Hazegrayart: SpaceX Starship Mars Landing - Simulation

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"The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable."
Elon Musk

"An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us."
Elon Musk

"Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian".
Elon Musk

"Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement."
Elon Musk

"The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable."
Elon Musk

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"Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement."
Elon Musk

For which there is no market and whose flight is banned by many of the countries that would need to support it to make it financially viable.

Whereas Boeing's improvement came after over half a century of building, flying and refining aircraft that were actually in existence and desired by actual customers, rather than some vague idea. And, as all engineers know, getting the last 10% of performance out of something always takes much more time, effort and cash than the first 90%. The easy problems are always solved first leaving the intractable ones at the end.

So we're being asked to compare Elonfiction with demonstrated reality and believe that somehow the reality is what's lame.