»[The fiction of] Mars gave SpaceX much needed urgency; an existential justification of sorts for moving fast and treating rules as impediments to a higher purpose. And orbital AI compute is now being sold to public markets as the reason to pay almost any price for its stock.«

https://www.ft.com/content/0fd15797-ac89-4222-a4bb-03a6a1330f48

Smoke and mirrors all along.

@davidgerard So now it is SpaceEx then. 😀

@davidgerard "Narrative rotation" is too polite a description for Elon Musk's high-frequency fibbing.

@davidgerard I'd recommend a move from Space to Time but that names taken.

@davidgerard Now that Google is shipping container DCs to space before anyone else, he doesn’t want it anymore