The species bet
Musk has said for two decades that consciousness should not sit on a single planet. SpaceX exists to drive launch costs down until a city on Mars is not a movie. In 2016 he sketched that architecture at the International Astronautical Congress. In 2026 he still talks Mars, while naming a self-growing lunar city as the faster civilizational insurance policy.
Falcon 9's landings made reuse ordinary. Starship is the vehicle sized for people and cargo, not postcards. That is why a booster slamming onto a drone ship belongs on this page: it is the proof that the next step is engineering, not wish.
