“Getting ready for flight of orbit-class Starship design”
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“@wholemars Inevitable”
“@WholeMarsBlog I had too many bottles of Teslaquila!”
“@wapodavenport 16 flights is extremely unlikely. Starship payload to orbit is ~150 tons , so max of 8 to fill 1200 ton tanks of lunar Starship. Without flaps & heat shield, Starship is much lighter. Lunar landing legs don’t add much (1/6 gravity). May only need 1/2 full, ie 4 tanker flights.”
“@WholeMarsBlog This will become very important over time”
“@muratpak My car is currently orbiting Mars”
“@WholeMarsBlog I just set it up right now and am writing this post through space. Took less than 5 mins. Easily carried in a backpack. This product will change the world.”
“@WholeMarsBlog 11.4.1 is promising”
“@archillect Red sky of Mars is Blue at dawn & dusk”
“@newscientist ... say scientists — among other insights gained — after a large vat of LSD overturned in the lab. Also discovered: humans are just sentient sponges, drywall tastes like a marshmallow and gravity is real. The last point remains heavily debated.”
“@WholeMarsBlog @aelluswamy About 2 weeks”
“@WholeMarsBlog Oh the irony 🤣🤣”
“@WholeMarsBlog It’s coming!”
“@TeslaHype @WholeMarsBlog Yeah, the character assassination attacks have reached a new level this year, but the articles are all nothing-burgers. I work crazy hours, so there just isn’t much time for shenanigans. None of the key people involved in these alleged wrongdoings were even interviewed!”
“@IheartTesla @alex_avoigt @mike_zimon @WholeMarsBlog döner kebab”
“@kulpability Don’t need the cash. Devoting myself to Mars and Earth. Possession just weigh you down.”
“@greg16676935420 @WholeMarsBlog 🤣”
“@DimaZeniuk It’s from Asimov’s Foundation. But I’m open to other ideas. Ultimately, it will be up to the people of Mars to decide.”
“Colonizing Mars (thanks Prof Hubbard for creating this from my talk). Major changes to the plan coming soon. https://t.co/s59qMHUj5O http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/space.2017.29009.emu”
“Starship Hopper will do vertical flight tests similar to the Falcon 9 Hopper https://t.co/5dCrGFqymR http://youtu.be/NoxiK7K28PU”
“@WholeMarsBlog Yeah”
“@DavidSHolz @xenocosmography And how are we supposed to reach Mars if America goes de facto bankrupt?”
“@WholeMarsBlog Exactly”
“@itsALLrisky And that’s just for Earth! Mars has zero human population. We need a lot of people to become a multiplanet civilization.”
“@WholeMarsBlog Three significant improvements to FSD will roll out roughly every two weeks. Should be really shining bright by late April or early May.”
“@stillgray @teslaownersSV @WholeMarsBlog Absolutely”
“@Truthful_ast Seems like I should explain what the gameplan is for getting to Mars in more detail. Any individual launch is not very important. What matters is the expected date when Mars becomes a self-sustaining civilization.”
“@WholeMarsBlog The 3 years of random drug testing was just because of one semi-puff during a @JoeRogan podcast!”
“@WholeMarsBlog Markoff is lying”
“@WholeMarsBlog This is the right release to go wide”
“@thesheetztweetz @QuiltyAnalytics First Starship orbital flight will be with Raptor 2 engines, as they are much more capable & reliable. 230 ton or ~500k lb thrust at sea level. We’ll have 39 flightworthy engines built by next month, then another month to integrate, so hopefully May for orbital flight test.”
“@BLKMDL3 @S3XYstarship @IWill_Travel @AOC Yes, but this is actually a good thing. It has been raining money on fools for too long. Some bankruptcies need to happen. Also, all the Covid stay-at-home stuff has tricked people into thinking that you don’t actually need to work hard. Rude awakening inbound!”
“@WholeMarsBlog Nope”
“@WholeMarsBlog 🤣🤣”
“@WholeMarsBlog You don’t even need to touch the shifter in new S. Auto detect direction will come as an optional setting to all cars with FSD.”
“@unusual_whales Not me. I will live and die in America. (Some possibility of dying on Mars, hopefully not on impact)”
“@WR4NYGov @garyblack00 @Tesla @WholeMarsBlog 🤣🤣 exactly”
“@WholeMarsBlog This assumes completion of the 10b sales”
“@WholeMarsBlog Given all that is in V11, it will take a few weeks to expand the beta, then another few weeks to go wide release to US & Canada”
“@AJamesMcCarthy @WholeMarsBlog Correct. Truly shameful of the media to dredge up an injury from two years ago due to a simple industrial Kuka robot arm (found in all factories) and imply that it is due to Optimus now.”
“@WholeMarsBlog They are great”
“@WholeMarsBlog They are actually much more than point releases, but the team is reserving 11.420 for the big one”
“@WholeMarsBlog Some easy to fix bugs addressed in 11.4.2 that starts rolling out this weekend. Will address excess conservatism with narrow roads & with lane changes in heavy traffic.”
“@Erdayastronaut Detanking & inspections now. Good progress towards our “Hop in & go to Mars!” goal.”
“@WholeMarsBlog @ValerianIlies People still don’t get it”
“Btw, not saying we *should* nuke Mars -- just layin' out a few options …”
“@elektrotimmy @Tesla @tesla_europe @MartinViecha @aelluswamy @WholeMarsBlog @jchybow @RealDanODowd We fixed the remaining 2%”
“@RenataKonkoly Maybe we should make an actual Starship model that dispenses pez for our merch store”
“@WholeMarsBlog Big improvement in high speed cross-traffic velocity NN coming next month”
“@WholeMarsBlog Exactly (sigh)”
