A final word to all the activists, politicians, and media elites:
❌ This is not your country to give.
❌ This is not your country to “welcome” us to.
🇦🇺 This is OUR country—paid for in blood.
And we are DONE asking for permission to stand on it. 11/12
“The World Has Never Seen Anyone Like
Elon Musk”
Fixing the Government, “If not Elon Musk, then who?
- The man launches over 90% of the world's tonnage into outer space each year
- He owns the first new car company to start from scratch and obtain profitability in over a hundred years
- He has pioneered full self-driving
- He employs over 100,000 people
- He launches a rocket into orbit every 2 1/2 days
- SpaceX has created access to low cost broadband internet to anywhere in the world because we are very spoiled in the west (Most of the world does not have cable that runs to their homes like we do in the west)
- He has literally reduced the cost of going into space x10 compared to what the federal government was doing with NASA showing extreme efficiency (And he did so as a private in the private sector, which no one thought was possible before)
- SpaceX is the highest valued company in the US and maybe even the world at 350 billion
- He started X AI only a year ago, and it's already valued at $78 billion and is the most advanced AI in the world connecting more Nvidia GPUs than anyone previously thought possible (Again, doing something that no one previously thought possible and he did all of this in about a sixth of a time that it took any of the magnificent seven or leading tech AI companies. So again, extreme efficiency)
- He single-handedly saved free speech in the west by buying Twitter, and X is valued at 44 billion
- He cut 80% of the X workforce and increased gross margins by 4x in profitability. Profitability by 2.5x (And yes, we all know that revenue declined because he stood for free speech. So he lost advertising dollars, but he saved free speech. So thanks)
- This doesn't even touch Neuralink, which is valued at 8 billion
- The boring company, which is valued at 7 billion
- Tesla robots or the Hyperloop at Neuralink
- He's literally working to cure blindness, paralysis and working to allow communication with people who were previously unable to communicate
- He's solving traffic congestion and reimagining our transportation, making that again, more efficient
And while he's doing all of this, he's literally
Volunteering like 20 hours a day to help the American people.
The world has never seen anyone like
Elon Musk.
I genuinely feel bad for those who are not intelligent enough to appreciate Elon Musk and what he's doing for society because accomplishing just one of the things that he's accomplished in a lifetime would far exceed everyone else on the face of this earth. And since it's so easy, why don't you do it all?
So again, if not Elon, then who?”
@ajtourville Are they taking the piss now? It's in the middle of the Nullarbor, a loooooong way from any source of demand. The transmission losses will be absolutely stupifying. How much tax payer billions will this put into the pockets of carpetbaggers over the course of its brief life?
This is what will matter 1000 years from now.
Not your politics. Not your stupid tantrums about who platformed who on some website. Not your incomprehensible desire to send NASA's entire budget to the third world.
This guy reignited the Space Age.
He spent his own money, hired a bunch of dudes, and reignited the Space Age. And together, they underbid and outdid NASA and its pet dinosaur corporations on every conceivable level.
This is history happening before you.
If you are a puddlefish, if you think this is a wasteful showpiece or science project, then you don't understand physics, economics, astronomy, or in fact the basic layout of the universe you live in.
We live in a tiny puddle at the bottom of a well.
Out there is an entire universe, full not only of stuff to explore, but full of stuff to build things out of.
Big things. Wonderful things. Things that are going to make all of the cool stuff you have today, all of human civilization to date look like early Assyrians writing stuff down on wet clay with a reed.
Infinite resources. Infinite energy. Infinite space.
Instead of fighting over little patches of land, we will have an infinite 3d volume. Enclose it in steel, pump it full of air, spin it, and it's a habitat.
Instead of scratching tiny scraps of metal out of the crust of one planet, we will break down entire asteroids and smelt them.
Instead of drilling for hydrocarbons and turning water wheels, we will harness entire suns, split the atom, and eventually draw our fuel from the substance that makes up 99% of the entire universe.
None of your local, temporal Earth politics matter compared to this. This is more important than pride parades and abortions, more important than tribal conflicts in eastern Europe and southwest Asia, more important than tensions with Russia and China.
More important, in the long run, than the United States of America.
America's most important function, its one most vital purpose, is to serve as an incubator for this.
Because this changes everything.
All of our arguments about conditions on this planet become obsolete, because the whole planet becomes just one suburban neighborhood.
All of our wars over resources and territory become obsolete, because no one has time to brawl when we're all sitting on top of a dragon horde with sacks and shovels.
Everyone who was alive at the time remembers where they were when Kennedy died in Dallas. When the towers fell. When the Eagle landed. When the Wall came down.
But this... this is the real moment, one of the first of many. They are what every child will know about a thousand years from now, even if they have four arms and are genetically engineered for zero-g, or are sentient blocks of code running on a sphere of computronium enclosing an entire star.
You may not live to see that, depending on what we do or don't invent, and when.
But it will happen, and you will live to see wonderful things.
If the puddlefish don't get in the way.
Don't be a puddlefish.
@MarcusHouse Now we just need to hope for the same conditions on Starship re-entry. Imagine the onboard views of Starship entering the atmosphere in similar clear conditions.
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