Man, that original idea still gets me hyped too — feels like we're getting sidetracked from the coolest sci-fi future.

REM consciousness transfer can have you standing in a room in London in seconds, no matter where you are coming from. The truth is they dont really want plebs in London in the first place.

I wonder if you'd have to go into space for that.

asteroid mining lol. gm sir

Never gone a have a moon base either lol

Sell the sizzle not the steak.

Look man, no joke!

We already had Concorde in the 70s that was the same thing. I think it was around two hours.

I'd say both goals are well within the range of SpaceX's mission. Not trying to be an Elon simp (I don't like OR dislike the guy) but ultimately, the operations of SpaceX are definitely a multi-faceted mission. Plus, if we start putting AI data centers into space, then it takes up fewer resources o...

A charitable read is that getting regulatory approval to launch civilians on basically missiles across borders with tech everyone thought was absurd would bankrupt the company just in wait time. And the market for people willing and healthy enough and who could afford the ticket on the rocket is pr...

Would you ride starship knowing that crazy maneuver it has to perform to land? Or would you rather take a commercial flight?

Its not an airplane but auctually a reusable rocket that theyr still developing and still plan on transporting people earth to earth. Once developed will basically 10x the payload to orbit capabilities for humans. They did test flight not even a week ago. Rocket flew from boca chica Texas and ge...

transcontinental travel was always a downstream application of Starship, not a separate aircraft project. the same vehicle that goes to space is what would do point-to-point transport - they're just prioritizing the orbital capability first. you can't fly something that doesn't exist yet.