It’s the same reason he “pivoted” away from hyperloop, or passenger-liner-starship, or tesla semi, or the boring company. Because it was never about that. Those were all lies to create hype for other projects or to destroy competition.
People with working brains have ALWAYS said that SpaceX wasn’t going to Mars and Musk’s Mars idea are stupid, and Elon’s fanboys have always said it was totally going to happen yo. And now, finally, Musk had to admit it was never going to happen, it’s being heralded as a sensible choice and a smart move.
Bitch, you shouldn’t get credit for dropping your own dumb idea that everyone said was dumb.
He’s picked up a new dumb idea with Ai in space. It makes me think spaceflight isn’t as profitable as we’ve been lead to believe if you have to keep moving goalposts and coming up with bullshit grift.
SpaceX’ largest client is Starlink, but they have a pretty hard cap on the replacement rate of the satellites, meaning that in a year or two, every launch will go to replacing lost sats. Add the problem that adding more satellites doesn’t increase their service all that much, thanks to the annoying fact that humans tend not to live in the ocean.
That means a hard limit on growth, which is absolutely terrible for a tech company in this market.
The last point in the article is the real key:
using it as a base from-which to smash all of Earth that is contradicting the right-wingers who’ve got that base…
Bingo.
