Nice answer, seems pretty feasible too. Maybe in the future, the transportation to Mars will not really be a spaceship, but more of a modular space station built piece by piece as the demand grows.

The question also makes some weird assumptions, such as that neutrinos can travel much farther than light. We are studying light which was left over from the end of the big bang, so even if it's true, it's irrelevant.

I know it's possible to change videos after they have been uploaded, but there seems to be a limit of 100k views after which the videos are locked down. I'm not sure how they managed to avoid this limit, maybe the view count of past streams starts from zero again after the stream is over?

@AnthonyX: Not really, I'm pretty sure that the fairing is rather stiff when attached. Though it would be interesting to see just how soft they could make it without crumpling at Max Q. Also, one could possibly make up for a thinner fairing by pressurizing it, but the weight of the gas could probably overcome the savings.

@uhoh: Yeah, I noticed as well. Americans aren't the only ones getting caught in difficult unit conversions. Maybe it's time to finally introduce metric time :-)

I guess, but it might look like a conflict of interest, you knew about the change and might have discouraged others from answering by removing it. I'm not gonna take it so seriously, just something that crossed my mind. I wish it was possible to edit the bounty message though, I seem to have broken formatting in it as well.

Thanks for answering. Why did you remove the edit from the question though?