Peter Thiel: Elon Musk has given up on Mars

It's expensive to send anything into space, let alone make it to Mars. Chemical rockets are not cheap, even when you can recover the boosters and refurbish the engines. Comparatively, even visiting Mars makes a moon mission look like a cakewalk.

Let’s have that discussion about manned vs unmanned space flight again.

It’s been 11 years since HN thought manned was better.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8540279

Where’s the guy who told us crab fishing in Alaska is also dangerous?

Inventions of SpaceX made space trips much cheaper: https://spaceinsider.tech/2023/08/16/how-much-does-it-cost-t...

Now it reaches just 2k$ per kilogram.

Hotel I’m staying in Fiji is using starlink for about 30 rooms. It works incredibly well.

There’s a fiber there too, but I assume someone is so incompetent to make it reliable and affordable that a $500 dish is able to serve entire resort.