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Re:Stargaze: SpaceX's Space Situational Awareness System by sfblah on Friday January 30, 2026 @02:10AM (#46821391)
I was just thinking about that the other day while relaxing in my Hyperloop pod from Los Angeles to San Francisco. I was reminiscing about how I'd avoided all the traffic in LA by using the Boring Company's tunnels in my second-generation Tesla Roadster. I'd been in LA for a conference about the hugely successful Starship space launch system, which has revolutionized cost to orbit with fully reusable second stages. When I got to San Francisco, I hopped in a Tesla fully self-driving robotaxi, and when I got home, my Optimus robot served me tea after I instructed it to do so using my Neuralink probe. I then sent a video voicemail to my parents, who live in a city of 1 million people on Mars, which has recently been terraformed. I flipped on CNN and was gratified to see that, for the first time in 25 years, the US government was operating at a surplus, thanks to the $2T of annual savings delivered by DOGE.
Re:Stargaze: SpaceX's Space Situational Awareness System by sidcool on Friday January 30, 2026 @11:08AM (#46826094)
Starship is iterating fast and flying in another 5 weeks. Boring company is executing slowly but steadily, the Vegas tunnel is progressing. Unsupervised robotaxis has started in Austin. Optimus started a few years ago only, it is disingenuous to expect it to be available immediately. Neuralink has 18 patients now. Mars is happening, Elon never promised it will be possible this decade.

Your comment makes it seem that Elon's companies have done nothing. I know you are being disingenuous, but I am trying my luck to respond.

Re:Stargaze: SpaceX's Space Situational Awareness System by sfblah on Friday January 30, 2026 @12:03PM (#46826901)
We can both be correct. I'm not saying he's done nothing. I'm saying he lies, A LOT.
Re:Stargaze: SpaceX's Space Situational Awareness System by macintux on Friday January 30, 2026 @11:18AM (#46826226)
> “Starship is going to Mars at the end of 2026.”

https://www.futura-sciences.com/en/elon-musk-promises-a-trip...

> New video evidence shows that Tesla’s supposedly “unsupervised” Robotaxis in Austin are being closely followed by black Tesla trailing cars with safety monitors inside. Tesla didn’t remove the safety monitors – it just moved them to a different vehicle.

https://electrek.co/2026/01/22/tesla-starts-robotaxi-rides-w...

Re:Stargaze: SpaceX's Space Situational Awareness System by sidcool on Friday January 30, 2026 @12:11PM (#46826993)
Lol. So a fully self driving car with a following car is not impressive? Elon over promised, no doubt. But don't tell me their tech is not amazing. Pure vision general purpose autonomy. It's going to be a game changer. It could be late but inevitable.

Remember when it was supervised FSD? They have come a long way.

Re:Stargaze: SpaceX's Space Situational Awareness System by sfblah on Friday January 30, 2026 @07:07PM (#46831747)
Consider this: What tech might we have if the entire world economy weren't infested with termites like Musk who lie continuously to pull in investment that could have gone elsewhere?
Re:Stargaze: SpaceX's Space Situational Awareness System by sidcool on Friday January 30, 2026 @10:22PM (#46833069)
What are you talking about? Please read Tesla stats.
Re:Stargaze: SpaceX's Space Situational Awareness System by sfblah on Saturday January 31, 2026 @04:25PM (#46841023)
Tesla's high-priced sports cars are the wrong product. The right product is a low-cost car like the BYD cars that aren't legally allowed to be sold in the US. The US has probably already lost the EV war, and Tesla is principally responsible. Everything Musk touches turns to garbage.
Re:Stargaze: SpaceX's Space Situational Awareness System by inemesitaffia on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @06:10PM (#46878745)
I'm sure the Midas touch of Ford and GM will fix it.
Re:Stargaze: SpaceX's Space Situational Awareness System by inemesitaffia on Friday January 30, 2026 @03:40PM (#46829586)
Microsoft Bob, Google Inbox and Plus
Re:Stargaze: SpaceX's Space Situational Awareness System by sfblah on Friday January 30, 2026 @07:09PM (#46831763)
Good-faith products that launched, were bad ideas, and failed. Musk is absolutely unique in world history for the sheer number of fake products he's used to garner investment (mostly from the government if we're being honest) and then line his own pockets. If Trump is Darth Vader, Musk is The Emperor.
Re:Stargaze: SpaceX's Space Situational Awareness System by inemesitaffia on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @06:08PM (#46878721)
This is cope sorry.

No honesty in your mostly.

Re:Stargaze: SpaceX's Space Situational Awareness System by sidcool on Thursday February 05, 2026 @12:15PM (#46901947)
Lol. The million Teslas and Starlink satellites are fake? At least be subtle to lend some credence to your statement.