SpaceX IPO, Iran War Fallout, Quantum Bitcoin Hack, The Space Opportunity
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SpaceX and Tesla are likely to merge into a single entity - a public SpaceX provides a validated mark-to-market valuation that allows Elon Musk to consolidate his companies while minimizing legal risks from shareholder lawsuits.
“The most important positive thing that will happen from the IPO is a validated external mark-to-market valuation of SpaceX... dollars to donuts, these things are going to merge.”
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The moon is positioned to become the next major industrial frontier - low gravity and a lack of atmosphere make it cheaper to manufacture and 'ship' materials back to Earth via magnetic mass drivers than any current terrestrial transport method.
“It will cost less to move goods, manufactured goods, processed or precious metals from the moon to a specific point on earth. It will cost less to do that than to ship it using any other terrestrial conventional method.”
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SpaceX is building a space-based backup for the global internet - by integrating Starlink with orbital data centers, the company is creating a network that bypasses the physical and capacity limitations of Earth's fiber-optic infrastructure.
“SpaceX has also created, and this is going to be a big part of the valuation analysis that many are doing, they've created a backup to the Internet.”