[–] 7e62ce85 [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
While this may sound like a lot the Falcon Heavy is 10 times cheaper than the cheapest non-SpaceX rockets per kilo and half the price of the already competitive Falcon 9.
While this is still not cheap in absolute terms the price is likely to come down even further in the future.
It is also important to remember that once space is opened up with orbital habitats growing their own food and asteroid mining you won't need to launch everything.
You can reuse and even produce things in space. Once you are outside the gravity well of Earth it will be quite easy to move around.
So you need to understand that this is not just the beginning of 10 times more satellites, but the beginning of humans jumping from planet to planet and living in rotating space habitats.
For political movements such as ours it opens up exciting possibilities in the future. Space has infinite well space which means we could one day build our own territory without having to invade Somalia or whatever. [Insert whynotboth.jpeg]
[–] Firevine 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Time to lose some weight.