A forecast of the fair market value of SpaceX's businesses

Re:A forecast of the fair market value of SpaceX's businesses by stouset on Thursday April 02, 2026 @02:31PM (#47618332)

I would wager minerals mining and tourism are probably the only meaningful revenue sources in our lifetimes.

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Re:A forecast of the fair market value of SpaceX's businesses by ant6n on Thursday April 02, 2026 @03:11PM (#47618851)

Going to orbit is actually useful already, cf starlink

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Re:A forecast of the fair market value of SpaceX's businesses by stouset on Thursday April 02, 2026 @03:57PM (#47619407)

Yeah, I meant in addition to what we’re already doing.

I do think that will reach diminishing returns at some point. Kessler syndrome is a real thing for long-term higher orbits.

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Re:A forecast of the fair market value of SpaceX's businesses by dh2022 on Thursday April 02, 2026 @07:01PM (#47621311)

Tourism to Mars and back (this is the easiest interplanetary travel) means years confined in a space rocket just to circle around Mars and get back (it is not possible to land on Mars and get back). Not that appealing…

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Re:A forecast of the fair market value of SpaceX's businesses by stouset on Thursday April 02, 2026 @08:43PM (#47622067)

I know the GP mentioned making humans interplanetary, but I mostly just interpreted this as “more spacefaring”. By tourism I really just meant something along the lines of orbiting hotels.

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Re:A forecast of the fair market value of SpaceX's businesses by guzfip on Thursday April 02, 2026 @08:10PM (#47621871)

Don’t worry man, the LLM’s will invent FTL travel before 2030. Trust me.

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