Their criticism is exactly that: there are so many unknowns that a comparison is useless.

The only thing I'm certain of is that you can't be certain of the costs enough to be comparative.

With so many unknowns, how on earth can you say "damn, starship is cost competitive with space elevators"?

There was at least one piece of the meteor that reached the ground and was found near El Sauz Texas

So you think Musk should have made up a word for it, like creativity-challenged automakers do?

It’s a marketing name. He is, much more than anything else, a salesman. He could have called it the Star Sphere, I suppose. Of course, that is also already a thing. Wombat? No, also already a thing.

You must find military aircraft names very frustrating.

And this is exactly why I think it's a stupid name. The word already existed, and it had a definition, and this does not fit it. It's kind of like designing a new airplane and calling it Flying Car.

Are yes, the American medium corgi

So it didn't in fact, in anynway, hit Texas. Which I suppose explains the complete lack of a giant crater which I found suspicious.

There is bad science reporting and then there is straight up lying.

Anyone located on the rock

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The meteor weighed about half a giraffe

They sell those at the Piggly Wiggly and they're call Baby Bacon Squeezes.

Just $12.99 for a 4 pack.

With so many unknowns, you seem quite certain in your criticism.

Ok. It’s probably me. It’s been a good five years since I saw it. I’ll rewatch it, it was entertaining

Perhaps they are special low-density baby elephant?

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I'm sorry but I need my measurements represented as percentages of a giraffe.

No. It is detached. Look at the sum of work over the last two years, most of it was always planned. He was saying they were a couple months away when they had scarcely fired any engines on super heavy. He claimed they were a couple months away before they even stacked it, which they had to do with a crane, because the launch tower wasn’t even done yet. That’s coming up on two years ago.

The physics doesn't have anything to do with finances. Until some actual engineering is done, there is no projected cost for this. There is no prototype design, or even a realistic concept design.

You don't know how often parts are going to need to be replaced, or how much it will cost to build initially, you don't even know what parts are going into it!

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That’s not detached. That’s the reality of rocket science. Delays are baked into the DNA of the process. At the very moment that he made his comments, they probably were a few months away, but then something broke, or the numbers stopped adding up, or something exploded. SpaceX is still the fastest moving launch company in the world even with the delays.

Because we know the physics of how an elevator will work and what sort of mass they could carry for how much energy. The actual development is the far future part but there’s been plenty of research.

Considering the arms lobby my money is on the X-Wing

Thats about $0.02 a gram wow

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