
Rodriguez Jason
550 posts







When you say let SpaceX focus on transportation and others develop Mars infrastructure, you have to pick "others" who are at least going to try to build stuff that aligns with the goal of sending a million tons at a few hundred dollars per kg. Otherwise SpaceX will do it themselves. Habs and rovers and power systems that cost $100,000/kg are beyond useless for their goals.










Our future. Starship will make us multi planetary






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