Starship is still not understood

I’m kinda confused by the criticism of the industry and NASA not designing for Starship. The author argues that NASA doesn’t understand Tempe game changer that Starship is, but I don’t think that’s accurate. I think the risk to NASA of assuming the benefits of Starship before it’s proven are just too high. If NASA (or other industry players), assume Starship will deliver the benefits it promises, they to fundamentally alter their approach to space. But that leaves them with…

> Starship is intended to be able to transport a million tonnes of cargo to the surface of Mars in just ten launch windows Again, this is from 2021, one of those set of launches was to be last year. And it was to be 1,000 starships bound for Mars to meet that goal. Starship is impressive but we need to be realistic about these numbers. We haven’t even technically had a launch with any payload. Additionally they claim that…

This was xAI's interesting take... https://grook.ai/saved_session?id=e269e88a7b1a71eff4f176c864...

> Starship matters. It’s not just a really big rocket, like any other rocket on steroids. It’s a continuing and dedicated attempt to achieve the “Holy Grail” of rocketry, a fully and rapidly reusable orbital class rocket that can be mass manufactured.