“SpaceX is doing great but I want some of that AI investment money.”
xAI joins SpaceX
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#562Can someone convince me that this is not a) pure horseshit b) a plan for Elon to sneak enough mass into orbit to hold the Earth hostage?
If you can bring millions of tons of anything into orbit around Earth you can destroy civilization, or just France.
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#563isn't this just fraud in broad daylight? I don't get it. Why not at least try to hide it?
How do you keep these kind of things under the radar anyway?
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#564"Launching a constellation of a million satellites that operate as orbital data centers is a first step towards becoming a Kardashev II-level civilization"
So, basically give ourselves Kessler syndrome. Or is Elon trying to monopolize orbit entirely?
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#565From a technical point of view this doesn't make any sense.
From a finance and accounting point of view this makes everything more cloudy. Which certain types of people really like.
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#566Earlier quoted context omitted.
We don’t even have a habitable structure in space when the ISS falls, there is no world in which space datacenters are a thing in the next 10, I’d argue even 30 years. People really need to ground themselves in reality. Edit: okay Tiangong - but that is not a data center.
Ok then short SpaceX stock when it IPOs.
As if company performance actually affected stock price when it comes to anything Elon Musk touches.
For fuck's sake, TSLA has a P/E of a whopping *392*. There is zero justification for how overvalued that stock is. In a sane world, I should be able to short it and 10x my money, but people are buying into Musk's hype on FSD, Robotaxi, and whatever the hell robot they're making. Even if you expected them to be successes, they'd need to 20x the company's entire revenue to justify the current market cap.
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#567When Elon Musk talks about benefiting humanity, remember that the one time he had unregulated power (DOGE) he used it mostly to cut benefits for poor people, and to push ideological agendas. His only agenda is self-aggrandizement, and this announcement is cover for passing the hot potato of Twitter debt around.
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#568> it is possible to put 500 to 1000 TW/year of AI satellites into deep space, meaningfully ascend the Kardashev scale and harness a non-trivial percentage of the Sun’s power We currently make around 1 TW of photovoltaic cells per year, globally. The proposal here is to launch that much to space every 9 hours, complete with attached computers, continuously, from the moon. edit: Also, this would capture a very trivial…
Is there a credible way to cool a space-based data center on that scale?
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#569Re: xAI joins SpaceX
#570In other news, Kessler Syndrome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ag6gSzsGbc