If this is the top comment here people are most certainly going to respond to it and talk about why they hate Elon instead of 'appreciating what Starship represents.'

What motivates someone to make this kind of comment and derail the conversation from the technical stuff?

Elon Musk decided to be explicitly partisan during one of the most politically divisive periods in American history. Nobody hates him because of his rockets, they hate him because he has taken many, many political and social stances that have nothing to do with his companies.

If you're going to blame anyone, blame Musk for derailing his own companies' missions by taking sides politically as loudly as he has. He's a very poor representative for the things that actually matter.

If that means "packing space into a box owned by a rich asshole", I'll pass. It hands even more money to a man who spent a billion dollars trying to buy an election, and he failed only because he so monstrously fucked up the country that not even that much money could salvage it.

It is a remarkable technical achievement. That is nowhere near my top priority. I'm not even certain I like "containerization of space".

I appreciate Starship quite a lot, but it's much more sad that there are millions of dead people because of his other activities (cutting USAID). It's not reasonable to ignore this just because it sounds so bad it can't possibly be true. There has been no serious disagreement on whether this happened! That's more people dead from Elon than Americans dead from COVID-19!

https://mortality47.org/deaths/usaid-cuts https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-cholera-deaths-trum... https://www.refugeesinternational.org/statements-and-news/ju...

I’m just waiting for them to paint the ships in bright colors with bumblebee patterns to ring in that Terran Trade Authority vibe.

Unfortunately they're the sort of people that if Elon Musk came out and said he was going to fund a cure for cancer they'd have a problem with it.

Nobody hates Musk for his rockets or cars.

It might be more related to snapping a Nazi salute at a Presidential inauguration and constantly promoting “race science” on X. That kind of thing.

If he had just shut up and built rockets and cars he’d be a hero like he was before he either got fash pilled or revealed himself. Not sure which it is but it doesn’t matter at this point.

I’ve never seen anyone burn that much goodwill.

The biggest thing I hate about it is the damage he’s done to the idea of a human future in space. It’s an important idea that needs better advocates.