>>16777472
and we still will be 40000 years in the future. 1911 forever baby.

>>16777491
even if the rocket is fully reusable and absolutely nothing goes wrong during the entire process, 10 launches is still 52,500 metric tons of propellant
52 million killograms. of liquid fuel and oxydizer. (assuming v3 is used, v4 is even more than that)

that isn't taking into account bleedoff during propload due to holds and scrubs, so the real number is going to be even higher than that. feel free to run the calculations of how much that will cost to buy, if that much is even *available*. They really need a dedicated fuel production factory next to starbase to supply the fuel for that many launches. If they wait too long between launches the fuel in the ship will boil off in space meaning they would need even more launches.

granted it won't be 4 billion or however much SLS launches cost but it's still going to be hugely expensive. Again, assuming everything goes right. I don't doubt spaceX but if anything goes wrong during those 10 flights that results in the target ship being damaged then it's all over and they would need to bring it back to earth and start again, likely having to dump all of the prop in the ship in the process otherwise it will be too heavy to land on the chopsticks.