​Sure, let’s smoosh SpaceX and Tesla together, who cares 

​Sure, let’s smoosh SpaceX and Tesla together, who cares 

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Elon Musk with money.

Mars not depicted. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images

Oh sure, SpaceX’s credit risk is pretty high because it’s about to borrow another $40 billion to spend on Nvidia chips, but who cares about that? SpaceX and Tesla have formed special committees to discuss a merger!

The degree to which you find this merger compelling likely has to do with the degree to which you believe Elon Musk about wanting to go to Mars, or “spread the light of consciousness,” as he put it in this week’s SpaceX earnings call (and earlier S-1). Now, a reasonably informed person knows that we don’t have the technology – or, frankly, even the raw information to build the technology – in order to support human life in space. …

Read the full story at The Verge.

 

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