“@waitbutwhy @SpaceX We will try”
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“@WholeMarsBlog The head of Saudi PIF committed unequivocally to take Tesla private with me, as witnessed by the Tesla CFO and several others. That is why I said funding was secured.”
“@WholeMarsBlog Curses, foiled again!”
“@SciGuySpace Full & rapid reusability of booster & ship and orbital refilling of ship are the 2 fundamental technologies we aim to solve by the end of next year. Those are the critical pieces necessary to make life multiplanetary.”
“@WholeMarsBlog Penalizing sustainable energy is insane”
“Aiming for two rocket landings in 48 hours this weekend https://t.co/C1CZW2cQgv https://www.instagram.com/p/BZzchfKg07f/”
“@WholeMarsBlog Tesla will spend around $10B this year in combined training and inference AI, the latter being primarily in car. Any company not spending at this level, and doing so efficiently, cannot compete.”
“@stclairashley @libsoftiktok Sometimes it thinks rocket pics are dicks, which is … crazy of course”
“@ElonsWorld @Tesla @SpaceX @neuralink @boringcompany @EashanMisra That would probably mean civilization is doing great, although depends on assumptions for inflation haha”
“Aiming for 10 Falcon flights in a month by end of this year, then 12 per month next year”
“@NASASpaceflight Unlike its aircraft division, which is fine, the FAA space division has a fundamentally broken regulatory structure. Their rules are meant for a handful of expendable launches per year from a few government facilities. Under those rules, humanity will never get to Mars.”
“@SciGuySpace @raikohtech I am confident that Starship will land humans on Mars. That path is clear. But what really matters is securing the future of consciousness, not just getting a small number of people to Mars. That probably requires getting over 100,000 people and 1M tons of cargo to Mars.”
“While I have great fondness for @NASA, they will constitute less than 5% of our revenue next year. Commercial Starlink is by far our largest contributor to revenue. Some people have claimed that SpaceX gets “subsidized” by NASA. This is absolutely false. The SpaceX team won… https://t.co/5ebFse5Eg4 https://x.com/i/web/status/1997401910635278368”
“Mars V2 plan coming soon, which I think addresses the most fundamental flaw in V1: how to pay for development & operation of giant rockets https://t.co/yaITdVdpEc https://x.com/sciam/status/875756138121310208”
“@JonErlichman 5 years ago. We need to accelerate progress towards fully reusable rockets. Cost per ton to orbit needs to improve by >1000% from where Falcon is today for there to be a self-sustaining city on Mars.”
“@ErcXspace Very close to real! Arms are able to move during descent to match exact booster position. Catch point is off to side, in case catch fails – don’t want to hit launch mount. Booster is transferred back to launch mount for next flight. Designed to have <1 hour turnaround.”
“@NASA @NASAInSight Congratulations! What an amazing track record of success with Mars!”
“SpaceX standard antenna production rises rapidly this year, so those with orders shouldn’t have to wait long. Note, Starlink can only support a limited number of users in an area, so best to order early.”
“SpaceX main body tool for the BFR interplanetary spaceship https://t.co/WbTITI6WSu https://www.instagram.com/p/BhVk3y3A0yB/”
“Going to try to catch the giant fairing (nosecone) of Falcon 9 as it falls back from space at… https://t.co/CVS2PoaJah https://www.instagram.com/p/BfgHKDNAplx/”
“@EvaFoxU @SpaceX That was our last chance to reach orbit. If it had failed, SpaceX would have died.”
“@WholeMarsBlog Fusion would be expensive energy, given difficulty of obtaining and transporting source fuel, plus maintaining the reactor. Far better to use the Sun – thermonuclear reactor with no need to refuel or service.”
“@chhardman @PeterHotez @joerogan But it was a mistake to push for so many Covid-19 booster shots (even the initial vaccine shot was overkill on quantity). There‘s obviously risk of the immune system going out of control when it sees what what you’ve trained it to believe is a serious disease over & over again.”
“@ai_for_success For a few years, then SpaceX will far exceed everyone combined”
“@WholeMarsBlog As mentioned earlier, v11.4.1 has major architectural improvements. It’s actually much more than a point release. Should arguably be v12.0, but that’s reserved for when FSD is fully AI from video in to control out.”
“@SpaceX Krypton ion thrusters activate in about 3 hours to raise orbit”
“@SpaceX Worth noting that thrust is only slightly higher with the big bell nozzle version. Larger bell is primarily for efficiency in vacuum. Aiming for 380+ sec Isp for RVac long-term. Initially likely to be ~372.”
“@VladSaigau SpaceX has over 9000 satellites orbiting Earth right now, which is twice as many as the rest of the world combined. So maybe we know a thing or two about the subject …”
“Upcoming Falcon Heavy 🚀 & 🛰 details”
“@WholeMarsBlog 😂💯 Also, to be clear, I am NOT taking drugs! The New York Times was lying their ass off. I tried *prescription* ketamine a few years ago and said so on 𝕏, so this not even news. It helps for getting out of dark mental holes, but haven’t taken it since then.”
“@waitbutwhy Starlink is a new version of the Internet in space”
“@crheller @SpaceX Glad it’s working! The sheer amount of work done by SpaceX engineering, production & launch teams is amazing. Ping should improve dramatically in coming months. We’re aiming for <20ms. Basically, you should be able to play competitive FPS games through Starlink.”
“@BillyM2k @Gerashchenko_en SpaceX Starlink has become the connectivity backbone of Ukraine all the way up to the front lines. This is the damned if you do part. However, we are not allowing Starlink to be used for long-range drone strikes. This is the damned if you don’t part.”
“@CSI_Starbase @LabPadre High-strength stainless steel armor is needed to protect the launch stand from the world’s biggest blowtorch! Even steel will be eroded fast by the Starship booster plume. We will need to make a water-cooled steel jacket to achieve full reusability.”
“@TeslaAIBot @SpaceX @Tesla Thanks Optimus :)”
“@hoppar_app @SpaceX @DJSnM @spacex360 @SpaceXStarship @StarshipGazer @NASASpaceflight @Erdayastronaut @MarcusHouse @FelixSchlang @ErcXspace Pretty close to what we’re aiming for”
“@flcnhvy @thatdogegirl @WhatsupFranks @TeslaGong Becoming multiplanetary is one of the greatest filters. Only now, 4.5 billion years after Earth formed, is it possible. How long this window to reach Mars remains open is uncertain. Perhaps a long time, perhaps not. In case it is the latter, we should act now.”
“RT @MarioNawfal: JPMORGAN CEO: ELON IS OUR EINSTEIN Jamie Dimon: “You’ve got to look at Elon, at SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink – the guy is ou…”
“@StarshipFairing @SpaceX @ulalaunch @blueorigin @relativityspace @torybruno @thetimellis Design is easy, production is hard”
“@SpaceX Fairing halves recovered https://t.co/F82LE8JlLJ”
“Falcon Heavy maiden launch this November https://t.co/D4Dxq9d6hc https://www.instagram.com/p/BXEkGKlgJDK/”
“@SpaceX We’re updating satellite software to run the ion thrusters at their equivalent of warp 9. Unlike a Star Trek episode, this will probably not work, but it’s worth a shot. The satellite thrusters need to raise orbit faster than atmospheric drag pulls them down or they burn up.”
“@SpaceX Each fairing half is a fully capable reentry vehicle with its own thrusters, thermal protection, avionics & sensor suite”
“Mars Awaits https://t.co/ZDo1pjT6q4 https://www.instagram.com/p/Bey4NfSgWAi/”
“RT @thatsKAIZEN: Trump said we’re going to Mars. He said God. He said there are two genders. He said merit. He said we will defeat our…”
“@WholeMarsBlog Total headcount will increase, but salaried should be fairly flat”
“Hold-down firing of @SpaceX Falcon 9 at Vandenberg Air Force completed. All systems are go for launch next week.”
“@SecDuffy The safety of air travel is a non-partisan matter. SpaceX engineers will help make air travel safer.”
“@Globe_Mars @CNBC We must safeguard the future of life by transitioning to sustainable energy on Earth & becoming multiplanetary via Mars. It’s not clear how much time we have to do these things, but sooner is definitely better.”
“@WholeMarsBlog Without billions of miles of training data, solving self-driving is impossible”
