The tweet archive.

“@imPenny2x And deliver over 200 tons of payload to a useful orbit with full & rapid reusability. 50 rockets flying every 3 days on average enables over a megaton of payload to orbit per year – enough to build a self-sustaining city on Mars.”

“@iliketeslas @WholeMarsBlog Other cars change prices constantly and often by wide margins via dealer markups and manufacturer/dealer incentives. Only a fool thinks the “MSRP” is the real price. Tesla prices must change frequently in order to match production with demand.”

“@awoooouwuooooo @danpiemont This is a matter of execution, rather than ideas. Unless we make the heat shield relatively heavy, as is the case with our Dragon capsule, where reliability is paramount, we will only discover the weak points by flying. Right now, we are not resilient to loss of a single tile…”

“@SpaceXMR Tragically, it is not clear that the defense contractors can get to the moon for any amount of money. More than $200B has been spent on development of new US crewed space transport systems over past ~40 years, but only Dragon is flying. Development cost to NASA was <$2B.”

“@WholeMarsBlog Suppliers. We’re only doing high energy nickel ourselves, at least for now. Also, maybe the presentation wasn’t clear that we’ve actually had our cells in packs driving cars for several months. Prototypes are trivial, volume production is hard.”

“@ray4tesla Did my best to warn people that LiDAR isn’t optimal for cars. Roads are designed for biological neural nets & eyes, so digital neural nets & cameras will work best. I say this even though Dragon uses LiDAR for docking with Station, so I don’t intrinsically hate that technology.”

“RT @cb_doge: ELON MUSK: "I'm a technologist. I build rockets and cars. I derive joy from seeing people enjoy the products that my companies…”

“@SawyerMerritt Cybertrucks get preferential parking, as they look much more futuristic than normal cars and are poetically aligned with the stainless steel of Starship”

“@teslaownersSV @iamyesyouareno @MarioNawfal The specific area I’m talking about is engineering, which is needed to build the best technology. Encouraging kids to learn how things work is the key. Take apart car engines, toasters, microwave ovens, speakers, etc. Make model airplanes, rockets, cars. As you’re doing this…”

“RT @teslaownersSV: “I cannot be President, and I actually don't want to be President. So, to be clear, I want to build rockets and cars.”…”

“Flying through the Falcon Factory https://t.co/kIuqfD3MLQ https://www.instagram.com/p/BVarZZSgfIP/”

“RT @teslaownersSV: The starship is the largest flying object ever made, and it was able to be caught by chopsticks https://t.co/iMkJAWGsOz”

“@WholeMarsBlog @tkrisher He’s actually a lobbyist, not a journalist. There are many who pose as the latter while behaving like the former. No integrity. Indeed, there were no safety issues. The car simply slowed to ~2 mph & continued forward if clear view with no cars or pedestrians.”

“@JasonDanheiser @WholeMarsBlog @28delayslater Self-driving cars & useful humanoid robots require a sophisticated understanding of reality. I am increasingly convinced that they are on the path to solving AGI. Should AGI be solved? I don’t know, but humanity is moving rapidly in this direction whether I like it or not.”

“@FutureJurvetson @_BryceTech @SpaceX Once Starship is flying frequently with real payloads next year, then SpaceX will probably deliver >95% of total Earth payload to orbit, despite others, especially China, continuing to grow. In 2027, maybe as high as 98%.”

“@PeterDiamandis Let’s get Starship V3 flying repeatedly and then sure”

“@WholeMarsBlog FSD/AI team is doing great work. Will get superhuman good in upcoming releases. Note, we will slow down upload rate of releases going forward. First from QA fleet to employee cars for a day, then slowly releasing at ~1000 cars/hr to external beta on Friday aft.”

“@WallStreetMav I’m just trying to add some beauty to my feed in between politics, AI, cars & Mars 😂”

“@TashaARK Additive manufacturing of parts is still far too costly for cars, but can rapidly create tooling to accelerate pace of innovation. It’s already sensible for rocket engine parts. To the best of our knowledge, SpaceX is 2 or 3 years ahead of other companies in use of additive.”

“@cb_doge They kept calling me “Internet Entrepreneur” who didn’t understand rockets, now sometimes I’m thought of as cars/rockets guy who doesn’t understand the Internet 😂”

“Falcon Heavy thrust will be 5.1M lbf at liftoff -- twice any rocket currently flying. It's a beast...”

“@SawyerMerritt Hydrogen is silly for cars and only barely sensible for rockets, where payload is ~1000 times more valuable”

“RT @teslaownersSV: "I'm a technologist. I build rockets and cars. I derive joy from seeing people enjoy the products that my companies make…”

“RT @Gwynne_Shotwell: From learning to land a rocket to flying the same booster 30 times! Congrats to the @SpaceX team for continuing to ma…”

“@WholeMarsBlog @Herbert_Diess Fuel cells should be called fool sells! Such a silly choice for cars. Not great even for a rocket upper stage imo, but at least not absurd.”

“@teslaownersSV Starship is the largest flying object ever made”

“RT @iam_smx: Starship is the largest and most powerful flying object ever made, and it is just getting started. https://t.co/BdR0ZhZk6l”

“@WholeMarsBlog There will be some buying of cars for individual ownership, but self-driving cars will be >90% of miles driven”

“RT @teslaownersSV: Starship is by far the most powerful flying object ever made. Each Raptor rocket engine produces twice as much thrust…”

“RT @WholeMarsBlog: The most American made cars you can buy are from Tesla Support your country, support your neighbors, and jump 10 years…”

“@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.”

“@Erdayastronaut @ValkyrieBaron11 @flcnhvy @NASASpaceflight A fully & rapidly reusable orbital rocket is fundamental to extending life beyond Earth. Propellant cost is roughly a 1000th of vehicle cost (unless using a foolish propellant). Same principle as cars, planes, boats, etc.”

“@Rainmaker1973 The Starship stack is the largest flying object by far at ~5000 metric tons”

“@KTmBoyle I would have preferred to stick to cars & Mars, but it was necessary to safeguard civilization”

“@ZealotOcelot @ajtourville @SpaceX SpaceX will deliver ~90% of all of Earth’s mass to orbit this year. Once Starship is flying regularly, SpaceX will deliver >99% of mass to orbit, unless some other company creates a large, fully reusable rocket.”

“@blueskykites @WholeMarsBlog @DirtyTesLa @brandonee916 @DBurkland @BLKMDL3 @TacosandTeslas @TeslaJoy @tesla_raj @TesLatino @BeardedTesla Hydrogen is so dumb for cars”

“@ID_AA_Carmack Hydrogen in cars make zero sense. Its best case use is rockets and, even then, it loses to methane imo.”

“@WholeMarsBlog We do expect to make heavy use of LFP for medium range cars & stationary storage”

“@Erdayastronaut @dwesterster Trying have fewer parts, so strakes are unlikely. Some very counterintuitive CFD results in both hypersonic & subsonic regimes. Starship does controlled falling more than flying.”

“@teslaownersSV Yeah, wouldn’t be believable if it were fiction. A giant rocket that is the heaviest flying object ever made and it’s on a beach down by the river 😂”

“@bigwheelastro @ChainsawMelee @EvaFoxU @PPathole @leighalexander @TalulahRiley Yeah, but why? I’m working on sustainable energy cars & solar that help Earth and making life multiplanetary, to ensure its continuance, with SpaceX.”

“@DJSnM @Erdayastronaut @CharlesNOtrumps @rweb11742 Absolutely. Production/testing of rocket engines is over 90% of the problem. This is true in general. For cars, production is over 99% of the problem. That 1% inspiration is very important, but it’s less than 1% of the pain.”

“@nextspaceflight @MacTechGenius @blundell_apps I'm doing my best to recalibrate, but that is a fair criticism. However, if I wasn't inherently optimistic, I wouldn't be doing electric cars and rockets in the first place!”

“@Erdayastronaut @JHC2718 @MagnussonMani @vicvic21266 @flcnhvy @DJSnM @KevinKling12 @spaceXcentric Failure rate is actually both higher & lower than that, as the Falcon 9 design has changed almost completely several times. Currently flying version has no failures (may fate continue to be merciful), but older versions therefore have a higher failure rate.”

“RT @NASAAdmin: @MattGialich I love Dragonfly..An autonomous ~1,000-pound, radioisotope-powered octocopter flying for years in −290°F temps…”

“RT @wholemars: Global sales of gas cars peaked the year the Tesla Model 3 entered volume production Guess what happens next? https://t.co…”

“@cybrtrkguy @28delayslater @WhatsupFranks @SpaceX Jay *really* knows cars! Next-level.”

“@DJSnM @doug_ellison @dsfpspacefl1ght Under consideration. We’ve already stretched the upper stage once. Easiest part of the rocket to change. Fairing 2, flying soon, also has a slightly larger diameter. Could make fairing much longer if need be & will if BFR takes longer than expected.”

“The tower has caught the rocket!! https://t.co/CPXsHJBdUh”

“RT @cremieuxrecueil: Here's how fast the internet is using Starlink while flying over the Gulf of America. This stuff is incredible. https…”