[nickik]

What I don't understand about people like you is how you can still talk this crap.

Musk has done incredible stuff already, he has shown multiple prototypes of what they are building. Sure, maybe they will fail, but I don't understand how you can call everything "empty promises".

He promised a orbital rocket landing, he delivered.

He promised a reusable rocket, this he is very close to as a used rocket was already did multiple full duration test fires.

He promised a new engine, he shows this new engine and its first tests.

He actually delivered a prototype of a carbon-fiber tank that literally nobody in the community was expecting.

Will people like you only be happy if there are 1 Million people living on Mars?

It seems to me that you have never read the actual communication and you are just going of on statements by third parties.

[M_Grey]

It seems to me that you've decided I fit some kind of preconceived archetype "people like you", which largely seems to consist of a lack of faith. "He's done X, why not Y?" Because when he promised X, he did so with a plan which accounted for the issues inherent in X. This is not the case for the orders-of-magnitude more ambitious Y.

"He's done incredible stuff, so take him at his word" is the kind of nearly religious suspension of logic I'm talking about, mixed with equally unfortunate hostility at the "unbelievers" (aka 'people like me'). That you end with a note of incredulity at the notion that I could have arrived at my viewpoints while fully informed walks the fine line between insulting me, and insulting yourself.