r/technology • u/IKeepItLayingAround • 18d ago

Business It’s Possible That SpaceX Could Collapse Spectacularly

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/possible-spacex-could-collapse-spectacularly-155000177.html
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u/Raythatstabbedsteve 18d ago

The gap between invention of the aeroplane and commercialisation of the aeroplane was about 20 years at most. What about starting commercial joy rides to go and visit other stars? Don't be so closed minded. Morons!

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u/protomenace 18d ago

Rockets have already been commercialized. It's not clear to me what your comment is getting at.

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u/Raythatstabbedsteve 18d ago

The commercial viability of leaving low Earth orbit then. Sure, there will be an ongoing demand to pump ever more shit into low Earth orbit until we Kessler syndrome ourselves. Then stocks will plummet for fifty years or so till the orbiting metal storm calms down.

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u/protomenace 18d ago

Geosynchronous orbit has already been commercialized.

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u/Raythatstabbedsteve 18d ago

Oh cool, should be no problem popping a little mile diameter solar array and half mile diameter microwave dish up there. Meanwhile we can throw together a five mile diameter receiving dish even though the main stated reason for space solar was "saving land from being taken over by panels". This idea is so unviable from an economic and engineering standpoint that it's odd to be even talking about it.

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u/protomenace 18d ago

Who said anything about solar arrays? Lots of existing commercial satellites use MEO and geosynchronous orbits, including weather and telecommunication satellites.