The people that matter know what’s going on regardless of what Russia says.

Cuz he was a police officer?

hair analysis was extra super bullshit pushed by the govt. hopefully drug dogs will eventually be similarly discredited.

Spacex wasn’t talking about building starship before f1 got to orbit.

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"planned prices" aren't competitive with anything because they're not actual prices.

People say all sorts of shit when it doesn't cost them anything to say it. Are they taking guaranteed orders at that price? If not, it's not even worth discussing.

> If Neutron is priced at $50M

That is obviously correct but it's a paper rocket goal price. Too many people assuming it's a real price of a real rocket that exactly hits ever goal.

Wake me up when you can sign a contract locking in that price.

Looking at what he's said/done about EVs it seems like he's usually pretty honest about this kind of thing.

The real differentiator is execution. Competitors don't have the same level of execution because no one else is willing to push as hard.

> Terran R

That's pie in the sky at this point. They can't even make orbit.

Everyone comparing a paper rocket "price" to a flying rocket actual price.

it's not when people abuse it

https://www.google.com/search?q=gwynne+starlink+profitable

And I listed a bunch of other things that also fund spacex. Starlink is only one part.

In addition to all the things I listed previously, they also sell spaceflights to civilians.

You're really rabbit holeing on one thing -- you're wrong about that but even if you're right the original statement STILL holds. SpaceX doesn't need nasa to get humans on mars, it just makes it easier.

Of course they aren't actually going to go to mars without nasa - nasa will get on board the SpaceX plan at some point - too embarrassing to get left behind. But SpaceX COULD

However, NASA cannot keep astronauts on the ISS full time without either SpaceX or Russia.

Yes in the past that was true. In the future it’s not. Gwynne said it’s profitable this year.

You also ignored all the other parts.

TSLA and starlink is profitable this year and that will only grow.

Also outside investors. Those investors have been lining up with no short term goal for profit.

Plus they launch for other companies.

See. That wasn’t so hard.

Spacex doesn’t need nasa to fly astronauts to space.

Nasa needs spacex (or Russia) to fly astronauts to space. (More than once every couple years at least and for less than a billion dollars per person)

Spacex NEEDED nasa for sure at one point but that point has come and gone. Nasa is a great partner but is no longer required.

That works in a lot of other businesses, but Elon's companies don't play by the usual rules of just trying to be slightly better than the competition.

There is no sane business reason to build Starship. Yet they're going all in on it.

“I’m sorry but…”

You’re not sorry.

it would likely kill SLS, though.

If you can't make a human rated rocket for this much in R&D and this much per launch... honestly not sure how you lie to the public even more than they already have.

Who do you trust?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_ignition_switch_recalls

> if they decide it's cheaper and more profitable to let you burn to death.

Yes, I've seen fight club, too.

For anyone curious, this appears to be a software issue but cannot be fixed over the air like it would on a Tesla. It requires making an appointment going in to a dealership - a traditional recall.

Put content in the title. "question" is not content.

And how would we "run out of water"? What does that even mean? Where did it go?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2022/08/13/betelgeuse-blew-its-top-hubble-sees-red-supergiant-star-bouncing-after-catastrophic-upheaval/?sh=55bbaa72500f

> Scientists don’t expect Betelgeuse’s weird behavior to result in a supernova explosion anytime soon

stars don't just randomly go supernova. There is a long and predictable lifecycle of stars that lasts way longer than 500ish years.

That wasn't the question. If it already supernova'd then the chances of it doing it in the next 100 years are 0.

Where do you think the cost of a stinger missile goes to? I’m not sure smaller is cheaper. I mean sometimes smaller is more expensive.

I doubt the cost is significantly around the size of the warhead or amount of propellant.