[rsynnott]

I mean, it was a response to a claim, without evidence, that it was valuable.

Is your position that _you_ can make assertions without evidence but that lesser mortals may not contradict you without writing a paper on the subject?

I’m convinced that a large part of the user base of this site is genuinely, literally, solipsistic.

[BurningFrog]

My position is more that it's OK to mention a well known and easily verifiable fact without digging out authoritative sources.

[rsynnott]

… No, I mean, on the face of it it’s a surprising claim. Why do you think it is valuable? What is the market?

[BurningFrog]

The simple answer is that SpaceX is worth about 1900 billion dollars at today's stock price. It's the 7th most valuable company on Earth.

According to an AI I asked, about 50% of that value is Starlink, with space launches and AI making up about 25% each.

The Starlink business depends on their cheap space launch tech, so using these rough numbers capability I'd say it is worth 75% of the company, or $1400B.

[rsynnott]

Er, don’t believe everything the magic robots tell you. Like, seriously, why on earth could you believe an LLM on this? Have we completely lost all power of critical thinking?

[BurningFrog]

The exact percentages is not the point. SpaceX is worth $1832B¹, and those are the three main revenue streams. However you slice it, their rocket launch business is extremely valuable.

¹ https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SPCX/