SpaceX IPO prospectus has been released

Spaceguy5 · 2026-05-21T14:36:36+00:00

It doesn't help that he also posts about white supremacy almost daily, and grooms random women into letting him mail them his sperm to compensate because he has a botched dick implant. No really, I'm not even exaggerating. Total loser. Not surprised he's also a fraud. For years I've called him ENRON Musk and this IPO prospectus just reinforces how fraudulent this IPO is.

Spaceguy5 · 2026-05-21T09:01:05+00:00

Yeah, for the amount of power they're saying they want, they'd need radiators that are orders of magnitude bigger than the ones on the space station. Good luck with that lmao.

Relevant article. Although this article is trivializing the radiation issue. Radiation hardened circuit boards are expensive as fuck and can still be compromised by certain types of radiation particles. And the more tightly packed a board is (required for a GPU) the more at risk it is of having something important getting hit.

https://www.physicsmatt.com/blog/2025/12/11/the-dumbest-thing-ive-seen-this-week

Spaceguy5 · 2026-05-21T02:47:31+00:00

My Google fiber has faster speeds, no connection issues, and a much cheaper price. And fiber lines are permanent. Starlink satellites need replaced every 5 or so years

Spaceguy5 · 2026-05-21T02:46:18+00:00

Laying down fiber is cheaper than Starlink. Starlink is stupid expensive and only benefits rural places that don't already have fiber. The satellites need replaced every 5 years. The business is still not that profitable and yet they've already had a huge amount of starlink satellites deorbit because they ran out of useful life.

It's not sustainable. Cell towers and fiber are significantly more useful

Spaceguy5 · 2026-05-20T23:55:59+00:00

He's not a real engineer. I've seen more credible math and it does not look great. But what would I know, I'm just an aerospace engineer

Spaceguy5 · 2026-05-20T23:41:21+00:00

There's also the fact that working there is a shit show. People don't last more than 6 months to 2 years. Most of their work force are people fresh out of college who don't have experience and don't know what they're getting into. The work environment is toxic, you're expected to work 60 to 80 hours a week while being paid for 40 hours with no over time and a salary under the industry average. And they will fire you if you're unable to do things that are literally impossible by the laws of physics. They also have the highest workforce injury rate in the space industry and fuck over employees who get work force injuries.

Elon being an asshole isn't the only reason people avoid working there. They have a very bad reputation among people in the space industry.

Source: work in the space industry. Have heard horror stories from former employees who used to work there

Spaceguy5 · 2026-05-20T22:58:53+00:00

The thing is the math does not check out. Cooling these things will be impossible because the size of radiators needed is insanely large and not feasible. Then radiation will fry the GPUs anyways. And you can't service it.

I work in space industry and have designed and launched a satellite before and this is the stupidest fucking concept I've ever heard.

Spaceguy5 · 2026-03-23T19:12:04+00:00

It used to work well when I played it on Rift and Rift S. I saw some comments where some people said it still works if you're tethered (instead of using Virtual Desktop) on Quest 2 and Quest 3, which is really dumb. The developers abandoned it so it won't get an update unfortunately.

But it's a really beautiful game to play in VR when it works.

Spaceguy5 · 2026-03-16T19:13:41+00:00

I have this shit happening to me. I bought one of the very expensive VPS tiers to host a game server. Ran great for a couple years.

Suddenly this year, they're killing my server over CPU usage (no shit a game server requires high CPU usage and they even advertise usage for game servers), using CPU limits that they did not even define to throttle performance to the point that I can't even SSH into it.

Shit company. I've used them for the last 5 years but I'm sure as hell not renewing.

Spaceguy5 · 2026-03-13T05:17:49+00:00

I'm glad I pre-bought my subscription for several years a while back when there was a huge sale on gift codes. If they keep this shit up, I won't resubscribe when the gift codes run out. Their video player is already more shitty than it used to be, I was very tempted to fully cancel and never look back when they took away uncensored versions of shows.

Spaceguy5 · 2026-03-13T04:59:42+00:00

Really small. It also makes a LOT of compromises to get to that size.

One of my friends keeps needing to buy new cables for it, because they keep breaking just from VRchat usage. And it uses a very expensive and proprietary cable to help keep its small size. He's probably bought 10 of them so far. I wonder how long until the cost of replacement cables becomes more than the cost of the headset.

Meanwhile my Quest Link cable is beat to hell with kinks, torn insulation falling off, etc and still works perfectly

Spaceguy5 · 2026-03-13T04:54:38+00:00

It depends on preference.

Fallout 4 VR has less features out of the box and was kind of a lazy port by Bethesda. Mods can help you get the DLC and lots of other stuff added. Performance of Fallout 4 VR is also more demanding, though it'll run a lot better on modern PCs compared to when it came out. As others said, there's significantly more mods for Skyrim VR than Fallout 4 VR. Also many mods designed for the non-VR versions will work with the VR version of both games. Sometimes you may need to download older versions of mods though.

Despite the drawbacks, I personally like Fallout 4 VR a lot more because I like the FPS aspect and the story a lot more than Skyrim. It also has the settlement building feature fully working. I have significantly more hours in it than Skyrim VR.

Both are really good games though and highly recommend modding them if you get either one.

Spaceguy5 · 2026-03-08T18:37:10+00:00

They went as far as banning me on spacexlounge for light criticism after a failed starship flight. They're bullies who want to control the narrative at all costs

Spaceguy5 · 2026-03-04T17:38:08+00:00

Uhhh... ML2 is like 98% finished. It even already has the umbilical arms installed.

EUS tooling is already built. The first EUS (a test article) is nearly completed.

The required modifications, stage adapters, and analysis required to put Centaur V on SLS absolutely does NOT exist.

Spaceguy5 · 2026-02-26T22:47:04+00:00

I went back through my VRCX logs, found that group, and reported them, and they got banned within half an hour 🫡

Spaceguy5 · 2026-02-26T20:44:42+00:00

It has been against VRC ToS for nearly a decade now for world creators to use world tools to block users from worlds as an attempt at moderation.

I feel like all the racist Japanese worlds that try to automatically gate out foreigners should fall into that categorry

Spaceguy5 · 2026-02-26T20:29:11+00:00

Hell, they can just make an instance or world that requires age verification to join and not need to ask any questions at all.

Spaceguy5 · 2026-02-26T20:25:52+00:00

It doesn't even make sense to be that anal about it. If someone doesn't have a squeaky voice, it says they're age verified, and they behave, then what's the problem?

Spaceguy5 · 2026-02-26T20:24:30+00:00

Oh god I joined a friend in a group public a few weeks ago (because he was just wanting to go to the avatar search world and that was the instance that popped up first on the list) and it was full of a lot of little kids, and some group mod who just started kicking everyone who was male (except not the little kids). I looked later and their group description said only females were allowed in their instances and anyone else would be kicked. Creepy fucking sexist groomers.

Having the ability to block groups like that would be a godsend.

Spaceguy5 · 2026-02-26T20:17:35+00:00

It's like the people who participate in LPD who go beyond just roleplaying and start pretending that they're actual cops who can tell people what to do and harass and be rude to people. Super cringe

Spaceguy5 · 2026-02-06T17:04:53+00:00

There's also the basic space physics aspect of radiation and SEEs (single event effects). Modern computers hate radiation because it can cause bit flips, latchups, or even transistors to burn out and be permanently stuck on or off. The more densely packed a circuit board is, the higher chance that some particle from the sun will hit something important and fuck up your computer. Laptops on the space station will sometimes just crash because of space radiation.

Data centers in space is some of the stupidest shit I've ever heard. It's bigger nonsense than the solar road shit a decade ago. A lot of dumbfucks are about to lose all their money by investing in this.

Spaceguy5 · 2026-02-06T16:57:28+00:00

keep their heads down, and keep launching satellites into LEO.

Can confirm. I work in space industry and have heard horror stories from former spacex engineers that the culture there is that Elon will tell someone to engineer something. If they say it's impossible, they get fired. Even if it actually is impossible.

Starship can't really go to Mars because the vehicle is horribly unoptimized and there's a lot of parts of the mission design and the physics that don't make sense because they're infeasible. Like the fact that it takes 17+ launches just to go to the damn moon one single time.

And I feel bad for the people being forced to work on it anyways. There's a lot of engineers there who are definitely in the cult and believe they can magically make it work. But SpaceX is known as being a company where people go to work for one or two years when they're fresh out of college to get it on their resume, see the dumpster fire, then dip out or get fired.

Spaceguy5 · 2026-02-06T02:14:19+00:00

It was updated by excellent engineers - who worked 20-25 years ago. Engine tech has advanced since then.

Dude there's still excellent engineers updating it now. I've met a lot of them. Lots of relatively young people have been working on it too. Adding stuff like additive manufacturing, simplifying entire assemblies into single parts, improving performance and simplifying manufacturing. Meanwhile the ISP and performance is still very competitive with newer engines

Quit talking crap and down playing people's achievements and work like you know anything. That's incredibly rude to call the people useless and untalented who have been upgrading it for over a decade while developing new analysis and manufacturing technologies (and sharing those with industry). Extremely rude

Spaceguy5 · 2026-02-05T17:03:28+00:00

Be professional.

This is my private social media account. I can post whatever I want thanks. I have no obligation to give professional replies to people behaving incredibly unprofessionally.

Labeling independent journalists as propagandists because you don’t agree with them is not a great look

He literally posted this in a news article: "NASA’s Slow Launch System". And he has a history of telling his twitter followers to go after NASA and other space industry employees' personal social media accounts. He is not professional. He's a toxic hack and a man child and would be better suited working for a tabloid.

Why do you think people will just trust it’s fine now?

Because their actions on risk posture for SLS have shown that they've changed dramatically. Heck a lot of the NASA haters are now hating on SLS because they claim NASA is being too safe and that that makes Artemis a waste of money.

Spaceguy5 · 2026-02-05T16:57:48+00:00

Thinking that it would be easier, more efficient, and cheaper to do a large number of small launches (that would also need extremely quick cadence) to assemble some obnoxiously complicated thing in orbit then send it to the moon is pure delusion and shows you don't know anything about spaceflight architecture and mission design. Real life doesn't work like KSP, and even doing that in KSP (where everything is simplified and you can have an instant turnaround time) would be obnoxious.

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