Paul Schoe<p>Will <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Lockett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lockett</span></a> provides a detailed analysis of why Musk's ' <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Starship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Starship</span></a> was doomed to fail from the beginning.</p><p> It’s not trying to revolutionise the space industry; if it were, its concept, design, and testing plan would be totally different. </p><p>Instead, the entire project is optimised to fleece as much money from the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> taxpayer as possible, and as such, that is all it will ever do.'</p><p>Apparently, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> is not an engineer. Who could have guessed?</p><p><a href="https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/starship-was-doomed-from-the-beginning" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">planetearthandbeyond.co/p/star</span><span class="invisible">ship-was-doomed-from-the-beginning</span></a><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.cafe/@baldur" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>baldur</span></a></span></p>