alt Hacker NewsIf you are already mentioning rocket propulsion, then you should know that Gwen Shotwell foresees Starship flying E2E (point to point on Earth) flights with paying passengers, competing with airlines. One hour to anywhere on the planet.
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robotresearcher • last Wednesday at 1:49 AM
> One hour to anywhere on the planet.
Anywhere they can take off from, which is a decent distance from a population center. The last (forty?) mile problem bites again.
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mrguyorama • last Wednesday at 5:44 PM
Which is nonsense. Not only will rockets never have airplane reliability and safety for basic physics reasons, but that rocket profile looks exactly like an ICBM and nobody wants to let that confusion happen.
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Hopefully we discover some sort of gravity physics/tech that makes chemical rockets obsolete!
I don't see Starship being useful for civilian transport use cases, but for military operations sure! But there's not much to distinguish a starship from a nuke launch during a war, so it remains to be seen whether that risk is worth it.