Instead, I said it is an impossible thing to compare, for everything is built upon another. In fact, everything is built upon a myriad of other things.

Really, both the Heavy and the Saturn cost about the same. That's because they both depend upon the entire sum of human knowledge and research, to be built.

A billion trillion trillion trillion in today's dollars of knowledge gained and experience honed, over millions of years. So what if one cost a billion trillion trillion trillion, and another cost a billion trillion trillion trillion + a few billion more. The difference is meaningless, and not even worth considering.

And then there's the whole "how much is new" argument, and there's new knowledge aplenty thanks to SpaceX.

I really don't get these arguments. People seem to really love to denigrate the effort, the excellent results. It's beyond bizarre. And worse, mock because test flights, expected to possibly go sideways, do?

So weird.

"Hi, I'm going to see if this will work. It'll probably explode. But if it does, I'll learn something"

<boom>

hahaha it exploded you suck

I don't get it.