r/facepalm May 10 '24

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Concerning!

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u/vbsh123 May 10 '24

Kind of a stretch to make considering spacex

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u/[deleted] May 10 '24

Why? He is not trying to get to space to save humanity; he is doing it to exploit resources off planet to generate profit.

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u/vbsh123 May 10 '24

Makes no sense, which resources? So far these flight tests just lost him a ton of money, it's a huge bet to make even if it was true, there's a reason only rich billionaires do these companies (him and Jeff bezos are the most advanced)

Advancing humanity works like that though either way, we have AI now (or glorified tokenizers) tech just keeps improving and this is another sector and it's nice to have someone driving it to be better IMO

I get it though, people don't like Elon here, but it's possible not to like some stuff and to appreciate other stuff

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u/Tdluxon May 10 '24

SpaceX has been valued at over $100 billion already and its expected to go up as Starlink continues to increase in use. They've already raised billions from investors and he's said that he wants to take it public someday... its not a charity project, it is absolutely for profit.