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Is the Space X S1 a Joke?

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After you get past the first 14 pages of Space X S1 filing of rocket pictures, yes rocket pictures, you get to this direct quote:

We do not want humans to have the same fate as dinosaurs. We want to give them a reason to look ahead with excitement, with the prospect that we are entering an age of abundance with an endlessly prosperous and exciting future.

For decades, a reality where humanity travels between the planets and the stars has felt tantalizingly close but still locked in the pages and screens of science fiction. We are capable of better understanding the universe, exploring the universe, and ultimately making life multiplanetary across the universe. We are becoming a civilization with the ability to reach beyond Earth’s cradle and begin to inhabit other worlds. While we remain dedicated to this fundamental mission, our progress in accessing space continues to yield opportunities that enrich life on Earth. For example, by dramatically reducing the cost of access to space, we have been able to expand our mission to address some of the Earth’s most pressing challenges, including bridging the digital divide by aiming to connect over three billion unconnected people to the internet and humanity’s collective knowledge.

The rapid emergence of the AI era intensifies the urgency of our mission, as AI has the potential to accelerate not only space exploration, but also transformative societal advancements on Earth. However, AI’s ability to revolutionize human potential is directly dependent on meeting exponentially increasing resource demands. On Earth, the massive expansion of data center capacity to support growing compute demand is significantly outpacing electricity generation, which was effectively flat in the United States for approximately 15 years, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 0.1% from 2008 to 2023. Despite the recent increase in electricity demand from AI data centers, electricity generation in the United States has grown at an annual rate of less than 3% between 2023 and 2025, while electricity generation in China has grown at approximately twice that rate in the same time period. This supply and demand imbalance is already imposing unsustainable strains on terrestrial power grids, supply chains, and the environment. The Sun contains approximately 99.8% of the solar system’s energy and, as a result, we believe it is the only truly scalable solution to terrestrial energy constraints in the age of AI. Harnessing this energy in space is considerably more efficient than on land. Space-based solar arrays can generate more than five times the energy per unit area of terrestrial solar due to continuous illumination, lack of atmospheric interference, and optimal orientation. SpaceX is well-positioned to capture this space-based solar energy through our ability to rapidly access Sun-synchronous orbit through our satellite manufacturing scale and launch capability. As a result, we are expanding our footprint and harnessing the vast resources of space that are essential to sustaining technological development. Our goal is to ensure that AI becomes a force for human flourishing and a benefit to civilization, rather than a catalyst for terrestrial resource depletion and instability.

WTF? Is this a joke? This is a company thats is burning through cash at a monstrous rate. Scott Galloway on the Pivot podcast sums it up:

The bottom line, you’re being asked to pay 1.75 trillion for a great satellite internet company, a rocket company that loses money, an AI product losing 6 billion a year and falling further behind its competitors. It has 29 billion in debt and a CEO who, and this is my favorite part of the filing, purchased a $131 million dollars of his own recalled cyber trucks with company cash.

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So in summary, Starlink is the golden goose, an amazing company, everything else is Elon’s hobbies. And at this evaluation you are paying full price for all of them. So Snow White is f**king hot, but if you marry her you are taking on these non value add weirdos.

This is just Elon trying to bail out Tesla, AI X and Space X. As always the idiots on Wall Street will fall for it hook, line and sinker.

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