[HumanReadable]

Of course the Falcon can be compared to the SLS. Both are vehicles designed to take things into space for crying out loud!

The figures are easy to compare as well. Just include these factors in your comparison! Even if we don't know exactly what those factors are, we can make a ballpark estimate the total difference and add that as a percentage to spaceX's final figure.

The idea that things can't be compared because they are different is nonsense. When things are different is the only time comparisons are meaningful to make!

[4gotunameagain]

>Both are vehicles designed to take things into space for crying out loud!

They have quite different fairing capacities, in a playfield that does not scale linearly.

It is like saying that the Boeing 737 is cheaper than the 777, and we can compare them because they were both designed to fly people in the sky.

[panick21_]

You can compare a 737 to 777 and if the 777 per person were 10x more expensive then airlines wouldnt use 777. Not sure why this is hard do unterstand.

[4gotunameagain]

Because things in space do not scale linearly, and sending 10x smaller sats is not the same as 1x 10 times larger sat. Some missions require larger fairing/lifting capacities.