Remember when Ford was manufacturing cars in the 1900s? Well done Toyota for managing the same a century later.

They're not vital, aerobraking is just for efficiency. There's no design reason that a fueled starship couldn't do a vertical landing

Those people do not get grid power, they're all on solar or generator.

It's way less environmentally damaging to have space based internet than to run cables everywhere (minor habitat destruction vs literally zero impact)

How would people in rural areas get internet? Running 500 km of fibre optic for one person in Central Australia is a terrible option.

They managed orbit on Flight 6. Still transatmospheric orbit but I'm pendantic.

No, it wasn't. The post that you replied to literally says it's the first launch. Take a look at Blue Origin's website and see whether they care about life on Earth.

Blue Origin's entire purpose is to move polluting industries off Earth. You're making all climate activism look retarded by being stupid about this.

There's a tiny, tiny little bit more to rocket design than feeling masculine.

Improving technology is good for life on earth, actually!

Great for the planet, actually. Launching earth observation satellites is fairly important for climate change.

Spending money on spaceflight is the single best way to improve life on earth.

Fun fact: Launches are planned more than a week in advance, and cancelling this would do a whole lot of nothing for fires, floods, or global warming.

👋 I care!

Damn, you're right. All space agencies should immediately shut down, that would cause nothing but good for the planet.

Spinlaunch will never fail, it's far too cool.