Could SpaceX's Starship replace traditional airliners? 

Indeed

so true!

But catch the fact that if u add that together it’s still faster than a normal plane ride

still quicker than flying

Bag of in-flight peanuts: $4,000

This also bring in a point! What if collisions happens? Also whats the point of having ur packages shipped in a few hours (Includes truck delivery timing) VS days or a day cheapers and also who would pay about 50 dollars for that...

Dude epic profile pic

😂😂😂

Hey steve, where is that package? Steve: so thats what the big red button does!

@@kundigan5748 I was thinking the same about speed. The 747 was designed to double over as a cargo plane during a time when the future of passenger travel seemed to be supersonic - the reasoning being that if the 747 failed in the long term as a passenger plane, development costs could still be recuperated since cargo doesn't get uncomfortable on long flights.

That’s the literal reason why airplane is so advance lol

@@potatobutroasted4308 🤣🤣🤣 dead ass

You have that backwards. Subtract war, and we wouldn't have any of this technology. We wouldn't have flight at all. We wouldn't have electricity or engineering/science as you know it.

_make pease_

@@st0n3p0ny Or even this platform to comment. Remember who invented the internet...

Man, i imagine some rich dude is going to be the first human ever to travel to all continents in one day, excluding Antarctis unless they build a landing zone there LoL

You and I both. If it's only $1,500, it is a no-brainer. Even at $8,000 it's a good value.

@@SomalianDukeThis world record could last hundreds or even thousands of years until we find a way to teleport without dying.

DarkVortex42 yeah, that would be crazy

I want to be an airline pilot, I am currently a student pilot, I want to be able to fly. This will take away so many jobs. Should I be scared.

It's called The Martian, and he talks to the videojournal camera instead of a rock.

Tru

@@rakaydosdraj8405 ad astra or gravity 😊

I could be the 200th like but nahhhh

@@goodcat1982 you never watch the invasion of robot chicken 😊

Did you scan the QR Code? lol

@@BrianYYH i did

big f***ing plane | and passenger is elon musk lol

@@milok.2604 it contains a gif of elon musk

media.giphy.com/media/Ip5D1pwQ4pKs8/giphy.gif

How do u know?

I can’t wait to see reply’s lol

If Im not wrong space x made a promotional video that's show Dubai will be the first one to build a landing zone.

Because it’s dubai and they want to be first

@@bxshk894 Because it is Dubai.

Nathecat hehe, he must have slept for a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time lol. like, 6 months+

its not gonna be controlled by humans idiot

@@operatorjewski9450 it's a joke, and a good one. Lighten up little fella.

The people on board be like:hey I least I got to go to Mars for the price of going to California from California but how are we going to get home now

Starship is self-driving.

@Mo Ben - Your parcel has arrived , getting wakened by wired humming sound & noticing that all your electronics are fried

Probably wouldn’t need updates

"Your parcel has shipped - " KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

Orders a package 30 mins later KNOCK KNOCK

Parcel has been incinerated after a kraken

Abhinav Chauhan THATS how the ticket says anyway “Big fookin rocket”

Starship

Yeaa aaa baby

JIMI JAMES what does it matter if it’s Russian powered. We’re all on the same earth and should collaborate.

If I was in the market for building and naming rockets, that's what I would label outside of the rocket for hilarious aesthetic look!

You don't need health clearance for rollercoasters do you? 2 or 3 gs ain't shit.

@Best4rtNiteClips Actually, due to advances in rocket tech, today, astronauts usually experience no more than 3-something gs during the launch.

@Portal To The Weekend _ The travel time is too short for that but I understand what you're saying.

The g forces would only be a problem if you were pregnant or injured.

Best4rtNiteClips ya it's usually around 4 g

Airliners and cars were developed in a time where people weren't scared of their own shadows.

People also said the same thing about teleportation. I’m still waiting.

I guess my mom is also... not important

@@bilbo_gamers6417 they were scared of women being in the government, they were terrified of homosexuals etc.

Bilbo_Gamers Hey, what’s that? *AAAAAAAAH MY SHADOW!*

Try adding two more zeros on that price buddy.

Nah, not with the expected cost of the trip and the amount of people the rocket can support per trip. If all goes as planned the only thing the rocket will need is the fuel, and it's fuel will be superchilled Methane.

Many people will pay 12500 (x10 your ticket) just to SEE the curvature of the Earth and feel the lack of gravity for a few minutes [the actual travel to "the other side of the planet" for vacations is just a bonus].

@ Ben Staker : For long SPACE travel is designed to house 100 people [then for a quick suborbital flights anywhere between 500 to 1000 is not even "optimistic"]. Logistics to bring them "inside of it" & secure them on their seats is the main limit. -> The methane and oxigen can be "made" literally "from the air and seawater" using electricity [via solar panels, wind and batteries]; so it is CARBON NEUTRAL.

I think I’m just gonna stay healthy and go to college for a long time

Some will, but remember Concorde. At first, it was luxurious (for the time) and fast, but also crazy expensive (and even then, few people bought tickets). During the later years, Concorde was less luxurious than a ticket that cost way less (a subsonic flight) and just as expensive. The lack of ticket sales was one of the factors that led to Concorde's retirement.

The problem is you might not make it from A to B on a rocket.

@@jeffk464 Same can be said by any airplane today. It's only a matter of mastering the technology and making it reliable.

how did other planes become more "luxurious": @@owenjohnson5308

@@robertheal5137 I'm talking specifically about the later years during Concorde's decline. In the late '80s or early '90s, British Airways introduced 'cradle seats', which allowed flyers to sleep easier on long haul flights. Then in 1995, BA introduced fully lie-flat seats in first class. Other aspects of "luxury" would probably have remained the same, such as food and drink.

BIG FUCKING ROCKET MY DUDE

If anyone was wondering here's the link the QR code has media.giphy.com/media/Ip5D1pwQ4pKs8/giphy.gif

I don't see it.

Leslie.. Shirley either one ok

He was never the same after that last mission over Macho Grande. He developed a drinking problem.

Too small a market for the price and the flexibility. Between most places you can get a packge delivered within one day already. And in the beginning, you will only have very few hubs. So on many connections you will probably not be faster. Also, you will only be able to have such a flight once a day per destination anyway. So I don't expect this any time soon.

imagine ordering a product from china and it arrives within an hour

freight is way cheaper to move than people. air freight moving to "space" freight? ain't nobody gonna pay for that. people on the other hand, would pay $1500 compared to $800 to be there in a fraction of time.

Jonathan Uchiha we talking about big ass freighters only

Perhaps this would be better suited for military deliveries then?

It would backflip yeet into the Atlantic XD

"The landing burn would burn fuel, and that costs money. Brace yourselves everyone!"

5 seconds after lanuching off: *blows*

It would have a collision course with the big boi rock in space

@@quillmaurer6563 "We are about to land on the Launchpad with 300 m/s"

but don't people have to do normally on a regular airline as well? the difference here is the whole taking a boat to you rocket thing. Or this might be some sarcastic joke that went over my head and people are going to reply "r/whooosh" to me

1 was from Soyuz 1 3 was from Soyuz 11

@@joenuts4099 I knew it

@@square7563 they didn't go to space

@@square7563 yeah

@@square7563 They were killed on ground

it costest about 10,000

Typical Elon with his BILL$HIT. It cost $30,000 PER POUND to launch cargo to the space shuttle. Elon wants to ANYTHING THAT COSTS THE TAXPAYERS MONEY. His Tesla company loses one BILLION dollars a QUARTER to run. Elon ALSO get s cut FROM EVERY GASOLINE CAR THAT IS MADE. THATS RIGHT - EVERY CAR MANUFACTURER HAS TO SHAVE OFF SOME OF ITS PROFITS AND SHIP THEM TO ELON FOR NO GOOD REASON AT ALL-OTHER THAN HE IS A CROOK -ITS CALLED A CARBON CREDIT He has received 10 billion in taxpayer personal subsidies since he started screwing our nation. A typical ticket on this NEW SCAM will cost 6 MILLION DOLLARS. Hey Elon, can we get some FREE PEANUTS BACK HERE??? Enjoy your flight cause everyone in the world is gonna pay for it

fladave99 Mills it’s not going into space space it’s just going way farther into the atmosphere, you won’t even feel weightlessness. So it will be much cheaper than regular space shuttles and it will be reusable too further reducing the price. And about all that other stuff idk where you got that info but it’s all false Elon isn’t getting anything from taxpayers and the gas car companies don’t give him any share of what they sell.

@@fladave99 A Typical Trump Supporter.

​@@name4601 Tesla receives hundreds of millions of dollars selling AIR/CARBON CREDITS and forcing GM, FORD and other companies to pay up - IN FACT _ Carbon Credit Sales is the ONLY DIVISION of TESLA that MAKES A PROFIT because it is SELLING AIR and TESLA is MANDATED by the GOVERNMENT to RECEIVE THE MONEY!!! Think what he could do WITHOUT the government taxing everyone else for his philandering. Probably NOTHING!!! Remember the carbon credit SCAM is supposedly PLANTING TREES to offset carbon. Where are the BLEEDING DEMOCRATS PLANTING ALL THOSE TREES to help curb GLOBAL WARMING???? Hop on one of their CORPORATE JETS and try to find the spot. READ THE ARTICLE - Its cute to see what FASCISM REALLY IS. www.businessinsider.com/tesla-sold-carbon-emissions-credits-to-general-motors-fiat-chryser-2019-6

Covid

Nature Portal yes

EL PASO

I imagine that's great for BFR. the air tickets are going to see a sharp increase in fares. Making BFR more lucrative venture.

thought it's Big Fat Rocket

Big F**king Rocket, its Elon Musk this is exactly what he was thinking.

@@joshuadillard2350 LOL! That's what I THOUGHT BFR meant (in fact, look carefully at the image at 4:16 onward LOL :-)

@@joshuadillard2350 Yeah it's big fucking rocket.

@@Joel-hw5sl yeah I red his biography

Comment of the day :D

Rocket lag, yeet

There's no jet lag or rocket lag when it only takes 30mins to 1 hour to travel anywhere in the world

@@ThabangLekoane Actually, that makes it worse. What causes jet lag is the time zone changes, so making the journey quicker would give you even less time to adapt.

well, that remains to be seen.. the time difference might be bigger, but because of the shorter travel time (and likely more cabin space than a cramped plane) you are possibly less exhausted after the travel, which maybe makes adaption to the time change easier..

I wish the rocket journey was longer so we could play online games. We would have really good wifi flying next to the satellites.

@@arnavjain55 1-0 noob from space !!

Tudor Jinga yeah, flying a rocket and visiting at the same time Australia. This would be an awesome vacation.

I’m more excited for this than the flights to Mars. Like you said, going into space. Who born today would think that was even a remote possibility.

I dont get excited riding the plane

Idealistic simpletons lol. You have 0 understanding of what it takes to actually launch a rocket. This will never be a thing and interplanetary travel among the common citizen most certainly will not happen within your life times. Sorry to rain in on your parade.

I wanna see the curvature of the earth. You don't get to see that from a plane.

It is a non issue. Teslas electric cars acceleration is around 2 Gs for proformance models. All the same some people genuinely dont like roller coasters, just like some people dont like Tomatoes.

the shaking during reentry would be more an issue than the G's at launch.

no fuck that. feeling the G-force is half the experience

@@andrew1717xx 2g in a streetcar? Where did you get that from?

Ok so lets say the BFR follows a ICBM Ballistic Trajectory for its flight. It would pull about 100Gs on Acceleration during Liftoff and about 25 to 50 during Reentry. Thats because the Missile dosnt need to land. So if the BFS would follow the same Trajectory it would have the same G Forces, at least during Reentry. Lets be gentel and say that the BFS would use a slower Trajectory and experince about 10 Gs During Reentry. That would kill people but fuck it. Lets say the Ship slows down in Orbit from 6km/s to 4. That would cut the G Froces but also shorten the travel distance even more. The fact ist that a Ballistic Trajectory is a very different thing then a Orbit. If you are in Orbit, you can Reenter very flat so the G Forces dont kill everybody. Thats how the Space Shuttle did it. A Ballistic Trajectory is very Short and fast. And the reenter angle is very steep. Like so Steep that you get those G Forces of up to 50 Gs.

Still better than an airline trip.... and you get to go to freaking SPACE!!!

I agree, but SpaceX will reinvent the process and improve it considerably

and when the lose your luggage it will end up in orbit.

@@nPcDrone 😂😂 thats cool.

No, Boat to rocket > 3 hours on both ends. Boats are the slowest form of travel and you MUST get way out from population before you can launch.

@@axsmasher4 well depends on how big of a plane I suppose and how good your balance is

trains?

Thats what we have now, for people flying first class. Before we had the concorde that was faster, but uncomfortable. Now we have slower but comfortable.

What if everyone could afford what you're talking about?

I remember comfortable a meal and less time waiting. Now we are uncomfortable with peanuts and paying for WiFi.

But what if i want to go to space by this rocket?

That’s what people used to think for trains when planes were introduced You are thinking like old people

And we could have a KickStarter to send all the flat-earthers up just so they can have a "duh!!" moment ;)

@@pghendry1 Of course, unfortunately, they would all somehow calculate that they are looking at some sort of videoscreen with a fake image (not so LOL)

@@voicetube They are gullible enough to believe the earth is flat so I'm sure they would be gullible enough to step into an airlock and open the outer door to have a more convincing look (we can but hope :-) )

@@pghendry1 I will indeed give you SORT of an LOL, as regards your reply :-)

@@voicetube it's called the airlock

ehhh I wouldn't count on that.

Yeah, problem is nobody lives in deserted areas. So there goes the whole 40 min travel time thing if you're spending 5 hours to get out in the middle of nowhere.

H3ckster, not unless someone reinvents the laws of physics. And half the problem is not the rocket engine, it's the sonic booms. Same reason the Concord was never successful.

I agree the transport required to get to/from a deserted area would be well worth doing over having to travel from a coast if you're trying to go inland.

Good luck finding any deserted area in places like western Europe, Japan, or most Asia.

Bye the time hey do we will be able to teleportort

ZOOOooOOoO-BANG

But the plane is able to turn around much faster (less than an hour if it needs to) unlike the bfr who would need to be reassembled. Picking the capsule and put it on top of the rocket. Plus what they don't tell you is that rockets are not able to fly in all weather conditions.

Also, imagine trying to board that silly barge during a storm.

A mach 4.5 jet could do NY-London, London-NY, NY-London, London-NY in a day with the same crew. With a jet technology that is doable. Below mach 5 the stress and heat of materials are not so extreme.

Yeah, a Mach 2 jet was an abysmal failure, so let's increase the cost of a supersonic jet further and try again! Makes perfect sense!

Do A380 aircraft really make 3.5 flights per day over their entire lifetime including maintenance downtime?

But businessmen can just travel overnight in business class with a lay-flat bed, so that's no time lost really as you travel when you sleep, and I really can't see BFR being cheaper than business class.

The only costs past the vehicle are for crew. They can make their own cryo-methalox for free so fuel is not a consideration.

newsgetsold It is just not the same as same day return trip.

Well It certainly wont be the budget airline market.

Quick maths🤔 your 35

.i will be 41. And me too.

I will be 33

@Michael James man I dont want to hear that shit. It's monday!

@Michael James so sorry. Nut maybe not. How many years do you have.

That would actually be genius.

@@kahoot9659 like the boring company is doing right now

@Rick Lokers but.... The hyperloop can be 'as well as' boats. Hyperloop station at the boat terminal, brings people from far away quickly, boats also mean that multiple launch pads can be managed easily and moved if needed.

Why not helicopters? They could land you right at the launch pad. Maybe even pick you at your house. That would cost money through. So would a hyperloop, the launch pad, the fuel. It isn't going to cheap, not for a long time and by the time it's common it'll just be annoying just like flying across the ocean is now.

@@myothersoul1953 coz a helicopter won't carry 300 people......

about a 100 years ago, people using ships like the titanic would say the same about airplanes and now let's see if they would say the same- Give it time. There's always something that will replace a technology. Take the internet for example, it has replaced television and it will continue to do so that we no longer need a tv set to watch news but just a laptop or holografic proyector to watch whatever. Sure there are still plenty of networks broadcasting shows on tv channels but once Netflix came out, so did many other services like hulu, HBO, etc... about 10 years ago we used dvd or BR to watcha movie, today is trending to disappear due to high speed internet where you can stream away any movie or you buy music mostly from itunes or websites selling music as data than a physical store selling cd's. Mobile phones have replaced regular land line phones that used a chord or their wireless versions, and has absorbed to a point the fact that you no longer need an average film camera to take photos any longer unless you wanna go retro.

Wow! I now see the U.S. Space Force operating BFR's around the world. Mind blown!!!

Darimonde they can’t space x is not a government agency

It's not just a dream. Major parts of the rocket are already developed. The info showcased in the video is from SpaceX. Even if the average person can't afford to go at first, it will get cheaper, and better systems will be developed, until spaceflight is similar to a train ticket.

And still rocket technology, the most inefficient and dangerous way of moving cargo.

It's crap.

Don't be such a hater

@@dosmastrify ikr

dosmastrify The fuck? 🤨 he wasn’t hating.

andarax8 yes nice. question: can you get some of these channels with the comments disabled/excluded? They add little and annoy and distract a lot from the content of the vid. presentation. It is hard not to look at them, I admit; and I do troll as much as the next guy. kinda like a train wreck you keep looking at again and again. soooo, never mind!

A guy who names his capsule "Dragon" and his engines "Merlin" just HAS to know what BF_ means

@Ash Bajaj There is no affirmative evidence that there are aliens yet.

How does thrust work in a vacuum ?

and 53 years later men dont back to moon 😅

@@lightasafeatherheavyasasto3924the same as in atmosphere

Maybe for the "heavy cargo versions" of BFR E2E [not something lame like written mail, but massive stuff that needs to be transported ASAP for whatever reason]; the use of a BFB for the ENTIRE ascent phase plus the initial "slowdown" (separating in the descent phase while still out of the atmosphere), with the BFS using a minimum of fuel for the landing (while BFB also lands nearby the same destination).

Dinkelstein Kerman hmm I see your point

You only need about 1.2 to 1.4 G of acceleration to reach orbit (it depends on aerodynamics, so BFR probably can go on the lower side). -> The main reason most rockets go higher than 3 G is to save fuel (less time "fighting gravity" and more incresing speed); but this is not necesary if you have excess fuel [full tanks with not even half of the max payload mass].

Also... Almost forgot that BFR E2E never goes "into orbit" (all launches to all destinations are suborbital); so the max speed is MUCH lower; so the time spent accelerating to reach it (at low G) is not even 1/3 of the whole journey.

Argamis (SilverComet) yes that was my original point. If you can reach orbit without the booster suborbital shouldn’t be a problem

To quote a different comment: "The methane and oxigen can be "made" literally "from the air and seawater" using electricity [via solar panels, wind and batteries]; so it is CARBON NEUTRAL." - Argamis (SilverComet) I doubt it being carbon neutral, but probably be very close to that. Remember that BFR is designed to be launched from Mars with fuel that is produced on Mars.

@@GermanCommentGamer that's amazing. Why don't we do that for everything?

@@ColterN10 mostly because governments love their oil

ColterN10 How expensive will it be???????????????????????????

​@@nishansengupta1219 I just want my USS Sulaco mang :( Preferably without Xenomorphs!

Movie Airplane, in case you haven't - go see the movies, they are great! lol

Musk said that cost will be similar to general economy class

@@jimmyfalcon1869 he said many things...but its ultra hard to make it that cost effective. just the fuel cost are extreme, not to mention making the BFR insanely reusable with those amounts of stress on it. it will be unlikely to reach those levels anytime soon for sure. reaching a comparable level of safety will be almost impossible too. so it would probably be more expensive (ideally not by much), less safe, less comfortable. but u will get ultra fast travel with a nice view too.

cobrazax Bro it is using liquid oxygen and kerosene.

@@SomalianDuke Maintenance and fuel costs together are significant

Don Adams Oooo! What field do you major in?

​@@kingslushie1018 Time travel.

Daniel W. I major in *incomprehensible noises*

Don Adams... This was pretty insightful. I have been thinking about a flying ship/levitating ship which will cross oceans and seas at incredibly fast velocities to be used for worldwide shipping & delivery of products in record time... I don't know if you have any brilliant suggestions or Additions as regarding this... Will really love to learn from your Fountain of wisdom

Stop lying >:/

David Scheurer The reason SpaceX are even considering this is to get a revenue stream to finance the development of the BFR and trips to mars. For that it needs to be more than a niche service for the rich.

@@andrewpaulhart Hollywood's twits and other celebs alone could provide financing for Mars; their whole lives are about being the "first with the most"!

@@andrewpaulhart Daddy NASA, and by extension the American people, are the ones financing most of SpaceX. E2E BFR is a publicity stunt to reel in scientifically illiterate investors and raise brand value for Elon's various companies.

@@ronschlorff7089 We should get a Kickstarter to fund Hollywood one way trip to Mars

@@after_midnight9592 Matt Damon might pay for his own, and he knows his way around there :D

Raymond Barry you spend more time in the rocketports don’t matter if it takes 10 minutes. When you spend 5 hrs in ports

I agree

Typical Elon with his BILL$HIT. It cost $30,000 PER POUND to launch cargo to the space shuttle. Elon wants to ANYTHING THAT COSTS THE TAXPAYERS MONEY. His Tesla company loses one BILLION dollars a QUARTER to run. Elon ALSO get s cut FROM EVERY GASOLINE CAR THAT IS MADE. THATS RIGHT - EVERY CAR MANUFACTURER HAS TO SHAVE OFF SOME OF ITS PROFITS AND SHIP THEM TO ELON FOR NO GOOD REASON AT ALL-OTHER THAN HE IS A CROOK -ITS CALLED A CARBON CREDIT He has received 10 billion in taxpayer personal subsidies since he started screwing our nation. A typical ticket on this NEW SCAM will cost 6 MILLION DOLLARS. Hey Elon, can we get some FREE PEANUTS BACK HERE??? Enjoy your flight cause everyone in the world is gonna pay for it

@@fladave99 What the fuck are you even on about. Can someone throw this nutcase back into a looneybin?

@@fladave99 cost of each flight is 2 million dollars and it can carry 200 people so the cost of each ticket is about 10000$ not 6000000$😁

>1). It can be mistaken as a missile attack Not quite. The launch is announced beforehand, along with all the trajectory details. Also, Starship is far, far bigger, than any re-entry vehicle of ICBM. >2). It will just make more and more space junks No. The entire point of Starship/Super Heavy is its full reusability. Both stages are recovered and reused. There are no pyrotechnic bolts, so, staging does not produce the junk either. >3). Regular civilians can die from heart or panic attack. I assume there'll be some kind of a health check, before one boards. >4). Good travel means safety, slow, enjoyable, comfortable. Not for everyone. Some just want to get to their destination faster. And for those, Starship Earth-to-Earth will be a godsend.

well, the boat will transport people away from land to the launchpad, and rockets aren't painfully loud in the first place

@@mattmoquin6943rockets are pretty damn loud my dude...especailly compared to planes

co2 is also a problem when you think about rockets instead of planes...planes are much more efficent

@@greynolds17 specially sonic booms, hell Concord had this issue.

@@greynolds17 The amount of fuel that is burned is mind blowing. I am not very knowledgeable about this, but is Ion propulsion more efficient, or is it used in most launches? In my head, Xenon is more efficient, or is it just another emission which is not efficient?

Yep, but wont they need 100s (or more) of successful cargo flights without an explosion (death) to even consider taking people?

Passengers: HEAVY BREATHING

@@nethascotx24 they wont be breathing

Demonic Dominic nah they'll be able to breathe for the rest of their lives

Have some humans landed in the shit yet?

Hyperloop and bullet trains. I havent tryed hyperloop yet but bullet trains they are effective

If concord was too loud, pretty sure bfg would be 10,000 times louder

Your point of view is good, however, I think current or tougher safety standards will be applied. Let's hope for this project come true and experience such a flight adventure.

but current Astronaut death rate is 1 out of 31, and airline death rate is 1 out of 60,000,000 ... even getting to 1960's airline safety levels is a 6 orders of magnitude improvement (about 300,000 times better, LOL). The cost will kill this idea before safety concerns ever get tested for real .. Musk is absurdly optimistic, but then that is his job, marketing spin that generates investor cash. Many predict that BFR will morph into a highly profitable unmanned space cargo launch carrier .. there just isn't any near term practical use for carrying hundreds of people into space at once.

The other issue is the inherent violence in ballistic rocketry. The vast majority of people aren't going to want to be knocked unconscious by 4 to 5 Gs of force on liftoff, vomit in free fall (the Vomit Comet got its name for a good reason) and then experience a fiery, hypersonic plunge into the atmosphere, followed by a rapid, last minute deceleration just before barely slowing to a stop. It would be the equivalent of bad turbulence on absolutely every flight.

Only if people would accept death just for traveling faster...

Jonathan Dirks no, in the 60s people didn't know any better. People are very aware about safety standards. Your argument seems flawed. People won't risk their lives if risks are significantly higher just because it's more convenient.

A VTOL TSTO like BFR is not likely to be used for suborbital point to point other than maybe a few publicity stunts. One big issue is restacking the spaceship on the booster which would at a least be as involved as mating the Shuttle to 747 carrier aircraft. A HOTOL SSTO like Skylon would be much better suited for suborbital point to point transport.

It's being designed purely for Mars and other higher-up spaceflights. Even if this use of it is plausible, it wouldn't seem like the most sensible vehicle for the purpose, if this could actually be economical they'd design a different craft from the ground up optimized for this mission - though maybe they'd use their existing BFR/Starship as a proof of concept to lead to the development of this new vehicle. As for Patchuchan's remarks of the restacking and mating and all, I'd think even a regular Starship (BFR upper stage) could do this all single-stage, no need for the lower stage booster, as the lower stage booster arrangement is for escape velocity, a suborbital hop would need far less delta-V, and that would save a lot of costs and hassles. But a vehicle designed for this purpose specifically rather than a far more capable (and thus more expensive) interplanetary ship could do it all even better. I'd think more of a spaceplane design, something with wings that looks more like the Space Shuttle and can glide down rather than a pure rocket descent. Maybe capable of taking off and landing horizontally, allowing for use of existing airports, or even capable of either horizontal takeoff/landing or VTOL depending on if the facility in question has a launch pad or runway.

pussy

I will poop my pants if i was on there

The only thing that would be give me a heart attack would be the cost of the ticket

Sakurako Hikari idk why but I feel dizzy when the plane goes up then I shake

@@gazey that is called feeling the blood being pushed more to one side of your body because of g forces and a slight adrenaline kick. not everyones body reacts too well to it. but just a slight shake is a normal response from your fight or flight respose when hit with adrenaline.

I see the technology to be most likely to be bought into by the military (which has already looked into a similar project with SUSTAIN (look it up on Wiki. It's awesome and you'll ask why we never went through with it)). I can definitely see how the military would want to send 500 Marines + weapons and ammunition (Obviously vehicles would probably have to be sent over beforehand) across the world in under an hour. Plus, the Military would be the prime market for the startup phase: A strong core of young, healthy, and physically fit passengers that can take the G-Forces? (most astronauts are recruited from the military anyway.) Check. An organization that is willing to take riskier options for transport and people that are willing to take that risk for an obvious and extremely powerful advantage in capability? Check. Nigh-Unlimited pockets that will be willing to fund expensive projects and take cost overruns for a promising project? check. People with facilities that can be launched out of and landed at where no one cares about noise pollution? Check. An organization with a history of revolutionizing the consumer market with its funding of technologies to better their own operations? Check. The military would be the perfect customer to start this sort of thing off.

I agree. If they made it safe and comfortable they can charge like 5k easy.. a lot of people fly business and first class.. when I went on business trip to india..22hr flight inlcuding lay over in london, it cost my company 12k for round trip in business class. If I could fly on the bfr for 5k and get there in under an hour I would.. plus imagine the view! People might be hesistant at first but after a year if there were no problems.. i think it would be the preferred choice for business and first class passengers.

Pretty good idea but it will take a lot of time

Jeffrey I agree, that price was set very low.

To be fair, even doubling the ticket price, people will pay... I could either travel (with changes ect) for a day (with proper jet lag) for a day to get to Australia from where I am... Or pay double and get there in well under an hour.... Am gonna pay double!

I recently got a ticket to the other side of the world for $700 and 30hrs of travel time. I would easily pay $2000 to do that with a rocket.

1500$ is not a lot of money for many people. This money could be saved already by the 30min flight instead of 13h for many. Even if it’s 5000$

also people would think it is cool to go out of orbit and maybe seeing the curvature of the earth