Whats the fucking point?

At the risk of getting banned, I’m not on board with the hate for Elon Musk. The things his companies (particularly SpaceX) are accomplishing transcend politics.

I suppose I care about our species more than the proletariat.

All the old futurists are rolling in their graves. They fucking went to the moon and here we are a half century later thinking launching a car into space is a big deal. They thought we would colonize our solar system and leave the cradle we call Earth but nope we are still here not taking space seriously.

learn materialism.
if everyone associated with SpaceX died tomorrow the future would be negligibly different 10 years from now, we'd just have BlueOrigin logos on our nightmares instead of SpaceX ones.

also please slap yourself for saying anything can "transcend politics" like some boyish democrat senator from a flyover state. I know I can't slap you, so my best hope is asking you to slap yourself, so please give me that, slap yourself.

The Tesla advertisement in the playload was not the point of the launch.
In order to accomplish any of that stuff in the photos you posted, we would need reusable rockets, which is what SpaceX is making progress on.

Space elevators and orbital rings are far more efficient in the long run.

Might as well push for a Dyson sphere while you are at it.

what makes you say that

How are you going to get all that mass into orbit?
Efficient rockets are a vital intermediate step.

What is wrong is a dyson swarm? We have a free massive fusion reactor just pumping out energy in our solar system so why now harness the energy it is wasting?

Currently all attempts to build reusable rockets haven't been cheaper then simply mass producing disposable rockets which is why the Space Shuttle was such a massive white elephant since even though it could reuse its boosters after being fished out of the water, the cost of rebuilding was far more costly then simply building new.