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Carmi Levy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
4582 total appearances

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The Last Show with David Cooper
Space Toilet Trouble; Security Apocalypse 'Q-Day' Approaches

And so essentially what it means is it would give SpaceX the capital that it needs to fuel the next chapter in its growth.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Space Toilet Trouble; Security Apocalypse 'Q-Day' Approaches

So they've got to figure out Starship because basically they've been test launching it for years and they haven't really gotten that much closer to

The Last Show with David Cooper
Space Toilet Trouble; Security Apocalypse 'Q-Day' Approaches

making it an operational safe for human vehicle.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Space Toilet Trouble; Security Apocalypse 'Q-Day' Approaches

So they need a lot of money to get to that point.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Space Toilet Trouble; Security Apocalypse 'Q-Day' Approaches

They need a lot of money to build a base on the moon because Elon Musk has said he wants to do that as well.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Space Toilet Trouble; Security Apocalypse 'Q-Day' Approaches

He wants to go to Mars, obviously.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Space Toilet Trouble; Security Apocalypse 'Q-Day' Approaches

That's also going to take huge amounts of money.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Space Toilet Trouble; Security Apocalypse 'Q-Day' Approaches

Hundreds and hundreds of Starship flights.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Space Toilet Trouble; Security Apocalypse 'Q-Day' Approaches

Those don't come cheap.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Space Toilet Trouble; Security Apocalypse 'Q-Day' Approaches

And then he also wants to put a million satellites into orbit for an AI data center.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Space Toilet Trouble; Security Apocalypse 'Q-Day' Approaches

Instead of building data centers on the Earth, he'll put a million of them into orbit.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Space Toilet Trouble; Security Apocalypse 'Q-Day' Approaches

I don't even want to ask how much that'll cost, but you don't do that with kind of the current level of finances.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Space Toilet Trouble; Security Apocalypse 'Q-Day' Approaches

You've got to go public and you've got to bring in huge amounts of capital.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Space Toilet Trouble; Security Apocalypse 'Q-Day' Approaches

to sort of fuel that.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Space Toilet Trouble; Security Apocalypse 'Q-Day' Approaches

That's what this is all about.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Space Toilet Trouble; Security Apocalypse 'Q-Day' Approaches

The scary thing, though, is SpaceX is already putting up something like 80% of all the mass to low Earth orbit.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Space Toilet Trouble; Security Apocalypse 'Q-Day' Approaches

They are a monopoly at this point.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Space Toilet Trouble; Security Apocalypse 'Q-Day' Approaches

And so this will make them even more of a monopoly.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Space Toilet Trouble; Security Apocalypse 'Q-Day' Approaches

How does everyone else keep up?

The Last Show with David Cooper
Space Toilet Trouble; Security Apocalypse 'Q-Day' Approaches

How do you ensure that access to space isn't controlled by one guy with a social media problem?