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New Gigabay in Starbase may produce 1,000 Starship rockets a year.

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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

spoiler: it won’t

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It’s scheduled for two weeks after full self driving comes online.

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

Is that before or after Mars?

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Please add "Divorced To The Billionth Degree Dad Sits In Largest Warehouse On Earth Alone And Grumpy" to your bingo cards.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 6 points 2 days ago

He also says self-driving Teslas are going to make him a trillion dollars. Where would the funding for 1000 rockets even come from? The feds?

[–] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Maybe Elron could get Starships to stop blowing up constantly and then work on that.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

You know what? Great. Stay the fuck out of politics for a while, employ a bunch of people to half build some piece of shit; as far as work goes, it probably beats digging ditches

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

All of which will explode in tangerine glory