Not that much risk with just going straight up and falling back in an oversized bottle rocket. I’d do it. LEO and beyond is a different story.
Also I think Musk’s plan may have been to send indentured servants on a one way colonization trip, I don’t remember him actually saying he himself will be going. The oligarchs are starting to eyeball the unfathomable wealth scattered through the solar system as Earth gets squeezed dry. Get ready now for the classic robber barons, but now iiiiinnn spaaaaaace.
Not that much risk with just going straight up and falling back in an oversized bottle rocket. I’d do it. LEO and beyond is a different story.
Also I think Musk’s plan may have been to send indentured servants on a one way colonization trip, I don’t remember him actually saying he himself will be going. The oligarchs are starting to eyeball the unfathomable wealth scattered through the solar system as Earth gets squeezed dry. Get ready now for the classic robber barons, but now iiiiinnn spaaaaaace.
FWIW, he has said he wants to “die on Mars”.
What an idiot. Mars fucking sucks. It’s an inhospitable desert world.
Oh well, then who am I to argue? Let’s hope for an engine failure on landing then…
How do we speed that wish up for him?