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Can you provide your logic for this conclusion?

Anyone who is paying attention knows that Starship is mostly going to be a launch vehicle for Starlink. It's very unlikely that the upper stage will ever support external payloads.

Why wouldn't they make it for external payload if they get the cost per kg lower than F9? Running starship only is going to be cheaper than running both rockets, except if the economics of starship are worse (in which case, it would not be used for starlink either).

Cmon. Don’t kill my dream. I dream of Elon musk flying to Mars. And staying there.

He hasn't even been to orbit.

... but alone. We don't want some Expanse-like scenario down the line with fascist part of mankind completely unhinged. Once he is over then colonize all you want.

Oops. Earth's space connection to X just went down. We expect service to resume in about one martian lifetime.

i would be sooooooo sad if we get a challenger #2 while sending musk up. depends on if he's the only one on board.