[Planktonne]

SpaceX's own mission statement doesn't mention becoming part of a community of civilisations [1]. It mentions making humans multiplanetary, but that is a very different aim [2]. Further, it's a good idea to be skeptical of corporate mission statements generally.

SpaceX is doing exciting stuff in the field of rocketry; that's really happening and it's worth being excited about, but they aren't doing more. It's misguided and dangerous to treat them as utopian idealists.

[1] https://www.spacex.com/mission/

[2] https://www.gutenbergcanada.ca/ebooks/lewiscs-outofthesilent...

[WalterBright]

> but they aren't doing more

Criminy, aren't they doing great? I finally found a way to buy some shares of SpaceX. I don't even care if that investment does badly, I just want to share in a tiny bit of SpaceX.

> dangerous

?? On the scale of things that terrify me, SpaceX doesn't move the needle.

[mr_toad]

If Starship isn’t designed to go to Mars and back they’ve made some odd design choices.

[SyzygistSix]

Musk has acknowledged that he considers colonizing Mars a step to becoming extrasolar eventually, not that SpaceX plans to do that itself.