>>12405717forget about the space elevator, 100% popsci. Starship will get close to 100/kg and theres no real way to know if the space elevator will make sense, what can be known is that the cost to build it not including R&D is more than all the rockets that will be launched in the XXI century times 100 million. In addition to that, in order for it to be safe it has to have a perfect safety record, perfect meaning that it won't fail not even once until the end of time, if it fails, on average once every 10 million years, its automatically worse than anything else as the damage it would cause would be unsormauntable.
this is a science thread not a mental retardation one
