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I wonder how many folks have looked at the other details of Starship.

One I find most impressive?

Weight of Starship when fueled: 11 million pounds

That’s so hard to comprehend. I used to operate a 25ton crane. That’s less than half of 1% of Starship. That made me think it’s in the magnitude of a skyscraper. Apparently the Empire State Building is “only” 7 million pounds. What the fuck.

Transposed digits? According to Wiki the ESB is 80 times heavier:

> According to official fact sheets, the Empire State Building weighs 365,000 short tons (331,122 t)

But Eiffeltower is only double the weight with 10100 tons.

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