He gave them startup funding, and their most important employee, the CTO he was already paying to do battery research. Then he led every subsequent round or it would have died, and took over from the founder when the founders ridiculous plan to build roadsters for $250K would have bankrupted them and led them to…

Elon is clearly the founder of SpaceX, it’s not even contested. It was his idea after the Russians refused to sell him a rocket to send a terrarium to Mars, his friends like Jim Cantrell tried to talk him out of it, he put half his net worth in, etc.

Now Boeing is assembling planes for Airbus?

Atlas has only about 5,000 lb capacity to trans-martian injection velocities, not enough for a capsule. Falcon 9 can push 8,800 lbs to Mars, and Falcon Heavy 37,000 lbs, both still a little shy of what you want for life-support and landing fuel. Starship can carry 200,000 lbs of payload to the surface Mars, so you’d…

That must be why Carvana is teetering near bankruptcy, they have all the power and we have none, right?

All rocket fuels offer unique sets of trade-offs between cost, density and energy. Hydrogen (Hydrolox) offers the highest energy per kg, but it lacks density requiring much larger, heavier tanks to crycool it to near absolute zero. Because of Hydrogens small molecular weight its hard to build engines with a lot of…