The tweet archive.

“@SciGuySpace SpaceX will do orbital refilling several times next year with Starship V3. Because we are simply docking with ourself, this is a much easier problem than docking with the Space Station, which SpaceX already does several times a year.”

“@GokuAurelius @Erdayastronaut Roughly 800 to 1000 per year. That’s about what’s needed over ten years to create the fleet to build a self-sustaining city on Mars. City itself probably takes roughly 20 years, so hopefully it is built by ~2050.”

“@WholeMarsBlog Human overseen at first, then fully self-driving”

“@WholeMarsBlog Remarkable how few people realize this capability exists. Many think it is 5 years away! With public beta rollout in coming weeks, awareness should improve dramatically.”

“@WholeMarsBlog What has become absolutely clear is that the plethora of self-driving corner cases can only be solved with real-world optical intelligence. This is how humans designed the road system to work. Once you have that in silicon form, everything else is just icing on the cake.”

“@abhiyogi Slight chance of Starship flight to Mars crewed by Optimus in Nov/Dec next year. A lot needs to go right for that. More likely, first flight without humans in ~3.5 years, next flight ~5.5 years with humans. Mars city self-sustaining in 20 to 30 years.”

“@SirineAti Starship is in a different league. Orders of magnitude more mass to orbit than Falcon. Necessary for creating a self-sustaining city on Mars.”

“@WholeMarsBlog Tesla is steadily moving all NNs to 8 camera surround video. This will enable superhuman self-driving.”

“@peterrhague No, we’re going straight to Mars. The Moon is a distraction. Mass to orbit is the key metric, thereafter mass to Mars surface. The former needs to be in the megaton to orbit per year range to build a self-sustaining colony on Mars.”

“@wintonARK @SciGuySpace We’re still going to Mars and the timeframe for building a self-growing city there is still about the same at 20 to 30 years. It’s possible that revenue from lunar activities might actually accelerate Mars.”

“@annerajb @waitbutwhy Looks like a thin, flat, round UFO on a stick. Starlink Terminal has motors to self-adjust optimal angle to view sky. Instructions are simply: - Plug in socket - Point at sky These instructions work in either order. No training required.”

“@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.”

“@esherifftv True 😂 Biggest rocket of all time by far and the first design capable of colonizing Mars, but public awareness is ironically tiny.”

“RT @elonmusk: @WholeMarsBlog They will switch from claiming that Tesla self-driving is fake to Tesla self-driving is unfairly good”

“RT @SawyerMerritt: Tesla: Saving lives with Full Self-Driving Neuralink: Improving lives with game-changing brain chips SpaceX/Starlink:…”

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

“@WholeMarsBlog That part doesn’t matter. Synthetic data generation and accurate evaluation, ie recursive self-improvement, is more likely.”

“RT @DimaZeniuk: ELON MUSK: “We have a long way to go. It's about creating a self-sustaining city on Mars. The fundamental fork in the road…”

“@WholeMarsBlog Like @CyberpunkGame, but *with* self-driving haha”

“RT @Starlink: Starlink is designed for self-installation and connects to high-speed internet in minutes 🛰️🏡”

“@TheGigaCast @SawyerMerritt @farzyness @WholeMarsBlog @WOLF_Financial Within a few years, almost no one will want a car without full self-driving”

“RT @WholeMarsBlog: Somewhere along the way, quietly without anyone noticing, my Tesla became fully self-driving. I just dropped my friend…”

“RT @tetsuoai: SpaceX just officially shifted its #1 priority to building a self-growing city on the Moon. Not a base. Not an outpost. A cit…”

“@mirojurcevic @TashaARK This is a misperception. SpaceX developed & continues to use lidar for Dragon docking with @Space_Station. Just pointless imo for self-driving. If you’re going to do active photon generation, use an occlusion penetrating wavelength, like precision radar at ~4mm.”

“RT @MarioNawfal: STARLINK DISHES LAUGH IN THE FACE OF WINTER! Starlink doesn’t flinch in freezing weather or snowstorms! Its self-heating…”

“RT @DimaZeniuk: “If civilization collapses before Mars becomes self-sustaining, then nothing else matters. Human consciousness is gone.” —…”

“@Scobleizer @blevlabs It’s annoying that all these AI companies call themselves “labs” as though that’s a good thing. SpaceX makes more cutting edge breakthroughs than any aerospace university lab on Earth and doesn’t call itself a lab.”

“@flcnhvy The economics have to be something like that to build a self-sustaining city on Mars”

“RT @RepHaridopolos: President Trump said it himself: We’re going to lead humanity into space and plant the American flag on MARS! https:/…”

“RT @DimaZeniuk: “We need to transfer about 1,000,000 tons of cargo to make Mars self-sustainable.” — Elon Musk https://t.co/Wq0oxIGu2w”

“@SPEXcast @SciGuySpace What’s amazing is how non-linear the effect of gravity is. Starship can travel by itself from surface of Mars to surface of Earth, but requires massive booster on Earth with orbital refilling to get to Mars, which is ~38% of Earth gravity.”

“To be clear, SpaceX is supporting a student design competition for STEM, not trying to build Hyperloop itself. Other cos are doing latter.”

“RT @Starlink: Starlink provides reliable high-speed home internet and is designed for self-installation 🛰️🏠”

“@teslaownersSV @flcnhvy No, in the beginning, assuming you even make it there alive, Mars will be far more dangerous & difficult than Earth & take decades of hard labor to make self-sufficient. That’s the sales pitch. Want to go?”

“RT @WholeMarsBlog: With Self-Driving 14.1, your Tesla can now drive you into a mall parking garage and park, and then exit on its own. H…”

“RT @WholeMarsBlog: Tesla Self-Driving 14 is finally smooth! Here's my first drive with the latest build, 14.1.7. https://t.co/kk7TSqiZ5e”

“@shaunmmaguire It just in order to build a self-sustaining city on Mars”

“RT @EricJorgenson: If you ever feel sad about the future, try one of two things: - look up "SpaceX rocket landing itself" - or go ride in…”

“RT @EvaFox: Elon Musk: Starlink is going to do a tremendous amount of good “Starlink is good in and of itself. The Starlink system provide…”

“@PPathole @Erdayastronaut @dauqhx @universal_sci Mars is easier than the moon for propellant production. Could get going with only one ship, where the ship itself is the propellant plant. Needs to make ~2 tons/day.”

“RT @teslaownersSV: THE KEY BRANCHING POINT FOR HUMANITY: ELON MUSK ON WHY MARS MUST BE SELF-SUSTAINING Don’t get complacent—Elon just drop…”

“RT @MarioNawfal: ELON: WE HAVE TO BUILD A SELF-SUSTAINING CITY ON MARS AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE “The important thing is that we build a self…”

“@OranMaliphant @Erdayastronaut @AngelNDevil2 @MarkChica @FutureJurvetson @bluemoondance74 @SpaceX That’s about right, except no sensors. Tile itself is the sensor as it will partially ablate where too hot & have to be replaced.”

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

“RT @wholemars: I estimate that Tesla self-driving has already prevented more than 100 fatalities and well over 3,000 crashes. https://t.co/… null”

“@johnkrausphotos Incoming rocket & fairing probably visible, but landing itself is over the horizon”

“Starship rocket booster caught by tower https://t.co/aOQmSkt6YE”

“@benoitdenayer @navincho @katlinegrey Essentially, yes. Great engineering talent, but should focus on reusable rockets for purpose of a permanent human base on the moon and self-sustaining city on Mars.”

“Great energy from @SpaceX fans in Mexico https://t.co/R695MUaicc”

“Falcon going to orbit as seen from ocean https://t.co/Dclhju24ya”