Earth-to-Earth Starship: How SpaceX Is About to Revolutionize Travel and Shrink the World
Starship will transform not just Space, but Earth, in exactly the same way that airliners and automobiles changed a world of steamships, trains, and horses. Our latest Deep Dive.
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by Rod D. Martin
May 29, 2025
In every age, there comes a machine that changes the world. Not merely through novelty or incremental progress, but by upending the logic of time and space itself. The Roman road. The steamship. The railroad. The jet engine. The Internet. Each reshaped civilization, rewrote expectations, and redrew maps.
Even more than AI (which he’s also creating), Elon Musk’s Starship is that next machine.
It was built to colonize Mars. But before it ever leaves Earth orbit, Starship is about to make oceans irrelevant. In fact, before it becomes the backbone of multiplanetary civilization, it will become the fastest way to get from New York to Shanghai, from Dubai to Los Angeles, from Seoul to Buenos Aires.
We’re not talking about faster planes or better airports. …