Emirates’ Tim Clark says Boeing ‘not getting it’ on 737 Max, 787

Re:Emirates’ Tim Clark says Boeing ‘not getting it’ on 737 M... by Gene_Parmesan on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @07:27PM (#26418537)

> Judging from their public comments, SpaceX is hoping to get 3 launches per day from each Starship, and is hoping to produce hundreds of starships per year. Which means that after a few years, they intend to get to more orbital launches per day than we have had orbital launches in all of human history.

This sort of talk has always seemed to be really infeasible to the point of being nonsensical. What could possibly drive the need for 6000 orbital launches per day? Where are the fuel resources going to come from?

This sort of pie-in-the-sky thinking I don't find motivating at all, I just find it to be so excessive that I have no choice but to immediately dismiss it.

The double-standard with eco-consciousness gets me too. Green cars, green home power, green everything... but 6000 orbital launches per day. What?

I'm not trying to be a SpaceX hater - although I admit to being very sick of the Musk fanboyism - I just genuinely don't understand where these claims are coming from.

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Re:Emirates’ Tim Clark says Boeing ‘not getting it’ on 737 M... by btilly on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @10:41PM (#26419923)

SpaceX is operating on the theory that if you build it, they will come.

That said, rapid delivery of materials from one spot on Earth to another is inherently valuable. I'm sure that most of their flights will actually be suborbital instead. As in point to point travel between two places on Earth. The ability to do transcontinental trips in an average of 30 minutes is of interest to a lot of people, and doing so with physical packages is acceptable at higher risk than doing so with humans.

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