Comments by "ke6gwf - Ben Blackburn" (@ke6gwf) on "" video.

@steveaustin2686 so, you are saying that it would cost about the same for Starship to launch SLS and the launch tower to Leo, as it does to launch SLS itself? Lol
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@steveaustin2686 you realize that when lunar Starship gets to lunar orbit, it will be met by a fuel tanker Starship to refuel it, so it can be reused, right? So might as well send a Crew Starship as well, as long as you are building crew certified Starships. Even if NASA doesn't trust them for earth launch or landing, you can shuttle from the moon to LEO, and then dock with Crew Dragon for launch and recovery. So not really ANY need for SLS. And, if NASA trusts Starship to land humans on the moon and then take off again, how is that any less risky than taking off from Florida with humans in it? Once SpaceX got their foot in HLS, SLS is pretty much doomed once Starship starts flying successfully, because if NASA is trusting it on the moon, not much excuse not to trust it on the earth as well, especially after civilian crews start launching on it for space raves or whatever. That's why they want to put as much money into SLS this budget cycle, because they know the flow of pork is threatened by SpaceX. Lol
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@steveaustin2686 it's partly a joke because the cost of SLS keeps exponentially increasing, so by the time it actually launches it might be $8B, and also by the time SLS actually launches, the cost to launch Starship should be well below the figures you used, and so both combined means it's possible it could be about the same cost. But I was being funny, so don't try to cross check my math! Lol
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@trololoev so his landing and reusing rockets has failed, and Starlink has failed, and Crew Dragon has failed, and I could go on, or do you prefer to ignore all the amazing successes he has had?
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@trololoev Starship and Starlink is what all the talent at SpaceX is focused on achieving, so if they could achieve all the current SpaceX milestones, why can't they achieve Starship? It's not only Elon working on it himself, he hires the smartest engineers.
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@trololoev you realize that Elon has nothing to do with Hyperloop right? He wrote an idea about it years ago. People like Richard Branson are the ones trying to build it. So your claim has no relevance, and your claim about Starship is just as baseless. It's what everyone says about any project Elon builds, just before it succeeds lol
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@trololoev sorry, but I have not heard Elon mention anything about Hyperloop for years, and he's never put any work into it. Tesla energy is doing great, Tesla purchased Solar City and it's still installing equipment. The Semi is not failed, it's delayed, but you will have to wait to see that I am correct. The only issues they are having with Powerwalls is that they can't make them fast enough to sell to all the customers who want them, and that's because battery suppliers are not making batteries fast enough. That's not a failure! Lol And the solar roof is getting installed as fast as they can make them, and gradually increasing in volume. Also not a failure. Neuralink is just barely getting started, and about ready for human testing, so I don't know how you can say it failed. But, if you are going to say that Starship will fail just like Powerwall failed, I guess I can accept that, because it means that Starship will be popular and in high demand too!
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