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Peter Thiel: Elon Musk has given up on Mars

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27 points elsewhen | 2 comments | 28 Jun 25 16:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.74s | source
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melling ◴[28 Jun 25 16:31 UTC] No.44405972[source]▶
Doesn’t science need to progress more before it’s economically viable?

We got to the moon 50 years ago and still haven’t been back. It’s expensive to send humans into space.

Let’s get those Tesla robots to Mars… and Titan

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bigyabai ◴[28 Jun 25 16:40 UTC] No.44406047[source]▶
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.
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1. miga ◴[28 Jun 25 18:28 UTC] No.44406958[source]▶
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.

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2. dzhiurgis ◴[29 Jun 25 03:05 UTC] No.44410045[source]▶
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.