Elon Musk the Science Guy

All right it's a mass simulation, I got it, but still From a technical standpoint, a reusable rocket is just stupid in any way possible, let me explain: to bring cargo into space you need a lot of fuel, the heavier the cargo is you want to propell into space, the more fuel you need, but the fuel you need tho add to the rochet also has a lot of weight, so you need to compdnsaite the fuel with more fuel. At the end of that cycle you end up with a rocket that's loaded with 99% fuel and 1%cargo, and the ammount of fuel required increacess exponentially the more cargo you want to take into space. The good thing is, once a fuel tank is empty you can just drop it, so the rocket get's lighter and lighter, and you get furter from earth, witch means that you need less propultion to get the same speed, and the thrusters burn through less fuel. It's no surprise, that the last few stages of a rocket propell it to a much higher speed than the first few. Now look at the falco: it needs extra fuel to land the rocket, and not just a litle bit, that extra fuel requires a lot of extra fuel, to reach orbit, that fuel that it needs to reach orbit also needs other fuel to compensate for itselfe, so at the end you need a lot more fuel than you would need with a conventional rocket, a conventional rocket would probably be cheaper by than. The falcon also doesn't have that extra propultion when it drops it's stages, because it doesn't have any. So it won't reach the same acceleration as a normal rocket of it's sice, and to reach the same distance, it needs a lot more fuel. There is a reason why the space shutle project was such a huge failiour and money sink. There is also the huge problem of safety: reusable rockets tend to be extreamly more dangerous then coonventional rockets: especially if the thrusters are reused. You can imagine, that equipment beeing launched into space doesn't fare well up there, and takes a lot of damage. Just look at the space shutle program, it had a huge death toll, compared to even the apollo program. All in all, reusable rockets are more expensive to make, they need so much fuel, that it would probably be cheaper to use a conventional rocket, to not speak of the maintenence a rocket requires, and that you need to interchange almost half the components before the next launche aswell, witch takes up a hughe ammount of time, and costs a lot of money. Also they can't travel as far, and have a hugh safety problem. So If they wouldn't try to make the rocket reusable they wouldn't need that huge thrust to get a car into space, and it wouldn't be as expensive.

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