Comment by JumpCrisscross
13 hours ago
> Were we struggling to do this before?
We literally couldn't.
> Was the overall percentage reduction in costs?
Starship will bill NASA 1/20th what SLS does.
> What is now enabled?
LEO. Artemis. Out of all of these companies, being confused about SpaceX is super weird.
If SpaceX was only Starlink or only Starlink and rockets it would be an horrible circumvention of the rules.
But now he's also trying to get the indexes to pay for the giant cash fire called X.ai and the far right huddle Twitter too.
I have zero interest in owning anything of either of those companies.
Granted, I only skimmed some high-line numbers, but isn't their only profitable project Starlink? SpaceX is functionally a satellite internet company that happens to make rockets.
> isn't their only profitable project Starlink? SpaceX is functionally a satellite internet company that happens to make rockets
Yes. The thing that’s going public is almost entirely an AI play.
They seems to have decent revenue leasing compute to Anthropic.
I think you missed the core of their question: What has actually gotten better in practical terms for the average American?
> What has actually gotten better in practical terms for the average American?
Starlink has made connectivity cheaper and more available. Earth imaging has made various food production processes more efficient. Weather forecasts have become more accurate.
If you’ve genuinely missed the massive economy that LEO has become, it will be a fun thing to catch up on.
> Starlink has made connectivity cheaper and more available.
Yeah that's working out great for the average American isn't it (https://natlawreview.com/press-releases/2026-consumer-trust-...)
> Earth imaging has made various food production processes more efficient.
I'm not even going to bother sourcing the fact that food prices have only massively gone up negating any gains in productivity. The average American struggling to buy basics like eggs and meat aren't feasting on more efficient food production.
> Weather forecasts have become more accurate.
I'm sure the growing homeless population is happy to know they can better predict the weather they'll be sleeping in.
This is all totally worth supporting a nazi billionaire
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Do we apply a bar this high for any other company/job/business? Saving gov/tax money aka "billing NASA 1/20th what SLS does" doesn't count as worth it to you?
Reusing rockets reliably rather than "throwing them away" is a great achievement and I'm surprised people have to justify it on HN
> Reusing rockets reliably rather than "throwing them away" is a great achievement and I'm surprised people have to justify it on HN
You can milk a cow only a set number of times!
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Stock prices indicate the present value of all future dividends, so it's not about what has happened but about the risk-adjusted expected value of all which is to come.
What probability you assign to arrive at that expected value and how you adjust for risk is on you.