Ericpopcorn @ericpopcorn

My name is Eric I like popcorn Joined November 2021

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Ericpopcorn @ericpopcorn

18 hours ago

@Onemarsyboi If this is market manipulation Musk would be in jail for life.

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The only difference between them is he put up 100 million in 2002 or 190 million in today's dollars. In other terms it was not hard work or having the right ideas but starting with millions of dollars that made him as rich as he is.

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Ericpopcorn @ericpopcorn

2 days ago

Bringing up Shotwell makes Musk's worth look a lot worse. Musk is ~50/50 Tesla SpaceX so 500 Billion from SpaceX. So despite being there for the same amount of time and likely putting more work as her time was not spilt she is worth 1/250 of Musk's share.

ApoStructura @ApoStructura

2 days ago

If she wasn’t working for Elon Gwynne Shotwell would be hailed as an incredible success story and the most powerful woman in aerospace. Instead it’s radio silence from the media

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Ericpopcorn @ericpopcorn

2 days ago

@quikenlaws @mikusingularity Funny enough this happened with Starlink V1. If they were still launching 60 per launch falcon launch rate would be flat at ~90-100 with ~50 starlink and ~45 other launches.

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Ericpopcorn @ericpopcorn

2 days ago

@SpaceKoala And the reason it had to be created was because there was not enough demand for 2 US private rocket launchers at the time. While the DoD wanted 2 different rockets incase one failed.

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Ericpopcorn @ericpopcorn

3 days ago

Just to let you know the incompetence was during the Bush admin’s constellation program and the Obama admin pushed for more commercialization and thus SpaceX. Not really relevant as the value of SpaceX and Musk is 85% AI speculation which has nothing to do with NASA or the left.

Boring_Business @BoringBiz_

3 days ago

The irony of left wing politicians bashing Elon for becoming a trillionaire is that SpaceX was literally started due to their own incompetence By the early 2000s, NASA had effectively become a funding shell that was no longer doing what it had promised. Space missions were

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Ericpopcorn @ericpopcorn

3 days ago

This is what SpaceX should have done but with Dragon, a super Draco based assent stage and a raptor decent stage. Would be wild if this could not have been launched on a single expendable starship. Then make the decent stage bigger and refueling for an evolved reusable lander.

Delta9250 @deltaIV9250

3 days ago

Quite fond of LockMart’s 2019 accelerated lunar lander proposal (for 2024) having its ascent stage be an Orion pressure vessel sitting on top a Orion ESM. Such a simple and straightforward solution.

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Ericpopcorn @ericpopcorn

5 days ago

The argument against SpaceX’s AI space data centers that should be brought up more is that they are fully expendable. After 5 years they are fully disposed of. The company who spent years saying how dumb expendable rockets are is saying how great expendable data centers are.

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Ericpopcorn @ericpopcorn

6 days ago

It feels as if SpaceX believes (or worse always has) that HLS is a waste of Starship’s time as Starlink & now AI is worth a lot more and don’t want to suffer the bad PR and possible lawsuits of pulling out. While pushing for any other option to be killed so no one else wins.

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Ericpopcorn @ericpopcorn

6 days ago

I am going to be blunt. Starship HLS is in vaporware watch territory. No new images or even renders and their next mission is the most minimum to claim progress that can be done.

David Willis @ThePrimalDino

6 days ago

Genuinely what is the point of having starship on Artemis III? If it’s just a regular v3 with a docking adapter, and NOT the actual Human landing system, what is actually going to be learned here, ESPECIALLY if the astronauts aren’t going inside it to work with the controls?

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Ericpopcorn @ericpopcorn

a week ago

@Samuelai_Qauntu @ApoStructura If he buys SpaceX stock he gets no control over the company because of Musk’s type B stock, and no direct returns because of no dividends. He would only make money if the stock value goes up which is unlikely because the stock value already assumes SpaceX will achieve this.

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Ericpopcorn @ericpopcorn

a week ago

@PebMet1 @SpaceX Does also make me wonder about starlink competitors in that would a smaller constellation that uses a lot fewer satellites and launches in exchange for worse coverage be able to take a massive chunk of users.

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Ericpopcorn @ericpopcorn

a week ago

@PebMet1 @SpaceX You could argue it is a loss leader for Starlink. The problem is the implications for the broader space (especially human space) demand. Funny enough it does prove the old thought that reusable rockets are not worth it because of lack of demand again pre-starlink.

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Ericpopcorn @ericpopcorn

a week ago

@MikeIsaac My other problem people tend to ignore is that these are one use so even if nothing breaks everything (the chips, solar panels, telecommunications, ect) are worth 0 after 5 years even if some parts could outlast that, and ignoring that the chips may become obsolete before then.

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Ericpopcorn @ericpopcorn

a week ago

@Robotbeat So 1 billion a month is nothing for a 4.5 trillion dollar company but massive for a 2 trillion dollar company.

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Ericpopcorn @ericpopcorn

a week ago

@Anton81191831 But why would they do that and when? Starlink needs 50 flights a year for their 15k in orbit. Adding in 15 a year for HLS puts them at 65 a year before touching the 1 million AI data center plan which is 3.3k a year. Starship is booked until optimistically 2030 before AI.

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Ericpopcorn @ericpopcorn

2 weeks ago

@100MBTC Even if Starship achieves everything they want it to (Unlikely considering Falcon 9 turnaround time was supposed to be 24 hours and is averaging 30 days) by TAM ~80% of the valuation is “Enterprise Applications” of AI. 80% of the valuation is Grok for professional businesses.

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Ericpopcorn @ericpopcorn

2 weeks ago

@_Testflight_ Delta II payload was 6.1 tons to LEO and flew 155 times between 1989 and 2011 for historic comparison.

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Ericpopcorn @ericpopcorn

2 weeks ago

@_Testflight_ In 2025 of the 32 non-starlink, non-dragon Falcon 9 flights 14 were rtls, 16 were droneship, and 2 were expended. The 14 rtls missions are the target. In 2024 there were 17 rtls, 13 droneship and 4 expended/FH. Historically most payloads are not mega constellations or that big.