Elon Musk reveals SpaceX's 230-foot-wide orbital AI data center satellite ahead of IPO

[LordVile95]

Contradicting yourself now. 50% is the real percentage.

I don’t think you know what contradicting means

And he didn't even make $1m in todays money. That's not really that rich, that's a house in Australia.

And your source for that is?

Guess it's rich for someone who probably lives on handouts like yourself.

Sure bud. Fact is he co owned an emerald mine in top of other things. The family was rich and Elon benefited from it, as much as he wants to be Steve jobs he never will be.

 

[Endymio]

Sure bud. Fact is he co owned an emerald mine in top of other things. The family was rich and Elon benefited from it, as much as he wants to be Steve jobs he never will be.

It may soothe an inflamed inferiority complex to believe this, but both statements are false. The family never owned even a portion of any emerald mine (the original false claim was an "apartheid diamond mine"), and Musk left his father's home to go live with his Canadian mother as a teenager. The total "benefit from riches" he received was one $28K loan, which is considerably smaller than a low-income applicant to the SBA can receive.

 

[wiyosaya]

Musk's reality has earned him a trillion dollars. Your reality has you complaining you can't afford a new stick of RAM for your videogame machine.

Your reality has you commenting on people whom you know absolutely nothing about.

Appeal to authority noted, ridiculed, and discarded. You're not an expert in the right field to even be discussing this.

 

[wiyosaya]

Nobody said it will not work, seriously? Why don't you look around?
But you're right, some "experts" also claim it makes no sense economically. Probably that's why we're about to see the greatest IPO of all time - everyone's obsessed with investing in stuff that make no economic sense. Especially when the guy in charge has money, but, as you say money doesn't make you an expert.
It doesn't matter that Musk launched more rockets and satellites than the rest of the world combined, that doesn't make him an expert in rockets and satellites. He also built the largest datacenters on earth in time nobody believed possible, but of course he's no expert in datacenters either. You are the expert, without quotation marks.

fElon pumped money into this. It was his minions that made it work, not fElon. If you think fElon actually knows anything about the science behind it, please pass me some of what you are smoking. Maybe it will make the money, itself, an expert that is capable of building and launching rockets. Need I remind you that SpaceX as well as Blue Origin have ROYALTY FREE access to NASA's entire library of IP?

 

[Endymio]

fElon pumped money into this. It was his minions that made it work, not fElon. If you think fElon actually knows anything about the science behind it, please pass me some of what you are smoking.

This is why no one takes you seriously. We've had "the science" to do what SpaceX and Tesla are doing for decades. But far more often than not, the hard part isn't the science itself, but commercializing it and bringing it to market. Musk has a special aptitude for that, and for separating the wheat of good ideas from the chaff of those doomed to fail.

Need I remind you that SpaceX as well as Blue Origin have ROYALTY FREE access to NASA's entire library of IP?

Oops! Firstly, as a government agency, most of NASA's IP portfolio is in the public domain .. and what portions are not are licensable to all companies on a equal basis. Any company *could* have used that same IP on the same basis as SpaceX ... how many of them did?

Even worse is how little NASA IP SpaceX is actually using. Did you ever see a fully-reusable NASA rocket? Or one powered with methane engines, or able to balance on its tail while landing? SpaceX dominates NEO space because they reinvented the rocket from ground up.
NASA was often lucky to manage 3 launches a year: SpaceX does five a week. NASA's ground operations required up to 25,000 people for one launch: SpaceX does it with 150. And their iterative engineering methodology couldn't be more different than the rest of the aerospace industry ... despite the fact that Musk HIRED his team from those other firms ... but then gave them free reign to do what their past employers would not.

As for calling Musk "fElon", that's more an expression juvenile hatred and envy than anything else.

 

[pnntmp]

Need I remind you that SpaceX as well as Blue Origin have ROYALTY FREE access to NASA's entire library of IP?

What's accessible to them is also accessible to you. Now show me your rockets.