Musk has said that Starship might allow “Earth-to-Earth” travel. One X user wrote: “Under Trump’s FAA, @SpaceX could.
Even get Starship Earth-to-Earth approved in a few years – that would enable travel between any city in the world in under an hour.”
Musk said, “It’s now possible.” Tech tycoons often make big promises they can’t keep. In 2016, he promised fully autonomous Teslas by 2017. Tesla Autopilot.
Still needs driver monitoring in 2024. He projected autonomous robotaxis by 2020, but that hasn’t happened.
An underwater road and train tunnel linking southern Denmark and northern Germany is being developed, but a transatlantic tunnel is still far off.
The 18-kilometer Fehmarnbelt Tunnel will run more than 40 meters beneath the Baltic Sea and reduce travel time between.
