TSLA Investor Discussions

[Uncle Ron]

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[gg_got_a_tesla]

Commercial space vehicle launch aborted

Well Dragon is still on the launch pad and the stock did not go down. Oh it's Saturday ....

Tuesday or Wednesday now in the middle of the trading week. Feel more concerned about SpaceX's success in general than with Tesla's. Showing the world that EVs can be cool, fun yet practical is one thing; opening up the space frontier in a relatively-affordable, red-tape-less way is a whole other ball game!

[daniel]

I don't think the SpaceX delay will affect TSLA. Space launches always have delays. NASA was always delaying launches. I'm sure the Russians delay launches. It's in the nature of the beast. Even if (heaven forbid!) the mission failed, I don't think TSLA would be affected. Apparently they had a one-second launch window. It would have been surprising if they had been able to make that.

I do expect TSLA to continue to be a wild roller-coaster ride. Some time after the S is in full production, I expect it to climb, but I expect that climb to be superimposed over the same wild fluctuations as we see now, with general market forces, or the selling of shares by some big fund, or some bit of news, or nothing at all causing it to go way up and down. But up overall with the success of the S and then the X and then Bluestar (which I suppose they'll end up releasing as the Model B -- for all their engineering genius, they lack imagination in the selection of model names).

[zack]

One second launch window! Wow.

[vfx]

Speaking of investing in general.... I've come to realize that, in general, if you find a really profitable company with a great future, it's probably privately held. (Why would they share the profits if they don't have to?) The exceptions are capital-intensive companies (like Tesla) which need a lot of investors, and companies where the founders are trying to cash out -- and I don't really think the latter group are good long-term investments.

Levis Strauss was private then public and went private again.

[zack]

So was Guitar Center. Bain provided them with a leveraged buyout to go back to private from public, which was in some ways a scam by the majority stockholders who wanted to cash out after jacking up their stock's price through a form of manipulation. They ended up with a $650M loan. The company still owes the full principal, many years later, and from what I've heard, they've also accumulated another $1.3B in debt.

[dmckinstry]

One second launch window! Wow.

Yes. One key person sneezing scrubs it. I don't care if it's mostly automated.

[Mile Erlic]

If anything, the data acquisition and the timely error trap of the excess pressure in Merlin engine 5 and quick discovery of the root cause (faulty check valve) makes me more confident about Tesla. Certainly SpaceX technology is finding its way into Tesla, through conduit known as Elon Musk.

[jerry33]

If anything, the data acquisition and the timely error trap of the excess pressure in Merlin engine 5

Wow! Learn something new every day. To me a Merlin engine is the engine found in Spitfires and other WWII planes.

[Doug_G]

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