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Interesting... The guy is landing rockets on Earth. He said, it planned it did it.

So on one hand - do you listen to a bunch of wallstreet know it all short sellers pumping out negative news and counting parking lots and shipping containers.

Or do you listen to the Elon case - that it actually may be crazy to buy a car that that is not a Tesla...

One thing is certain, A car like a boat has been a money loosing investment until today, and consumers have been marketed to oblivion and convinced that, that is O.K.

IF THAT CHANGES, even slightly, well, then... Its GG (good game). because that changes everything, and even the die hard truck lovers will be tempted to make a few bucks on the side.

Landing a rocket on earth is technically a lot easier that making a self-driving car. The former is in a complex but reasonably well understood area of physics plus some advance manufacturing. The latter is cutting edge AI sitting in the middle of a legislative/political/ethical quagmire.

Ashlee Vance's biography actually explains this really well, how one paper SpaceX looks far more difficult to pull off than Tesla but how in reality it's the opposite.

Even genius can be spread too thin.

Yes! It's all those reptiloid shortsellers from Nibiru. Totally not Elon killing people with his scummy marketing and scuzzy software. Not at all!

Have you ever considered that no one bothered landing rockets because it was pointless and uneconomic, not impossible?

And I love the disdain for wall street, completely ignoring that Elon is in bed with the bankers.

Well, now SpaceX has a way to launch 12K sats for global Internet. No one else is even remotely ready to do that.

Talk about your moats.

And no money to do it. Did you see the results of their last attempted funding raise?

Once again acting like something likely far fetched is right around the corner, because Elon said so. When the money for nothing dries up, we will see what these businesses look like.

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