The Space Force currently has permission to launch 36 SpaceX rockets from Vandenberg, CA per year and they want to increase that number to 50 launches per year, the CCC put out a letter stating they will not allow the launches citing concerns about Musk's support of Trump as a reason. The commission is all appointed, not elected, bureaucrats that are supposed to concern themselves with protecting the coastline, and they're mad at Musk because they feel he's overstepping his bounds when he says he supports Trump. I've had conversations with folks that have actually dealt with these idiots and it's nearly impossible to get anything done once they get involved. Susanne Somers and her husband lived in Malibu for over 30 years in a relatively small, modest house on the beach and when the wildfires came through it was reduced to ashes. When they tried to apply for permits to just build the exact same house in the exact same spot the CCC said nope. They fought it for a couple of years and then finally gave up and moved to Palm Springs. This is the sort of nonsense that has wealthy Californians leaving in droves.
Not just his profession, life as he knows it.
Sure. We’re still not getting anywhere close to an expanse vision of space based society with chemical fuelled rockets.
I'm unsure about your sentiment. Do you think deep down that you were born 400 years too early and it irks you currently?
Just one component on our way to understanding our position in this universe. You and I are on the same page for taking care of our home planet, but for me it's por que no los dos?
I’m not saying don’t do it. I’m just saying that the pretense that we’re anything other than a sci fi book type quantum leap forward in tech from becoming well and truly spacefaring, is silly.
We're indeed a looong ways off from about any sci-fi book/movie about being a space faring species. Elon has plenty of hyperbole about the next couple of decades.
I was told there would be warp engines. I’m still waiting for the warp engines.
