On: Starship is threatening NASA’s moon contractors

[randallsquared]

> SpaceX might be able to get to $1M marginal cost for a launch, but you can bet they will never sell launches for that.

So, if they mark it up by an order of magnitude for external customers, you're predicting that a Starship launch might be cheaper than a Falcon 9 launch is, today, with a capacity of a dozen times the Falcon 9?

[ncmncm → randallsquared]

Sure?

Cheaper per pound is fine, but teasing with prices 10x less than you will actually charge is no more honest than charging for a self-driving feature that kills people who rely on it.

[mannerheim → ncmncm]

Prices are not the same thing as costs.

[ncmncm → mannerheim]

And goalposts are easy to move.

[mannerheim → ncmncm]

The goalpost was at cost. Price was your own invention.