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> No other rocket even in the planning stage comes close to Starship.

Both my rockets and Starship have reached space the same number of times.



One fabricator has a track record and additionally tested their latest rocket more than zero times

Also, Starship is beyond the planning stage


> Both my rockets and Starship have reached space the same number of times.

Wouldn't it be more apples-to-apples to compare "all your rockets" to "all of SpaceX's rockets", or "all your superheavy-class rockets" to "all of SpaceX's superheavy-class rockets"?


Nah, I've only focused on super-heavy class in my napkin designs.

I'm just facetiously pointing out that Starship hasn't launched yet. There could be major flaws. Someone else might have a better design brewing but with little to show for it. The irony is that Starship's design looks a lot more like the sci-fi futurism of the 50s - we're returning to it after testing out shuttle-style reusable vehicles.




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