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Re:SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System by avenueevergreen on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @01:52PM (#12591504)
Ambitious, but it feels like science fiction right now. The principles seem reasonable, but we have no reason to believe that SpaceX is capable of pulling this off in the foreseeable future. We'll see if Musk can convincingly explain it in his speech in 40 minutes.

Also interesting to note how close fan speculation actually got to the truth: http://imgur.com/a/87OOT

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Re:SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System by grecy on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @02:23PM (#12591743)
> but we have no reason to believe that SpaceX is capable of pulling this off in the foreseeable future

Based on what they've achieved so far, I see no reason to believe they are not capable.

It's been their goal since day one, so it seems they will go after it as hard as they went after their achievements to date, which has far surpassed expectations.

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