Improvements that make space flight more sustainable are welcome ... unless that means an order of magnitude more pollution in a less controllable form, like emissions. [Due to more frequent flights]
Daily trips to space likely also mean more debris in space and falling to earth.
I hope there is a balance that includes the lives of people near these sites and all of us sharing the same atmosphere.
SpaceX proposed it but I doubt there is any chance of this architecture ever achieving the airliner-level reliability needed for people to accept routine Earth-to-Earth passenger service. That's several levels beyond what you'd need to fly astronauts.
Maybe a future architecture with more redundancy could get there someday.
> Considering the safety and prosperity that can be brought online from 1,000 launches / 150,000 tons in orbit, that’s the deal of the century.
Regardless of the (in)accuracy of ChatGPT, you're assuming a lot can be accomplished with those flights. I strongly suspect 600K cars getting people where they need to go has far more utility than 1K flights of anything into / out of NEO.
> Debris is an absolutely non-issue.
Astronomers probably don't want 1000x (or even 10x) as many satelites obstructing their view.
> There is zero environmental downside, only Luddite foot stomping.
Name calling isn't going to help your cause. And the luddites had a good point, they didn't mind innovation. They minded being cut out of the benefits of innovation without any say in the matter.
We got to our current prosperous world by roflstomping the interests of one special interest group after another. Sorry, Luddite-like groups, the Care Meter is reading zero, and you don't have a right to the comfort of your current way of life.
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Please avoid tit-for-tat spats on HN—they're nasty and boring. And please don't post in the flamewar style to HN—it's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
