>>11751972Ghostbusters.
That's down a lot from $54,500/kg for the shuttle. (At least according to a random website.)
Good way to raise a bit of money doing space tourism as well. (As in, actually getting to the effectively zero G zone, rather than technically getting to "space" at 100km where the gravity is almost the same.)
I just checked on Quora and apparently a kg is now $1,700/kg on the Falcon Heavy 2R (2 boosters recoverable, core expended). Can carry 57 tonnes for $95 mill. Surely that'd be enough to set something up on Mars. Idk about the specifics of how much fuel in kg it takes to get back from Marsarino, and how good they could make the fuel (oxygen and methane, right?). Well Mars has CO_2 and H_2O, so why not make CH_4 (methane) that way?
If they're charging around $50 mill per visitor to the ISS, I guess they could scrape that dough quick, and Musk has his own reserves.
>>11751980I said good, not perfect, and I'm not a Musk cultist. What happened with Hype-rloop?
It looks from Wikipedia that it was done as an open-source suggestion and that there's some progress on it.
Mars is clearly the nigga's priority, whereas it reads to me like loop was a brain-flicker, so I don't think those are good comparisons. I think Paypal and Tesla are more relevant.
>>11751985Still cool. The ISS supposedly smells awful, but it's still cool. Frontiers are rough, but they're cool.
