Exactly the opposite. It's the grand marketing of an even grander vision - the ultimate vaporware.
Where people with can dream up supersonic aircraft that are massively more efficient than the highly refined subsonic craft that have been built by thousands of very smart people over decades.
Where magic tubes will transport people near the speed of sound whenever they want for a mere $6B.
Where the realities of space flight are to be ignored because, well, the leader of the venture is a really good business man and has a lot of charisma.
Is this not the same hacker news where people get bent out of shape when Apple bends the truth on their iPhone marketing copy?
Where people with can dream up supersonic aircraft that are massively more efficient than the highly refined subsonic craft that have been built by thousands of very smart people over decades.
Where magic tubes will transport people near the speed of sound whenever they want for a mere $6B.
Where the realities of space flight are to be ignored because, well, the leader of the venture is a really good business man and has a lot of charisma.
Is this not the same hacker news where people get bent out of shape when Apple bends the truth on their iPhone marketing copy?
Fuck Mars. I'm going to Jupiter. In 2015.
The emperor has no clothes.