@DerekSc55318066@w709862376@fatyurilover300 Never claimed it would be cheaper for you specifically. Reading comprehension is important. Also, starship will be able to lower the bandwidth cost by 7-10 times. It won’t be niche like you’re claiming.
@DerekSc55318066@w709862376@fatyurilover300 It won’t be a niche product when starship scales up. They’ll have easily hundreds of million of users using those terminals. And they’ll have the economics to put price pressure on big telecoms. The business just barely started growing lol.
@rah_66_comanche Also tom mueller isn’t listed officially as a founder of spacex, and that’s the exact requirement that people use to deny Elon being a founder of Tesla. Either way it’s not an important distinction.
@gowronseyes@SwannMarcus89 You said SLS was better than what spacex has because it’s the only thing capable rn of sending people to the moon. It’s the only thing flying rn because it existed 4 decades ago. Only way spacex would have something better is if they wasted billions years before the contract.
@gowronseyes@SwannMarcus89 “Wow it’s embarrassing that spacex didn’t waste billions building a spacecraft that can send people to the moon for no reason.”
Are you 5 years old, dude? How is this even a sentence by a grown person?
@gowronseyes@SwannMarcus89 They are dude. The SLS is made from parts that are like 4 decades old. Spacex is a bit over 2 decades old. Starship HLS exists.
Are you angry that spacex wasn’t born 4 decades ago??
@gowronseyes@SwannMarcus89 Spacex takes >90% of tonnage to orbit. Dominating space fight isn’t determined by who can wasted ten of billion on an obsolete and stupid launch vehicle based on decades old tech to send a useless spacecraft around the moon. Lmao
@shrimpala@rah_66_comanche@eimmaginary Nope. Spacex could be making 100 billion or more in profit from Starlink. So 1 trillion in market cap is easily cleared. Again, what investors are pricing in is data centers in orbit. That’s what all of the debate is about.
@50shadesofgay_A@rah_66_comanche@eimmaginary false on all accounts. The falcon 9 failures rate before it became reusable wasn’t even close to 50-60%. Also NASA couldn’t develop falcon 9 because it’s managed by congress which cares about jobs programs, which is why the SLS exists and costs billions per flight.
@shrimpala@rah_66_comanche@eimmaginary A trillion in market cap is easily covered by Starlink. The extra is investors pricing in the potential for spacex having a monopoly on space data centers.
I am filled with optimism at the fact that the world's first trillionaire was made not by hedge funds or market manipulation, but by building the infrastructure to take America to the stars.
@KazdelDengist@teortaxesTex Not even close. Launch is actually a rounding error using 4 million a flight and 200 tons(V4 ships). It’s going to be funny looking back at how many people were utterly wrong about space data centers.
@RCownie@bbCaulk@ApoStructura Yeah that guy is an idiot and he’s wrong on all accounts. The radiator claim is ESPECIALLY wrong tho. Oh and his weight calculation included the ENTIRE GB300 rack and steel frame weight which will be deleted for obvious reasons. Are you being serious???
120kW worth of B200s run close to $5M. The chips are easily less than half the TCO of a terrestrial inference cluster.
SpaceX already builds and launches sats about a quarter of the mass of their tentative 120kW AI1 design for ~$1.4M.
Roughly half that cost is launch and expected to dramatically drop with Starship; the other half is expected to come down more modestly with economies of scale and maturing industrial processes.
And radiators and coolant pumps are cheaper than phased array antennas...
"No one who understands this stuff doubts that it's possible. They just doubt the economics."
Good, now do the math and stop pretending that doubting the economics is a more rational position than expecting it to work out.