2019-11-07

@teslaownersSV @flcnhvy So it will take about 20 years to transfer a million tons to Mars Base Alpha, which is hopefully enough to make it sustainable

@teslaownersSV @flcnhvy As the planets align only once every two years

@teslaownersSV @flcnhvy A thousand ships will be needed to create a sustainable Mars city

@Malcolmmarsman @flcnhvy No problem. We could program Starship to perform Swan Lake in the sky. Minimizing landing burn propellant mass is what’s hard.

@flcnhvy Current global payload to orbit capacity is about 500 tons per year, of which Falcon is about half

@flcnhvy If we build as many Starships as Falcons, so ~100 vehicles & each does 100 tons to orbit, that’s a capacity of 10 million tons of payload to orbit per year

@flcnhvy Payload to orbit per year of Starship fleet is most mind-blowing metric, as it’s designed to fly 3X per day, which is ~1000X per year

@flcnhvy The economics have to be something like that to build a self-sustaining city on Mars

@cleantechnica Gas/diesel cars too

@cleantechnica True

Extremism is so fun! (@waitbutwhy) https://t.co/ECACsaqAXR