The chips are attached to impermanent brain flesh. That has been the brick wall in our way for fifty years. Any benefit is short term, and the long term implications are harrowing. This field would have advanced at roughly the same rate without subjecting people and animals to undue risks.
FiniteBanjo
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Yes and it stands. I'm still comparing SpaceX to Neuralink in terms of unethical rushed testing and development, and it still stands. What I'm not referring to is the products that SpaceX ships, YOU were the one who brought that up.
I don't think exploding was part of the test. I don't think being investigated by the FAA in 2020 for failure to listen to warnings about unintended shockwave damage was part of their tests. I don't think losing an entire rocket to a booster explosion last year was part of the test.
I think their tests are throwing things at the stainless steel wall and hoping it sticks.
Then you are wrong.
Tesla is 19.9% of EV market share, Starlink isn't "breaking monopolies" it is one, and SpaceX has accomplished some great things by underpaying engineers.
In most of these cases, Elon Musk hasn't been taking an active role in the companies, part of the reason he was denied his 56Bn Bonus that he is currently desperately trying to pay himself out of Tesla's finances.
That's not analogous to the situation with the brain chips. We're in the testing phases, and the testing phases for SpaceX rockets involves so many unplanned explosions that they've been in multiple investigations.
He's looked pretty creepy for the past 10 years imo.
I've seen how they run their rocketry business. Success isn't always their goal.
Unironically yes, he's just throwing money at scifi concepts and hoping it pays off.
Still a questionable decision. Brain interface tech isn't even that new or novel, but the real bottleneck is that flesh is temporary, eventually the attachment place will die and be replaced. That's exactly what we saw with their first brain chip and other attempts going back at least 50 years.
You would have a life and people who care about you, regardless of use of your legs.
Falcon 9 is unmanned, and the Soyuz still has better stats according to your own source.