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Jesus Christ you people really have no idea how space works, do you?
The guy can't just send up his own spacecraft anymore than Lockheed Martin and Raytheon can declare war on Russia.
SpaceX sells spacecraft to NASA for them to use in the same way LM sells F-18's to the Navy for them to use. At no point in time does Elon just get to unilaterally send civilians to Mars even if Starship was fully capable.
Everything SpaceX craft do in space is under the charter and dictation of NASA, and at the current point in time, exclusively for government/military missions. Not his own flights of fancy.
Hence the "if he could."
Hence why it's a pointless comment.
Elon can't do it, great. Next!
Seems like you’ve missed the things he’s literally said about literally sending his own spaceship to Mars. For all mankind is a great show but Jesus Christ y’all.