Elon Musk, the billionaire futurist who once followed a woman on Twitter, on Thursday showcased a potential world-changing plan that could reshape the way humanity travels. A CGI demo debuted during the International Astronautical Congress in Australia showed the clearest, most exciting distillation of SpaceX's vision yet, with reusable rockets jettisoning global citizens beyond the somethingsphere and condensing their flights to any destination in the world to under an hour.
This is all made possible thanks to the BFR, which is (literally) short for Big Fucking Rocket. Bangkok to Dubai in 27 minutes! New York to Paris in 30 minutes! You could, theoretically, live in Florida and work in Los Angeles and be home in time for dinner, even though at that point you should probably just telecommute.
While an exact timeline was not provided, space travel is an exciting prospect, especially as the aerospace industry consolidates and a shrinking number of major airlines continue to—and this is an industry term—suck butt. There is, however, still quite a bit of work to do until this kind of travel sees the light of day:
One can reasonably expect SpaceX's service to debut sometime in 4032.