• humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    SpaceX and Xai merger started with the complete fraud that datancenters in space are an economically viable proposition, when even in the US, solar and batteries on leased Nebraska farmland, is over 5x cheaper, even with most optimistic launch cost assumptions.

    Adding jump thrusters to cars is an unrealistic/impractical fraud to justify a spacex tesla merger.

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      It’s to pretend they’re actually doing something when people dropped deposits on the 2020 roadster in 2017.

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      That ignores the part where data centers in space are just stupidly complicated to currently basically being impossible

      You have to start with little things like network latencies, but when you get to heat dissipation things just get stupid.

      Then again, stupid impossible is kinda Elmo’s modus operandi. Just claim you’ll do something stupid and or impossible, people will dance for you, then you just get billions to spend a fee years pretending that you’re actually doing it and then you, you know, just dont do it. Elmo musk in a nutshell. IH, that and Hitler babies, that too is his thing