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> Don't forget about the astronomers complaining about the global internet being provided by Starlink affecting their precious telescopes, while ignoring the mi

> Don't forget about the astronomers complaining about the global internet being provided by Starlink affecting their precious telescopes, while ignoring the minor detail that Starship will be able to launch a JWST-sized telescope weekly if they want to get above the atmosphere. Here comes elon zealot just copy and pasting empty claims and ignoring the actual facts we have. The lack of accountability is just staggering. And the only defense is a cave man ad hominem - oh they are just butt hurt anti-elons. Elon Musk has a long list of bogus claims, outright lies and now currently on trail for fraud. His shtick is to make semi-revolutionary clam in X years, and before people start asking about that claim in near future he is making new claims about something completely new. Thats why people are calling him out on his BS claims. So lets have a look: The re-usability claims are all bogus, a make believe at best. For one, Starship is basically an early prototype rocket. Two, falcon 5 - a much simpler design - has current re-usability window at one month (as far as i remember). How do you go into weekly launches... Empty claims of Elon Musk that they will work out the kinks are akin to Elisabeth Holmes claims. Or self driving tesla Next Year(tm), or underground tunnels, or hypelink, or amazing AI robot buttler all next year (tm). Not to mention pretty strong evidence for Kessler Syndrome is already happening. And polluting orbit with starlinks are not helping. global internet being provided by Starlink - you mean a toy for rich. Right? Cuz even tough it somewhat affordable now, for starlink to actually make money need and will cost way more.

ETH_start 3y ago
Tesla has replaced two million gasoline cars with electric cars, and given its current growth rate, and Musk's long standing plan to release progressively more affordable cars, this number will likely be massively larger in a few years. Beyond Tesla's own sales, its success has sparked massive investment by other carmakers to push their electric vehicle manufacturing timetables forward. All told, Tesla has had a massive impact in pushing the world to replace gasoline vehicles with electric ones. SpaceX, for its part, is responsible for reducing the cost of launching material to orbit ten fold, with another 100 fold reduction possible with StarShip. The spike at the end of this graph is almost solely due to SpaceX: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/yearly-number-of-objects-launched-into-outer-space?time=earliest..2017&country=USA~RUS~CHN~GBR~JPN~FRA~IND~DEU~European+Space+Agency https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/yearly-number-of-objects-... Whatever is motivating this narrative you've adopted about Musk, it isn't the pursuit of truth.

ETH_start 3y ago

Tesla has replaced two million gasoline cars with electric cars, and given its current growth rate, and Musk's long standing plan to release progressively more affordable cars, this number will likely be massively larger in a few years. Beyond Tesla's own sales, its success has sparked massive investment by other carmakers to push their electric vehicle manufacturing timetables forward. All told, Tesla has had a massive impact in pushing the world to replace gasoline vehicles with electric ones. SpaceX, for its part, is responsible for reducing the cost of launching material to orbit ten fold, with another 100 fold reduction possible with StarShip. The spike at the end of this graph is almost solely due to SpaceX: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/yearly-number-of-objects-launched-into-outer-space?time=earliest..2017&country=USA~RUS~CHN~GBR~JPN~FRA~IND~DEU~European+Space+Agency https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/yearly-number-of-objects-... Whatever is motivating this narrative you've adopted about Musk, it isn't the pursuit of truth.