Or maybe Tesla

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMKyocHwUJI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260202-musk-wants-to-merge-spacex-with-xai-then-go-public - podcast

time: 5 min 18 sec

UPDATE: the merge has gone through, apparently for “$250 billion” of imaginary value of private company equity

Has anyone done the math on if Elon can keep these plates spinning until he dies of old age or if it will implode sooner than that? I wouldn’t think he can keep this up another decade, but I wouldn’t have predicted Tesla limping along as long as it has even as Elon squeezes more money out of it, so idk. It would be really satisfying to watch Elon’s empire implode, but probably he holds onto millions even if he loses billions because consequences aren’t for the ultra rich in America.

Has anyone done the math on if Elon can keep these plates spinning until he dies of old age or if it will implode sooner than that? I wouldn’t think he can keep this up another decade, but I wouldn’t have predicted Tesla limping along as long as it has even as Elon squeezes more money out of it, so idk. It would be really satisfying to watch Elon’s empire implode, but probably he holds onto millions even if he loses billions because consequences aren’t for the ultra rich in America.

Or maybe Tesla

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMKyocHwUJI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260202-musk-wants-to-merge-spacex-with-xai-then-go-public - podcast

time: 5 min 18 sec

UPDATE: the merge has gone through, apparently for “$250 billion” of imaginary value of private company equity

SpaceX can’t go bankrupt… You won’t let us go bankrupt… It would be a shame if all those satellites lost their ability to be maintained. This is how he becomes too big to fail.

shame if all those satellites lost their ability to be maintained

I mean, what’s the worst that could happen? They’d just burn up in the atmosphere. More than likely the government would just take possession of the system if they had a critical dependency on them.

Kessler syndrome, and historically starlink’s satellites don’t always burn up in the atmosphere as they should

For the millionth time, if every satellite in the starlink constellation were to fail today, they would be gone in about five years at the high end. They are low enough in the atmosphere that they have to fire station-keeping rockets to maintain orbit. If they collide, the small pieces deorbit even faster due to drag.

From this article:

At around 400 kilometers and into the 500-km realm — home to ISS and the SpaceX Starlink satellites among others — atmospheric drag plays a major role. Dead satellites and debris usually slow and burn up in the atmosphere in just a few years. This natural cleansing process accelerates when the sun becomes more active and solar coronal mass ejections strike Earth and cause the atmosphere to swell.

“In those altitudes, we can probably do a lot and we will be forgiven,” Linares says.

For the millionth time, if every satellite in the starlink constellation were to fail today, they would be gone in about five years at the high end. They are low enough in the atmosphere that they have to fire station-keeping rockets to maintain orbit. If they collide, the small pieces deorbit even faster due to drag.

From this article:

At around 400 kilometers and into the 500-km realm — home to ISS and the SpaceX Starlink satellites among others — atmospheric drag plays a major role. Dead satellites and debris usually slow and burn up in the atmosphere in just a few years. This natural cleansing process accelerates when the sun becomes more active and solar coronal mass ejections strike Earth and cause the atmosphere to swell.

“In those altitudes, we can probably do a lot and we will be forgiven,” Linares says.

uh huh. spacex fans are fucking wild

SpaceX is actually really fucking successful, why would be destroy it by tainting it with shitty AI? Oh right, because he’s a moron who does way too much ketamine.

I’m assuming you mean operationally but not financially? They wouldn’t have to raise capital so much if it were financially so…

I’m using the success rate of the Falcon 9 rocket and how many launches they do as my metrics. If they’re not doing well financially then they’re making some questionable financial decisions.

I’m using the success rate of the Falcon 9 rocket and how many launches they do as my metrics. If they’re not doing well financially then they’re making some questionable financial decisions.

When Woke 2 comes, we’ll nationalize SpaceX.

SpaceX can’t go bankrupt… You won’t let us go bankrupt… It would be a shame if all those satellites lost their ability to be maintained. This is how he becomes too big to fail.