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Yet two days after this post, Starship delivered astronauts to the ISS. Seemed to work ok.

Starship did? You'll find many people very surprised by this bit of information.

Edit (to be a little more useful): did you mean Crew Dragon?

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/human-spaceflight/wa...

No. That was a Falcon 9. Starship is a completely different rocket and has never made orbit.

https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4121368/air-...

Starship isn't rated for human spaceflight
But isn't that the goal? Regardless, the TFA posits that it's physically impossible to do what he promised to do. I'm not a rocket scientist but I got the gist of the problem (reentry is a bitch).

I'm a geek who's long been fascinated by space exploration and way back when, I drank the Elon koolaid. Knowing what he does with with his wealth puts me in the unfortunate position of cheering his failures. It sucks, but he's a threat and should not be further empowered.

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