I mean, SpaceX is one of the only really successful Musk companies. Mostly because the company insiders are careful to keep the idiot away from any decision that matters.

If you have a "solution" with "if we can solve the other parts of the problem", you do not have a solution.

Bro literally used AI in the same phrase like wth 😭😭

Nuclear is cool, but I like the independence solar panels bring to individuals :)

Ok upon rereading, im still utterly baffled by the AI part, but yes, mass producing satellites on the moon and shooting them into Earth orbit or a close sun orbit via a mass driver is pretty likely in the future. We WILL be making satellites that will form the basis of a dyson swarm, and its very unlikely we will make them on Earth as almost anywhere else in the solar system is going to be easier. The moon is an excellent starting point, but in the long term the moon is primarily just going to be a refueling station for deeper space trips. Most of our soace manufacturing and shipping is going to be primarily handled in the asteroid belt, and then in the much further future there will be more people living in the Keiper belt than has ever existed on Earth.

Edit: in case its not obvious, my passion is futurology, this is literally the shit i spend all day reading and researching about every single day. My passion used to be AI but since the creation of LLMs most of the itneresting research has been sidelined.

Nuclear has very high up front costs. There are estimates that with reasonable transmission losses, putting solar satalites into orbit with Falcon 9 would already be cost competitive with nuclear. Starship should bring this down even more, perhaps even an order of magnitude. At which point there would be zero use case for new nuclear fission plants.

Now, this is comparing a hypothetical satellite system with actually built nuclear projects. That said, nuclear fission power is an economic dead end. Advocates have been so caught up in talking about the safety aspects (mostly talking points built in the 90s against Greenpeace and never changed) that they haven't addressed the actual reason nobody wants to build them: they suck copious amounts of money in the build out and blow their construction schedule.

Loll

It's astroturing at its finest. What happens when the corporation that runs the station on the moon no longer wants to send that energy down to Earth? Furthermore, what happens when the colony on the moon that operates the station and/or facility rebels and becomes a new nation?

I've had a hunch for some time that Musk 'turned evil,' would be one of the first people to capitalize on his popularity, wealth, and opportunity to form his own mega corp nation on Mars. This seems like a great opportunity to put that in motion. Plus, if he and other billionaires decided to fund this tech and patent it, they would for sure use it against us in any way they could. Gatekeeping humanities progress is at stake if any of this comes true.

🫡🫡 gl chief

Bro it's called a meme.

The dude in the background is a well known viral celebrity who makes joke videos that mocks those people who make "quick hack" videos with convoluted solutions to mundane problems that already have mundane solutions.

Superimposing Musky's tweet over him doing his bit is the whole joke.

No dawg 😭😭, it’s Elongated Muskrat’s tweet and behind him is a very well known TikTok guy 😭

So what is a kWh then?

Bro is cooked

As much as I'd like to shit on him, I believe he talks about building energy generation capacity (aka GW or TW) in a certain time period (i.e. one year). Like building 1000 100MW power stations every year, but in space.

Can't tell if it makes any sense economically though, getting anything in scale to space is still kinda very expensive.

And if you try to make whatever you need to get to space light, compact and efficient, it usually quickly becomes very expensive itself.

So "solve other parts of equation" probably means "give me money".

Later edit: if you ever played Factorio, this is equivalent of amount of solar panels crafted and delivered to space platform per hour.

Watt is an Energy unit, period, as electrical unit, as in this case, it's W=VA(δ), only as work/kinetic unit it's W = J/s = Nm/s = kgm²*s^-^³

It’s cooked 😭

Fuck Oilcels!

Great point. We should link up to discuss the productivity process and determine the best synergy for the moment.

😭😭 true

Uh, what? Railguns are a tech as old as time, i highly doubt the US was the first to create one. I could throw a railgun together in about 30 minutes with the stuff i have laying around the house. They are INCREDIBLY simple, literally 1 moving part and no circutry whatsoever. Just hook your positive to one rail, negative to the other. Right hand rule tells you which direction your projectile will fire.