He can only declare war for 60 days. Iran is up, Cuba next. Then Greenland, etc etc etc

And even thats not legal, its using made up reasons.

I believe the newer models are profitable yes, although not highly. And they still haven’t covered the cost of all the R&D, but selling a vehicle profitably, is the first step to that.

And yes, for what it was, the Bolt was good, its main drawback being the lack of high speed charging, but for a lot of people that was fine.

I never owned one so I can’t say this is true, but from what I read over the years, those early hybrids weren’t great for performance/driving feel compared to other vehicles. They worked, they were efficient, but at the time turning all their cars into it probably wasn’t a winning path.

The bolt wasn’t a profitable car. They used it to learn and get to the profitable vehicles they are making today.

Please come to Canada. I hate getting needles. I do it, but this would make things so much easier than 2 shots

The whole not easy to change part can be a little misleading too. They originally thought that was the case with covid vaccines and it turned out that was not the case. Turns out when there’s pressure, sometimes things actually can happen.

The RnD costs remain difficult to offset unless these companies have sufficient scale

Ya thats going to be deciding factor. Can you get enough users to offset it and stay alive before you run out of cash. If you slow down, and your competitors still have enough cash they’ll make a better product and you’ll start losing users.

Well said. He knew the risks.

Pretty much with anything ya.

Unless there’s some super important thing I need in the latest release, if my shit works and there’s no security vulnerability, im in no rush to update.

Part of the problem is also how many packages people bring in, even for the simplest of things.

I really like in the Expanse how they show that working with the ships where they flip themselves and then do another burn to stop.

Exactly. Then you move up to the $100 or $200 or per token API pricing levels.

Im not convinced something like Claude isnt profitable with enough users. I dont think people are spending more in compute than they pay.

Getting enough paying users though requires it to be better so more people will pay.

Obviously the free tier is at a loss, but I mean at a per paid user level.

Well damn, those solar panels would probably be at least a dozen Eiffel towers tall then.

SpaceX has made changes in the past so the dishes break up better. That could have been one of the earlier dishes, but maybe it was also one of the ones that failed to properly insert into orbit which changed the re-entry characteristics?

The big things like you mentioned wouldn’t be starlink. That’d be from something larger like a 2nd stage that came back down and didnt fully burn up. Thats a risk with everyone, mega constellation or not.

Luckily, starship will be fully reusable which will prevent that, but the trade off is, if starship is successful, a failure during re entry is going to risk having a vehicle designed not to burn up, land somewhere it shouldn’t.

Similar risks to the shuttle if it blew up, but these will be flying much more frequently

Nothing quite like that aluminum oxide! So refreshing!

How big do you think these are going to be? A lot of people seem to have this concept of these massive things in space and that’s not what it’s going to be.

Starlink v3 already need to radiate 20kw of heat away, these are going to be 100kw.

They aren’t huge, they are many.

Well, the heat generating datacenter part isn’t anyway… the solar panels and radiators will be quite large once unfolded.

Edit: Clarity above, but also here’s an image which they say is to scale.

See how small the actually data center portion is? Those solar panels are super thin and will fold up super tiny, and so will the radiator. Even if the radiator size is wrong, the main point is these things are small, and not what you should think of when you think data center. I think someone else likened the size to a server rack or two.

We would be pretty lucky if it impacted something like the ozone layer in a noticeable way as that’s something that can be seen and could be acted on and repaired as we’ve done before.

It’s the effects that we don’t know that are probably going to be the bigger problem.

That’s a bigger thing than just closing the spaceports to private companies as OP was suggesting.

That would likely be politically more difficult to pull off than closing existing ports.

edit: Just to clarify, one is saying, sorry you can’t use our public resources. The other is saying, sorry you can’t build your own resources either.

It ain’t going to happen with what we’re currently doing. The orbits are too low. It’ll just hamper things for 5 years or so if bad shit happens until everything burns up in the atmosphere.