Starship Rocket launch livestream

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So many school lunches burned up in a few minutes...

Yep - if we put that amount of money into fighting poverty, or world wide education,or finding a cure for cancer or, heaven forfend, a cure for human stupidity, who knows what we might achieve...

Space travel has been criticized for these reasons for decades now, but at least in this case its private enterprise and not govt money being burned up, its in their interests to make it cheap and affordable as possible with reusable rockets.
Its also worth mentioning that there is a number of drugs being developed in space as we speak, drugs that can potentially treat cancer, so cheaper access to space is a win win.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/20/startups...pace-.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...eaper.html
Also the benefits to humanity with starlink that this rocket will be necessary for to launch the number of satellites required is significant.