I think he has rocket company that needs more work.

Sufficient hype funds more work for his rocket company.

The more work they have the faster they can develop the systems to get to Mars. His pet project.

I really think it's that simple.

Starlink and Falcon 9 have been an excellent pairing, Falcon 9 partially reusable rockets created a lot launch capacity and starlink filled the demand. Starship if it meets its goals will create more launch fully reusable supply by orders of magnitude, but there is not the demand for all that launch capacity. Starlink can take some of it but probably not all so they need to find a customer to fill it in order to build up enough to have the volume to eventually colonize mars.

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bunderbunder 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Going to Mars is not a serious goal.

We can tell because it’s not being treated as a serious goal. 100% of the focus is on the big vroom vroom part that’s really exciting to kids who get particularly excited by things that go vroom, and approximately 0% of the focus is on developing all the less glamorous but equally essential components of a successful Mars mission, like making sure the crew stays healthy.

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ezst 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> colonize mars

Oh, that crap again.

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belter 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Nobody colonizing Mars. Get real. The most likely outcome, is him landing on a cell when the full Epstein files come out.

	▲	deepfriedchokes 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The most likely outcome is that no one will be punished for anything in the Epstein files.