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The Guardian | Mars colony and Grok warnings: five strange details in SpaceX’s pitch to investors by Nick Robins-Early

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SpaceX has released a 300‑page investor prospectus ahead of its planned $1.75 trillion IPO, revealing detailed financials, spending patterns, and the company’s far‑reaching ambitions. The filing shows SpaceX’s extensive purchases from Tesla—including $131 million worth of Cybertrucks in 2025—alongside billions in losses, such as a $4.9 billion deficit in 2025. It reiterates the goal of establishing permanent, million‑person colonies on Mars, offering Musk a billion‑share award if that target is hit, and warns investors of the technical, regulatory, and legal risks tied to its interplanetary mission, AI chatbot “Grok” controversies, and ongoing law‑enforcement investigations. The prospectus also discloses increasing spend on Musk’s personal security, underscoring the company’s reliance on continued massive investment despite uncertain profitability.

#SpaceX #Grok #IPO #Marscolony #ElonMusk

Mars colony and Grok warnings: five strange details in SpaceX’s pitch to investors

IPO filing from Elon Musk’s company reveals look at finances, cosmic ambitions and insight into tech empire’s quirks

The Guardian

Adrian Riskin

Apr 3

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/116341564376196686

But how else will capitalists force people to pay for air, which seems to be the last thing necessary to support life that they haven't figured out how to charge people for?

#Capitalism #Mars #SpaceColonies #MarsColony

Arnd Layer Mar 25

Isn’t it #ironic that the guy who promised a #MarsColony is probably the same that throws us back centuries by causing the #KesslerSyndrome with his LEO satellites?

Quantum2077 Apr 4, 2025

🪐 Would YOU live on Mars? 🚀
No air. No water. No way back (yet). 😨
So why are we still planning to live on Mars? NASA, SpaceX, and private companies are racing to build the first Martian settlements.
If humans colonize Mars, should it be run by governments, corporations, or an independent Martian society? 👀💬
Read more in:
🔗 https://quantum2077.com/mars-epic-journey-to-the-thrilling-red-planet/
#LifeOnMars #FutureCivilization #Quantum2077 #MarsColony #SpaceFuture #ColonizingMars

Mars: Epic Journey To The Thrilling Red Planet | Quantum2077

Destination Mars! Explore our thrilling red planet rendezvous and Embark on an exhilarating voyage to the Martian frontier.

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Neil Thurogood Nov 28, 2024

Perhaps life in a lunar or Mars colony isn't/won't be too bad
There is no need to execute criminals by spacing them (as if) everyone lives underground, access to the surface can be a reward/denying a punishment
And the internet and VR allows relative contact with 🌎/the #speedoflight isn't that slow so that text conversations are 🚫

@Thelonious08
You should see it that way:

If we can manage to have all crazy dorks on mars, they aren't on earth anymore.

@uspolitics
#uspol #uspolitics #Elon #Musk #ElonMusk #FascistEnablers #trump #resistance #FascistTakover #Mars #Insane #Idiot #Moron #MarsColony

Thelonious08 Nov 10, 2024

His colony on Mars will be ruled by batshit crazy dorks.

#uspol #uspolitics #Elon #Musk #ElonMusk #FascistEnablers #trump #resistance #FascistTakover #Mars #Insane #Idiot #Moron #MarsColony

Anthony Sep 12, 2024

Wow this is beautiful, if bleak. Sorry to quote at such length but it's too good. He also pegs #ElonMusk well towards the end (though I'm not going to quote that bit).
Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does.

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The South Pole is around 2,800 meters above sea level, and like everywhere else on Earth around 44 million miles closer to the sun than any point on Mars. It sits deep down inside the nutritious atmosphere of a planet teeming with native life. Compared to the very most hospitable place on Mars it is an unimaginably fertile Eden. Here is a list of the plant-life that grows there: Nothing. Here is a list of all the animals that reproduce there: None.

Life on earth writ large, the grand network of life, is a greater and more dynamic terraforming engine than any person could ever conceive. It has been operating ceaselessly for several billions of years. It has not yet terraformed the South Pole or the summit of Mount Everest. On what type of timeframe were you imagining that the shoebox of lichen you send to Mars was going to transform Frozen Airless Radioactive Desert Hell into a place where people could grow wheat?
From https://defector.com/neither-elon-musk-nor-anybody-else-will-ever-colonize-mars

#Eugenics #Longtermism #EffectiveAltruism #Mars #MarsColony

Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector

Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic active dynamo at Mars’s dead core? No? Well. It’s fine. I’m sure you have some other workable, sustainable plan…

Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson Sep 12, 2024

"Humankind will never establish a permanent human settlement on Mars. Ever. Moreover there is no need to try to come up with some way to build one there.”

https://defector.com/neither-elon-musk-nor-anybody-else-will-ever-colonize-mars

#Mars #SpaceExploration #MarsColony #SpaceKaren