Starship is still not understood

Re:Starship is still not understood by Cthulhu_ on Thursday October 28, 2021 @10:41AM (#29026647)

I just can't see it happening. How many launches have there been in total since the first launch of anything in space? I can't see it being much more than 10K, and it's definitely in that order of magnitude.

There's just not enough raw materials and fuel for that amount of launches, and environmental objections will catch up with them long before that.

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Re:Starship is still not understood by Dylan16807 on Thursday October 28, 2021 @01:53PM (#29028958)

There's not enough aluminum and steel?

There's not enough oxygen? Hydrogen? We can make renewable methane just fine.

Even if we used oil a quick calculation says that 1000 tons * 10000 launches would barely break a tenth of a percent of our current semiannual oil use. I think that's an affordable impact for a truly massive mars campaign.

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