Forget Facebook, SpaceX Success Has Market Thinking 'IPO'

The Street ^ | 05/31/12

[KevinDavis]

SpaceX's Dragon capsule splashed down today after completing a successful mission to deliver cargo to the International Space Station (ISS). The success marks a milestone in commercial space travel and exploration, since the Dragon capsule was the first privately owned spacecraft to successfully reach the space station.

[KevinDavis]

Now this is an IPO can I truly get behind..

[KevinDavis]

[neodad]

I would definitely buy shares of a battlestar...

[cripplecreek]

Now let’s get the asteroid mining going.

[Jack Hydrazine]

I’d rather it stay completely private so the stockholders don’t screw up the company.

[KevinDavis]

Amen..

[freedumb2003]

Spacebook, baby!

Heinlein’s Delos D. Harriman’s dream comes true — only 40 years later.

[SoFloFreeper]

Well hell, at least THIS company does something. Facebook, and yes I belong to it, is a grown up version of Dungeons & Dragons--mildly amusing but overall a huge waste of time.

[KevinDavis]

I agree.. Facebook offers nothing, SpaceX offers something..

[ldish]

yea just as long as the same ole assholes on wall street can make their billions on the backs or the buyers goping to make a few hundreds or thousands...we all need to buy into another ipo...whether it is worth it or not the same bums make the ssame millions and billions!

[free me]

You’re late for your OWS protest.

[ldish]

don;t support ows...don’t hate the rich...but wall street is pretty rotten...and govt dems and reps are all in bed together...buying each other out..tbtf...bailouts...and on and on...most of us that once were or still barely are in the so called middle class get screwed on every buy and sell on wall street these days...much worse now than ever before...don;t mind someone actually doing work to get ahead and being successful...just hate the ones that screw people over “managing and advising” others on their money

[ldish]

don;t support ows...don’t hate the rich...but wall street is pretty rotten...and govt dems and reps are all in bed together...buying each other out..tbtf...bailouts...and on and on...most of us that once were or still barely are in the so called middle class get screwed on every buy and sell on wall street these days...much worse now than ever before...don;t mind someone actually doing work to get ahead and being successful...just hate the ones that screw people over “managing and advising” others on their money

[free me]

I’m with you on the crony capitalism part but I have had no problem making money investing in stocks over the long haul.

(I am what they call a retail investor, not a billionaire type)

If you believe a company has good management and a good product etc., and you’re right about it, you will make money investing in it.

[ldish]

what i hate about the market per se is it has just become “robot” in it’s trading...only the big reakky trade and it (the market) has now become just a fraud...propted up by bernanky’s printing of new dollars at the average mans expense...it is like going to vegas and shooting craps...or russian roulette to live or die by what is really going on there. i worked hard for my money...but don’t have the money to be gambling like that with the govt sacks greedsteers who know everything before it happens for them on the inside...but will bring us in too early...or leave us in too long when it benefits them on every deal...and btw if they ever f*ck up they are bailed out on their loses...but for us it is tuff sh*t...once upon A TIME WHEN THE AVERAGE MAN ACCURES A MILLION OR TWO OVER HIS OR HER LIFE TIME you could get some retirement income safely making 3% - 5% in CDs or saving or treasuries...but now hell 1% or so...banks get free money from the fed and go it for these safey points competing again with the average guy and they don’t even have to make a risky loan to anyone to do it...just another rig of the system to pump up the flow into equities...but really just govnt intervention by the masters...we are lossing ground evveryday and will in time just be receivers..sheeple in line

[KevinDavis]

Sorry, but you sound like someone from OWS.. Comrade..

[ldish]

nope...read any of my past comments....but never mind...not everyone is entitled to their opinions any longer i see...they have to be categorized by how they feel on one subject on everything ekse...am over 60 and have made much money working for myself and others...most advise i have ever gotten was from those hotshots younger than me that could taste my wealth and money i had worked hard for more than me...back when i was a director level with over 300 folks working for me the CEO of the company only made 10 times my annual salary but now with the same company they make more than 100 times the same paying level...they had to keep up with movie stars, and rock stars and pro sports stars and now so do the wall street stars...got to make a home run on every deal every time...no one is in for the long haul or the long days and years of work...but that always and eventually ends up on the back of someone else...times have changed...for the good or bad...don't natter to me anymore...go for it!