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Bluetus

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5. "Datacenters in space is simply ridiculous"
Thu Jun 25, 2026, 12:00 AM
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Just as ridiculous as colonizing Mars. As Neil deGrasse Tyson says, we would have to "terraform" Mars to live there. It would be a whole lot easier to terraform Earth, or better yet, stop killing our only home.

As far as the stock goes. whatever SpaceX might have ben worth 6 months ago, it is much less now because of the merger with xAI, which loses a billion dollars a month and has no real busines case. At least with the the original SpaceX, there were two good business cases (rockets for the government and sattelite Internet.)

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Not sure there is one lapfog_1 Wednesday #1
SpaceX does have a profitable core in the launch business paulkienitz Wednesday #4
They only thing they have that makes money edhopper Thursday #7
as I just said, paulkienitz Thursday #12
"Datacenters in space is simply ridiculous" Bluetus Thursday #5
Datacenters in orbit are a lot MORE ridiculous that colonizing Mars. paulkienitz Thursday #6
Of one thing you can be certain Bluetus Thursday #10
I disagree that it's pointless. paulkienitz Thursday #13
Why? Bluetus Thursday #15
Me too -- I agree with you. paulkienitz Thursday #17
There are legitimate scientific cases for the moon. Bluetus Yesterday #19
Realistically less than half of what it is right now fujiyamasan Wednesday #2
About tree fiddy. flvegan Wednesday #3
A buck three-eighty per share. MineralMan Thursday #8
Two penny nails, a bottle cap, an aggie and a crow feather.... haele Thursday #16
It is a pathological stock Johonny Thursday #9
About $40. Happy Hoosier Thursday #11
Yup, that's also the analysis I've seen LR3 Thursday #14
about $50 dollars Matthew28 Thursday #18
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