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Re:SpaceX's giant Starship Mars rocket nails critical 10th t... by dylan604 on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @11:53AM (#45041351)
And is absolutely useless. Apollo 9-17 went to the moon with human occupants. All but one put men on the surface of the moon. They all returned to Earth with zero fatally exploding ships.

Not one of these triumphant 75% achievement in launch numbers would have had a surviving human. Apollo had 0 practice runs. Starship is nothing but practice runs. To equate the number of launches to something so drastically different is just an exercise in futility that I can only assume you're trolling

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Re:SpaceX's giant Starship Mars rocket nails critical 10th t... by anonymars on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @12:11PM (#45041592)
> Starship is already 75% of the way there and hasn't orbited once

Read it as "Starship is already 75% of the way to that cost and hasn't orbited once" (you seem to be in agreement)

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Re:SpaceX's giant Starship Mars rocket nails critical 10th t... by fluoridation on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @11:58AM (#45041420)
Dude, when did I say they were triumphant? SpaceX is burning taxpayer money sending empty coke cans on ballistic trajectories for no good reason. My whole point with this line of inquiry has been to point out what a useless waste of resources Starship has been so far.
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