A person with weapon made up of a wooden stick should be able to judge from mere experience and physics that a wooden stick, that it cannot take down a fighter jet.
Elon Musk s Starships are in scientific space terms a wooden stick.
The 9th, last attempt to launch a Starship also failed spectacularly after just 45 minutes due to basic mechanical and construction failures.
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250528-spacex-starship-rocket-mars
Mars is 140 million miles or 225 million kilometres from the earth.
https://www.nasa.gov/hrp/hazard-distance-from-earth/
The max speed of a Starship is theoretically 26,OOO kilometres per hour.
That means it needs two days to travel one million kilometres.
It will need nearly two years to get to Mars.
To colonize Mars, a Starship needs to be not just mechanically super robust with special heat proof material but equipped with the most powerful engines and sophisticaed navigation systems as well as containing storage space for supplies etc
However, so far the Starship s test launches have mostly been almost instant, spectacular failures because of a variety of basic mechanical and other failures.
Any rational business person would surely conclude they need to invest billions in improving the design and technology of the Starship before they start mass production.
That investment may cost 100s of billions. The research and engineering might take years. But that is the real world.
To build 1000 of these Starships a year burning through billions of dollars and to keep laucnching lots of them every day in the hope one or two get to Mars by random chance and accident could be interpreted as a sign Elon Musk has gone mad.
Yet that is what he plans to do, according to media....
As the chief of SpaceX, it appears Elon Musk can misallocate his money, burn through 100s of billions without any consequences.
But his reputation as a semi intelligent and serious person, let alone a genius, has been irreparably damaged by his decision to use such a primtiive, hit and miss approch to the complex, scientific problem of designing a space vehicle, which is actually capable of getting to the moon, let alone Mars.
Physics, electronic and mechanical engineering are not random. Principles underpin them which must be mastered.
From media
SpaceX is betting that its "fail fast, learn fast" ethos, which helped it dominate commercial spaceflight, will once again pay off.
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250528-spacex-starship-rocket-mars
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/05/30/musk-vows-construct-biggest-building-world-store-rockets/
SpaceX will build the “biggest structure in the world” to house up to 1,000 of its 400ft-tall Starship rockets per year, Elon Musk has claimed.
The Tesla billionaire and world’s richest man laid out his vision for “making life multiplanetary” in an update at SpaceX’s Starbase in Texas.
Speaking to staff last night, Mr Musk said the company planned to build a “gigabay”, which he said would be “a truly enormous structure”.
He said the building, designed for 1,000 Starships per year, would be “by some measures the biggest structure in the world”.
The first so-called gigabay would be built in Texas, with a further facility in Florida as SpaceX seeks to launch multiple rockets per day in order to reach and colonise Mars.
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