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Not only was Chat Control 1.0 already rejected twice by the European Parliament but: - This vote took place on last day of the session when many MEPs had already left for Summer va…

Today both "newspapers" lie about everything. Sad.

The US uses ~0.5 TW of electricity on average but to go 100% solar you would need ~3 TW of solar capacity (6X average usage) and ~30 TWh of battery storage, maybe lots more, plus a…

Chrysler (now Stellantis), Honda, Toyota and Geely all had/have rocketry divisions and many more auto companies have/are involved in the Aerospace industry more generally.

Musk never promised $1T revenue by 2030. Maybe that's the problem here.

I think there are other reasons and am capable of critical thought. A variety of synergies have been discussed publicly for at least 9 years. This article lists several of them.

This guy joked about it in 2013: https://x.com/Loh/status/362036803517169664 A Wall St analyst was asking questions about it on Tesla earnings calls in 2016 and later wrote a resea…

It's been discussed for at least a decade. A Wall St analyst even wrote a note suggesting it back in 2017 that was widely covered in the media. Most people think is very likely to …

Google is paying $12.00 per gpu-hour which costs SpaceX $1.50-$3.50. Who's taking advantage of who?

The saga of Musk's 2018 Tesla pay package. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/19/musk-tesla-pay-delaware-supr...

The list of people saying they're going to put compute in space is getting long. Unlikely they're all dumb or faking it. It is clearly technically feasible but how the economics wi…

No I don't ever give up. I would have to be dead or completely incapacitated. -Elon https://x.com/XFreeze/status/2012390928221094335

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It's a two-seater

Haha. It's less than 1,000 words that would take less than 5 minutes to read. I bet much less than half of the hundreds of HN commenters here bother to read it. Many are clearly un…

Google is currently working on AI data centers in space. https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/research/go...

What temperature were you assuming? Because the amount of energy radiated varies with the temperature to the fourth power (P=εσT^4). Assuming very good emissivity (ε=0.95) and ~75C…

Power would almost certainly mostly come from solar panels. The SpaceX-xAI press release mentions using mass drivers which are electrically powered. Could make Hydrogen-Oxygen rock…