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Are you saying the best statement you can use to describe SpaceX is "incredible marketing"?

by hx8 3y ago

JumpinJack_Cash 3y ago
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- photonbeam 3y ago
  Launching spy satellites has utility
- mjamesaustin 3y ago
  They made $1.4 billion in revenue on their Starlink internet service last year. Satellite internet was already a successful product before SpaceX entered the market, and they're providing much faster service at a lower price. If you look at the space industry as a whole, over 60% of all rockets launched last year were by SpaceX, and their cost per kg launched is a fraction of their competitors. It's strange to refer to this as "buzz" when they're objectively providing successful services that many people and organizations are paying for.
  - JumpinJack_Cash 3y ago
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    - yreg 3y ago
      > I know one thing though, you aren't using Starlink. And your brother and sister and cousin and brother in law aren't using it either. You "know" nothing.
- deleted 3y ago
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- O5vYtytb 3y ago
  What is their utility? They launched more mass to space than everyone else in the world combined (states and private). Did you mean to question the utility of starlink? Because the utility of the company on the whole is quite obviously apparent.
  - JumpinJack_Cash 3y ago
    Satellites are for comms and military. Consumers don't ever benefit from militaries so the only other option to extract quality of life from space is comms. But given that 90% of the population lives in urban areas comms are much more efficiently done using 5g cell towers and the good old cable fiber. The way I see it, SpaceX is like the SR71 or the Saturn Rocket, monodimensional individuals will always fall in love with such toys and will try to reason their way backwards starting from their love for the toys to find and convince enough fools to finance them playing with such toys and not only that also singing their praise, it seems like it's exactly what is happening.
    - kortilla 3y ago
      > But given that 90% of the population lives in urban areas comms are much more efficiently done using 5g cell towers and the good old cable fiber. Don’t be daft, 10% of the population doesn’t by your own numbers. People in rural areas all over (Alaskan native schools, schools on the Amazon River, etc) are getting online for the first time because of starlink. Your post comes across as “I don’t care about projects to eliminate hunger worldwide because most people have access to food”.

Are you saying the best statement you can use to describe SpaceX is "incredible marketing"?

by hx8 3y ago

Are you saying the best statement you can use to describe SpaceX is "incredible marketing"?

JumpinJack_Cash 3y ago

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photonbeam 3y ago
Launching spy satellites has utility
mjamesaustin 3y ago
They made $1.4 billion in revenue on their Starlink internet service last year. Satellite internet was already a successful product before SpaceX entered the market, and they're providing much faster service at a lower price. If you look at the space industry as a whole, over 60% of all rockets launched last year were by SpaceX, and their cost per kg launched is a fraction of their competitors. It's strange to refer to this as "buzz" when they're objectively providing successful services that many people and organizations are paying for.
- JumpinJack_Cash 3y ago
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  - yreg 3y ago
    > I know one thing though, you aren't using Starlink. And your brother and sister and cousin and brother in law aren't using it either. You "know" nothing.
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O5vYtytb 3y ago
What is their utility? They launched more mass to space than everyone else in the world combined (states and private). Did you mean to question the utility of starlink? Because the utility of the company on the whole is quite obviously apparent.
- JumpinJack_Cash 3y ago
  Satellites are for comms and military. Consumers don't ever benefit from militaries so the only other option to extract quality of life from space is comms. But given that 90% of the population lives in urban areas comms are much more efficiently done using 5g cell towers and the good old cable fiber. The way I see it, SpaceX is like the SR71 or the Saturn Rocket, monodimensional individuals will always fall in love with such toys and will try to reason their way backwards starting from their love for the toys to find and convince enough fools to finance them playing with such toys and not only that also singing their praise, it seems like it's exactly what is happening.
  - kortilla 3y ago
    > But given that 90% of the population lives in urban areas comms are much more efficiently done using 5g cell towers and the good old cable fiber. Don’t be daft, 10% of the population doesn’t by your own numbers. People in rural areas all over (Alaskan native schools, schools on the Amazon River, etc) are getting online for the first time because of starlink. Your post comes across as “I don’t care about projects to eliminate hunger worldwide because most people have access to food”.