• waitmarks@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    It’s honestly not the rocket business that is the problem. Yeah, it’s risky, but it’s actually ambitious and starlink makes money. So, they have a money making product that could actually fund development of a real reusable rocket.

    The actual problem is the AI money pit they slapped on to the side. The amount of money XAI spends is so insane it’s like 80% of the whole capex. Which most people dont realize because it’s still called spacex, but in reality the whole space business has become the side project for an AI company burning money at an unprecedented rate.

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      5 hours ago

      Yeah and that is so unfortunate. They had so much potential to change the industry again, as a space company.

      Using that space company to fund ai was a bad idea