Originally Posted by
OldnGrounded
It looks like it would make a decent silo, if the space trip thing doesn't work out.
Or a water tower. Both Starhopper and the Mk1 Starship prototype (that just failed) were built by a water tower company, on the basis that it's a whole lot faster and cheaper than building it with conventional aerospace techniques.
To everyone complaining about what it looks like - it's a test vehicle, designed to experiment with manufacturing techniques quickly and cheaply and then get destroyed during testing (although not quite this early). Why would they waste time and money making it pretty? SpaceX had already decided not to fly this one and (as far as I can tell) they've also decided not to bother flying its successor - they're moving right on to getting the third prototype built. With that said, the final one is also expected to have a shiny stainless steel finish, on the basis that this works as well as white paint (for keeping it from warming up in the sun) and weighs less.