Red herring argument. Probably works in your less intelligent, entitled crowd.

Yes why does it look so crappy? It’s like a cheap toy from the 50's, not something you actually send into space.

This is from the same guy who calls his cruise control system “Autopilot.”

No, Starship is made out of Grace Slick, Mickey Thomas, Pete Sears, Paul Kantner, Craig Chaquico, Donny Baldwin, and David Freiberg

The third version of this is intended to be produced from a single roll of stainless steel sheet, with a single weld joint up one side. (Version two is already being built in Florida, and looks about the same as number one.)

Keep in mind that SpaceX has already demonstrated reliably firing 27 engines at the same time, with Falcon Heavy. So this is only a little more than that.

Well, it was built with the help of a local water tank contractor.

Note also that the N1 didn’t use gimbaling engines for control. It used a system of differential thrust. e.g. it throttled different fixed engines to provide pitch and yaw controls.

Not that it’s a thing with Jeff...

First thing I thought too.. looks like a shoddily constructed grain silo from the midwest.  Space?  Mars?!  Yeah lol, sure.

It’s partially better reliability (Soviet quality control was pretty ass), but a big part is better computers.

They had all kinds of issues - vibration, cavitation, uneven build quality etc. Single engine rockets had huge problems with that back then, much less 30 engine rockets. It was a system too complex for where rocketry was at that point in history and they didn’t have the resources to build enough test articles to work…

The question I have is will there be more or less people in Texas who will shoot at it than in Florida?

Testing a rocket of this size is a bit dangerous, and Canaveral is a bit crowded. If you were another launch company with a Canaveral lease (ie. ULA, NGIS, Blue Origin, Firefly, or Relativity), would you want SpaceX having their prototype hovering around, deliberately testing the corners of the envelope until it…

Don’t forget the replicators.

It is not a starship until he adds the warp drive, inertial dampening, and artificial gravity. Until then it is, at best, just a spaceship.

Agreed. This is clearly the most penisy of the penis rockets.

It is the southern most point in the US, land was cheap, and Texas doesn’t believe in zoning.

Am I the only one who finds their choice of spaceport strange? Many more downrange safety issues than a Florida coastal port. And why not locate it near existing space infrastructure? Curious.