Harry_the_space_man
Harry_the_space_man t1_ixyh5bj wrote
Reply to comment by bitbot in Tesla recalls more than 15,000 Australian electric vehicles over faulty tail lights by ninjascotsman
She claimed that GM is making the most EVs in North America if you exclude all pandemic related issues. That Q GM sold 42 EVs and tesla sold 250,000
Harry_the_space_man t1_ivlqgpk wrote
Reply to comment by simcoder in Do you think it's possible for Elon to land people on Mars by 2029? I am skeptical of his claims. by [deleted]
Because it’s the stated plan. Starlink has roughly 900,000 paying subscribers (it was 100,000 at the beginning of the year). The average Starlink cost is 110 for residential, and 135 for movable starlink. With 100,000 users on mobile Starlink, that’s 162,000,000 a year in revenue, plus the 1,056,000,000 per year from residential, and they have 1,218,000,000 in revenue per year. Right now they are constantly launching satellites and combined with other Starlink related expenses they are spending roughly 1.5 billion per year on Starlink. So they are making a roughly 300 million loss on Starlink each year. But with there planned 13,000 sats all working at once with laser links, they could service tens of millions of people. According to a Microsoft poll over 70 million people in America alone would spend upwards of 100 dollars for good internet, and that’s just America. Even if you be pessimistic and say they can only manage 10 million subscribers, that’s a yearly revenue of 13,350,000,000. They can accomplish this by launching Starlink V2s on starship with 5X the bandwidth of normal Starlink sats for double the cost. And because of the laser links they can distribute the usage.
Harry_the_space_man t1_ivlkl91 wrote
Reply to comment by GimmyJrimble in Do you think it's possible for Elon to land people on Mars by 2029? I am skeptical of his claims. by [deleted]
How will mars make investors happy? The whole point in Starlink is to fund mars.
Harry_the_space_man t1_ivlkfrk wrote
Reply to comment by GinaAndJack in Do you think it's possible for Elon to land people on Mars by 2029? I am skeptical of his claims. by [deleted]
What are you talking about
Harry_the_space_man t1_ivljyf9 wrote
Reply to comment by BigPhotojournalist76 in Do you think it's possible for Elon to land people on Mars by 2029? I am skeptical of his claims. by [deleted]
This idea that we need to test on the moon to prepare for mars is complete bullshit. And spaceX are aiming to fully find mars through Starlink, not investors. And NASA say the would want a person on mars by the 2040s, but they have been extremely vague about any plans.
There are valleys on Mars that can sustain a high radiation tolerance, which the moon does not have. Mars is also a lot warmer, with temperatures between 20 Celsius and minus 30 Celsius.
Harry_the_space_man t1_j9szued wrote
Reply to comment by cagandrax in What will be the environmental impact of de-orbiting 42,000 Starlink satellites every five years? (Explanation in post) by OvidPerl
They are looking for 100 launches this year, so the 10 launches a month number could be feasible