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What’s on Elon Musk’s mind?

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The Cost of a Starship Goes to Mars

The main design is to basicly take what a hundred plus people at a time, plus a bunch of things that they need, two mars. And the tat this is gigantic, just just as it would be in any other mode of transport. It doesn't use sort of exotic propellants or things that are difficult to obtain on mars. So it's really pretty mine boggling. A thattht an thing costs less weight, less than a small thing. Ah, just as the cost of flying a seven, forty seven round the world, it is less than the cost of a small aeroplane,. youno, a smaller aplane that was thrown away.

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