That will never work. You'll spend more time traveling to and from the remote launch facilities than you would flying conventionally from a nearby international airport. Destinations would also be severely limited by technology export laws; maybe it could be arranged for a handful of friendly nations / strategies allies like Japan or Australia, but most of the world would be scratched off the list.

When Shotwell and Musk talk about stuff like that or Mars colonies, they're hyping the company to attract more talent. If you loom at what they're actually building, it's all satellite launchers.

Someone downvoted you because you have hit a nerve. Don't mind those people.

I don't know, Dallas to Sydney is a 17 hour flight now. If it takes 30 minutes on a rocket from Texas you have 16 hours to do everything else and you'll still get there faster.

If that was just intended to forecast costs, then it’s a good analogy. But I thought SpaceX went further than that. This Adam Something video provides some amusing coverage of the idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQUiIdre-MI

I don't know what to tell you but that is basically the equivalent of a kickstarter scam.

This whole thread is wild.

> Person who sells snake oil speculates that snake oil cures cancer.

Reminder that the issue with snake oil was that most of it was counterfeit, not from the kind of snake that produced the oil with actual benefits.