Fly-Through SpaceX's Massive 'Fun' Spaceship To Mars and Beyond | Video

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1. hmmm. 100 people in a ship with a max diameter of 17 meters and a total lenght of 49.5 m. Let's be very generous and say that 25m of that length can be populated and ignore it is a cone. This is about 5675 cube meters/ 100 = 56.75 cube meter per person. Let's say the habitat per person is a 2 m high this gives you a 5 by 5 living room. That is if everything is filled with rooms. Now since it is a cone and a much shorter part of the rocket plus corridors, supplies etc.. I think you will be literary cramped in a tin can like a bunch of sardines. This for a flight a few months long. Good luck with that.
2. FOLKS, don't you get it? ELON IS AN ALIEN!
3. The ship is ugly, but I still want to go.
4. Wow more bs propaganda.
   
   They can't get off the launch pad. We haven't gone back to moon how are we expected to go to Mars?
   
   Moon landing was fake, not to mention van Allen belts.
   
   This is nonsense
5. I still have so many questions, how will the life support system work, will the water be recycled, how will they feed that many people, how will they manage the waste, will they use hydroponics to produce oxygen, how will the micro gravity be managed, how will the sleeping quarters be arranged, will there be a radiation shelter. I could go on, I just want to know so much more now.
6. :)
7. So... To keep in mind that this is a company that:
   -Doesn't have a rating for human flight yet.
   -Hasn't flown any of the recovererd first stages again.
   -Doesn't have Falcon Heavy or anything other than Falcon 9 in use yet.
   -Hasn't flown anything past earth orbit.
   
   I'd love to say that going from this current situation to to being able to build, much less launch a spaceship with 100 passengers and movies, restaurants and more in under 8 years is ambitious, but
   that would be stretching the meaning of that word to absurdity.
   
   While SpaceX can accomplish those steps in a few years, barring additional problems with their programs, i still have the following problems with this "Interplanetary-transporter":
   -The order of things that are meant to happen. Why send people up to wait for fuel and not the other way around? You could launch the fuel up in a completely different rocket to wait for people so that they don't have to risk the dangers of launch and re-entry for nothing if the landing of the re-usable rocket doesn't work or if the launch with the fuel doesn't go off as planned.
   -The way its meant to land. To plan to aerobrake and land a spacecraft of any size at all when arriving at Mars is very risky as shown by the failure-rate of unmanned missions, but to then do it sideways, something that hasn't been done by any craft on earth or Mars.
   -The size. Why show what kind of a spacecraft for 100 people you are going to build before you haven't even built something that has left earth orbit? Wouldn't it be bit more rational to show plans for a smaller 6-12 crew model that will be a proof of concept before revealing these final plans?
   -The styling. Are all of the astronauts meant to use that huge window to look at space/Mars all the time while sitting/floating together to make such an HUGE window necessary? Presumably they all have windows in their cabins/common rooms, so i don't feel there would be any need for a such a structural weakness, other than to make it look futuristic.
   -The interior. You don't want or need huge open spaces while in space as all areas become much more roomy while floating in micro-gravity. You can't store food or other materials in open spaces as they are much better stored in a small quantities in confined spaces, to minimise the risk of mass shifting. And while on a planet, you have a dangerous multi-story fall as a risk. Not to mention how the minimal amount of structural supports in the middle of this cylinder would make the stress of atmospheric entry sideways very risky.
   
   Those are the issues that i see at the top of my head and while i'm sure that SpaceX has some really smart people working there, they still have so many hurdles to jump to even make the rocket that is meant to launch this thing a reality that i just don't see the point of revealing something like this instead of Falcon Heavy that can become reality within 5 years. Given the amount of accidents that they've had in launching and even refuelling their current normal rockets, i'd consider going from a single engine-test to building and flying the worlds most powerful rocket in 8 years would require so many corners to be cut that risks and accident-rates would be worse than they already are.
   
   I'd like to see real advances in space-exploration, but this whole concept seems to be too much too soon, given the current technology and its announcement should've been made after they've actually done even half the things that this monstrosity needs in order to function.
8. One THING ! You cant come BACK ! Not worth the RISK of one of you bring back a SPACE Virus/Germ/Fungus or Worst to MOTHER EARTH $$ MOON BASE * ZIG ZAG * is the Answer $$
9. But isn't it only one trip and then you live out the rest of your life with fairly normal gravity and below freezing temperatures?
10. have a great time🍒