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Five People Founded Tesla, But Only Elon Musk Became Extremely Rich (open.substack.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Starlink is trash too, come at me Elon

[–] themelm 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Starlink is shitty and yet where I'm at its still easily the cheapest, fastest, and most reliable option. Infuriating really.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, if he spent the money on laying fibre instead of using satilites that need to be replaced every at most 18 months and as little as 2 months, everyone would have been better off.

[–] themelm 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah and if my province hadn't sold of their public telephone company to private investors I'd be even more better off so I'm more pissed about that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Gotta love when rich people convince our politicians that they can do the job better than the Govt and then we loose everything. Like when Brian M sold off CN Rail now Bill Gates is making billions from it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but he only has the one digger, so the fiber would all end up in hyperloop-sized tunnels, it'd be like the Underminer from the Incredibles.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Prob would still be cheaper and more environmentally friendlier

[–] velxundussa 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I see that being said quite often.

Is there any actual proof of this or is it speculation?

In low density population areas, it seems to me that laying fiber would be cost prohibitive, but I'd like to be proven wrong.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Each satellite is worth 250k @ 5,500 units currently (and its still garbage unless its your only option). And this is just the cost of satilites

Worse case scenario for laying fibre is $80,000 for 1 mile

You do the shit maths and that is 17,187.5 miles (not km) of fibre for what is currently in LEO and excluding the price of launching these POS into the nights sky. So for best case senario every 18 months that is how much fibre lines Elon could be laying.

From Presque Isles, Maine to Sandiego, California is 3,305 miles