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“@WholeMarsBlog Essentially, passive Autopilot (car intervenes only when crash probability is high) cuts crashes in half. Active Autopilot (car is driving itself) cuts crashes in half again. Doesn’t mean there are no crashes, but, on balance, Autopilot is unequivocally safer.”
“Dragon spacecraft & Falcon 9 rocket https://t.co/A6fsNlsN9z”
“If we make life multiplanetary, there may come a day when some plants & animals die out on Earth, but are still alive on Mars”
“Make life multiplanetary! #Mars”
“@SpaceXMR Soon it will be real”
“@janixos @ErcXspace @SpaceX Actually, yes. And Red Rocket truck stop.”
“@WholeMarsBlog Button timing of May is aspirational. Depends on how well limited beta of V9.0 goes, but I would be surprised if wide beta (aka button) is later than June. FSD subscription next month is a sure thing.”
“@ErcXspace @SpaceX 69th Raptor engine coming soon”
“@AstroJordy @PPathole @SpaceX @Tesla That version of Falcon 1 never flew, so must be ~2004. The CAD looks so simple! I think we were still using SolidWorks back then.”
“@eugenelee3 @PPathole @SpaceX @Tesla Yeah, not scalable. My grad student idea was to try to use advanced chip making equipment to create high energy density capacitors accurate to molecular level.”
“@PPathole @SpaceX @Tesla That was my night job. Day job was working on ruthenium-tantalum ultracapacitors at Pinnacle Research.”
“@PPathole @SpaceX @Tesla True. Ancient times … Had to flip CPU registers explicitly, as computer was so slow.”
“@seinfeldguru @WholeMarsBlog Nope haha”
“@WholeMarsBlog If you don’t say anything & engage Autopilot, it will soon guess based on time of day, taking you home or to work or to what’s on your calendar”
“@DeltavPhotos @PortCanaveral That rocket is a hardcore veteran of many missions”
“@engineers_feed Due to lower gravity, you can travel from surface of Mars to surface of Earth fairly easily with a single stage rocket. Earth to Mars is vastly harder.”
“@tesla_adri @WholeMarsBlog These things are best thought of as probabilities. There are 5 forward-facing cameras. It is highly likely that at least one of them will see multiple cars ahead.”
“@WholeMarsBlog Sensors are a bitstream and cameras have several orders of magnitude more bits/sec than radar (or lidar). Radar must meaningfully increase signal/noise of bitstream to be worth complexity of integrating it. As vision processing gets better, it just leaves radar far behind.”
“@WholeMarsBlog When radar and vision disagree, which one do you believe? Vision has much more precision, so better to double down on vision than do sensor fusion.”
“The Starship launch tower that catches the giant rocket booster is basically Mechazilla”
“@TimBirks1 @Erdayastronaut @SpaceX Pretty much”
“@AustinTeslaClub @OwenSparks_ @WholeMarsBlog Good point. Next major software rev will do much better with automating wipers, seat heating & defrost. Probable seat settings just based on occupant mass distribution should be possible.”
“@Adamklotz_ @OwenSparks_ @WholeMarsBlog Yup”
“@OwenSparks_ @WholeMarsBlog It will”
“@OwenSparks_ @WholeMarsBlog Remove”
“@w00ki33 @SpaceX @SuperclusterHQ Simulation is improving rendering resolution …”
“@WholeMarsBlog Almost ready with FSD Beta V9.0. Step change improvement is massive, especially for weird corner cases & bad weather. Pure vision, no radar.”
“Thanks to all that helped SpaceX!”
“@dogeofficialceo @WatchersTank @SpaceX Looking at pups soon!”
“@jordanxmajel @WatchersTank @SpaceX Shock absorption is built into tower arms. Since tower is ground side, it can use a lot more mass to arrest booster downward momentum.”
“@jordanxmajel @WatchersTank @SpaceX Load points just below the grid fins”
“@WatchersTank @SpaceX Just one skyscraper catching another nbd haha”
“@DavidWillisSLS @_Jevis_ @PPathole Needs legs for moon & Mars”
“@_Jevis_ @PPathole Ideal scenario imo is catching Starship in horizontal “glide” with no landing burn, although that is quite a challenge for the tower! Next best is catching with tower, with emergency pad landing mode on skirt (no legs).”
“@PPathole Starship booster, largest flying object ever designed, will be caught out of sky by launch tower. Big step forward, as reflight can be done in under an hour.”
“@spacex360 Ascent phase, transition to horizontal & control during free fall were good. A (relatively) small CH4 leak led to fire on engine 2 & fried part of avionics, causing hard start attempting landing burn in CH4 turbopump. This is getting fixed 6 ways to Sunday.”
“@TerminalCount The Starships feast in Valhalla!”
“@HamblinZeke @katlinegrey Haha Falcon? Nein!”
“@allrocketsboi True”
“SpaceX is going to put a literal Dogecoin on the literal moon”
“@jdeshetler @NASASpaceflight @SpaceX @BocaChicaGal Can be a little foggy sometimes :)”
“@Adamklotz_ @SpaceX BN1 is a manufacturing pathfinder, so will be scrapped. We learned a lot, but have already changed design to BN2. Goal is to get BN2 with engines on orbital pad before end of April. It might even be orbit-capable if we are lucky.”
“Please consider moving to Starbase or greater Brownsville/South Padre area in Texas & encourage friends to do so! SpaceX’s hiring needs for engineers, technicians, builders & essential support personnel of all kinds are growing rapidly.”
“@CodingMark @Adamklotz_ @SpaceX More like V10.0”
“@Adamklotz_ @SpaceX Next major technology rev is at SN20. Those ships will be orbit-capable with heat shield & stage separation system. Ascent success probability is high. However, SN20+ vehicles will probably need many flight attempts to survive Mach 25 entry heating & land intact.”
“@Adamklotz_ @SpaceX SN15 rolls to launch pad in a few days. It has hundreds of design improvements across structures, avionics/software & engine. Hopefully, one of those improvements covers this problem. If not, then retrofit will add a few more days.”
“@SpaceX Looks like engine 2 had issues on ascent & didn’t reach operating chamber pressure during landing burn, but, in theory, it wasn’t needed. Something significant happened shortly after landing burn start. Should know what it was once we can examine the bits later today.”
“@SpaceX At least the crater is in the right place!”
“@SpaceX A high production rate solves many ills”
“Possible Starship flight tomorrow afternoon”
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