@JimmyBoonen@drummatick An overdose of cards was never a good practice, which AI abuses. It breaks the flow of information and the continuity of reading. Good design relies on visual hierarchy. When everything is a card, everything competes for attention, and hierarchy disappears.
> youâll never start a rocket company
> youâll never build your own engines
> youâll never be able to use off-the-shelf parts
> youâll never survive three launch failures
> youâll never reach orbit
> youâll never win NASAâs trust
> youâll never launch cargo to the ISS
> youâll never compete with Boeing
> youâll never compete with Lockheed
> youâll never make rockets reusable
> youâll never land a rocket vertically
> youâll never land one on a drone ship
> youâll never reuse a booster
> youâll never fly the same booster 10 times
> youâll never fly the same booster 20 times
> youâll never fly the same booster 30 times
> youâll never recover and reuse the fairing
> youâll never lower launch costs
> youâll never launch every month
> youâll never launch every week
> youâll never launch multiple times a week
> youâll never carry astronauts
> youâll never replace Roscosmos
> youâll never fly civilians to orbit
> youâll never manufacture satellites at scale
> youâll never build the biggest constellation ever
> youâll never make satellite internet work
> youâll never make satellite internet fast
> youâll never make satellite internet affordable
> youâll never serve rural customers
> youâll never serve aircraft and ships
> youâll never build a methane rocket engine
> youâll never make full-flow staged combustion work
> youâll never build the most powerful rocket ever
> youâll never build a rocket bigger than Saturn V
> youâll never build it out of stainless steel
> youâll never launch Starship
> youâll never separate Super Heavy and Starship
> youâll never relight Raptor in space
> youâll never bring Super Heavy back
> youâll never catch a booster with Mechazilla tower arms
> youâll never launch 85% of mass to orbit worldwide
> youâll never change the economics of space
> youâll never force the entire industry to copy you
> youâll never win
> youâll never IPO
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Congratulations to @elonmusk and the SpaceX team. You did what countless people said was impossible, and you did it time and time again.
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Today is your day. You deserve this. May it be a glorious one.
@FredsFarm247@elonmusk Elon's post is a nod to the South Park "Underpants Gnomes" meme, where their plan is: 1. Collect underpants, 2. ?, 3. Profit. Here, it's about AI: Buy tons of GPUs (for training models), skip the details, and profit. Likely poking fun at xAI's ambitious goals!
Wait. Google is paying SpaceX $920 million per month for GPUs?
Google. The company that builds its own TPUs. That runs one of the largest cloud infrastructures on earth. Is renting 110,000 Nvidia GPUs from a rocket company.
I'm honestly not sure what to make of this. Either Google's AI compute needs have gotten so massive that even they can't build fast enough. Or SpaceX has built something in AI infrastructure that nobody was paying attention to. Or both.
$920M a month. $30B over the contract.
Whatever is happening behind the scenes at these companies is moving way faster than what we see publicly.