You always choose where to draw your lines.

It may be confusing to others but it's ultimately your choice.

A top government employee in the previous regime. Not some guy. You yourself can check and see that launch pricing for the government is cheaper from everyone apart from Boeing these days.

Turns out capping costs help. (See SLS) (See Europa Clipper)

Contracts aren't subsidies and you know that. It's straight up dishonesty to mix them up.

McDonald's and Burger King are government contractors

I said "government subsidized" and then later expanded out to subsidies, grants, and contracts. You know what I meant. There isn't dishonesty remotely anywhere.

And the point of conflict of interest still stands and is unargued while we still argue the meaning of "government subsidized".

Contracts aren't subsidies and that's just one facet of your dishonesty. Where are these grants?

The other part is the money you're talking about was almost all spent/awarded before this current government. There's your conflict of interest.

You aren't mistaken. You know you're spreading misinformation about this stuff

The elevator was there when it was originally announced.

There's no Kessler Syndrome where Starlink is.

You'd know this if you read Kessler's first paper. It's online.

i.e if every single Starlink satellite crashes into another you won't get Kessler Syndrome.

And the same it true for the planned Kuiper.

First of all, yes I know about the elevator hence why I mentioned it, you know, first of all it's not that safe to be going down an elevator from what is basically a multiple stories high building while in space (#1) and (#2) why would you add complexity/failure points on purpose if your mission was being multiplanetary?

The spacecraft wasn't designed with humans in mind first.

And second:

This is a paper by Kessler himself:

https://conference.sdo.esoc.esa.int/proceedings/sdc9/paper/3...

Elevator already approved by NASA. They think it's fine. Haven't changed their minds.

Figure 1 on the graph should have shamed you enough into not posting.

That isn't laundering

They did report FCF before xai and also invested at least $1B before they merged xai

Given that it's one Musk company giving a mountain of money to another, and the only numbers floating around regarding SpaceX seem like marketing fluff, I don't think any meaningful conclusions can be reached until we get some real numbers giving a full look at the finances.

We have real numbers for both the launch and Internet business.

We know how much was spent by Xai too.

You can wait for Godot if you wish.

It's less than the yearly cost of ground stations (just under 1 million/year per installation)

5 million over 5 years capex+opex. Mostly opex

It's also a troll post

Don't see how this works out financially.

You can still (with some difficulty) take the old style exam

They are likely behind (foreign) CDN's.

Not that there's no BYOIP and not that it's impossible to do with shared IP's