• boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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    3 days ago

    So 100 GW of production capacity a year? That’s a number for sure, but why des it have to be in space? And somehow I doubt this would be in addition to the current 600 GW being installed per year around the world.

    I’m not even going to get into the Lunar ketamine-powered AI satellites.

  • Scubus@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    Is that a fake tweet? If not, what is he even talking about here? Starship, a cargo rocket, is going to be delivering… electricity… to orbit? And we have have to ship that electricity off the moon with a rail gun/mass driver?

    Exactly how does elon think electricity works? Is he planning on shipping the electrons directly, or in a convenient chemical storage tank? And if the latter, does that mean hes just loading starship with extremely heavy low energy density batteries? And wtf does AI have to do with any of this?

    The solution is simple. Nuclear. If you want to go sci-fi or are willing to wait about a hundred years, well start getting solar powered satellites that beam their energy through microwaves back down to Earth, or more likely to an orbiter that massively tones it down then sends it to mulitple power farms on the ground since you dint want a cosmic microwave death ray pointing directly at Earth.

  • Fleur_@aussie.zone
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    5 days ago

    If the economic success of your product involves mining the moon, you might be in a bubble

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    Is this a guy who stole someone’s tweet, put a pic of themself in the background and the posted it without comment? If so, can we call it low-effort coattails?

    • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net
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      4 days ago

      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.