The tweet archive.

“@SmokeAwayyy With booster ultimately flying up to ~20 times per day & ship flying up to ~5 times per day. Useful load to Mars is ~150 metric tons, but requires ~5 orbital refilling tanker flights. Target: >1 megaton of cargo & people delivered to Mars, so that it becomes self-sustaining.”

“True [@HCGNYC] @WR4NYGov The word 'funding' in and of itself is disingenuous. SpaceX bids for service contracts. They typically have offered the most compelling cost and delivery and yet our feckless Gov still awards contracts to SpaceX competitors. Tesla is the most American made autos, will soon also…)”

“Four Falcon Heavy flights later this year by an incredible team at SpaceX https://t.co/WUQ72lKZPe https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sX1Y2JMK6g8”

“The stars in Starship’s mirrored hull reflected”

“@WholeMarsBlog Earth is almost entirely solar-powered already. Without the sun, we’d just be a dark ice ball with some chemotrophic bacteria.”

“@paulg The mass & difficulty required to build a space habitat like that is extreme. Far better to have a base on the moon & city on Mars.”

“One square mile on the surface receives ~2.5 Gigawatts of solar energy. That’s Gigawatts with a “G”. It’s ~30% higher in space. The Starlink global satellite network is entirely solar/battery powered. Factoring in solar panel efficiency (25%), packing density (80%) and usable…”

“@Teslarati @JohnnaCrider1 Starship, with its voluminous cargo bay, will enable incredible space telescopes for astronomy”

“True [@aaronburnett] Prediction: FSD + Starlink will meaningfully contribution to a measurable increase in nomadic lifestyle and decrease in urbanization in the US within 5 years. 10 years max Our country is absolutely beautiful and the average population density is <50 people per square km. Wide”

“Starlink is a total gamechanger [@MarioNawfal] STARLINK TURNS AIRPLANE WIFI FROM USELESS TO UNREAL Airline Wi Fi used to mean loading screens and rage quitting. Starlink just changed the rules at 35,000 feet. * Satellite powered internet delivers fast, low latency connection gate to gate, not just cruising altitude *… https://x.com/i/web/status/2003767614963658807”

“@WholeMarsBlog I’m worried that Twitter has a disincentive to reduce spam, as it reduces perceived daily users”

“@SpaceX Unfortunately, launch is called off for today, as an aircraft entered the “keep out zone”, which is unreasonably gigantic. There is simply no way that humanity can become a spacefaring civilization without major regulatory reform. The current regulatory system is broken.”

“Definitely [@aaronburnett] Cathie discussing SpaceX convergence on orbital data centers and reusable rockets with Peter and friends. Ark and team deserve a ton of credit for not only recognizing that last year was the right time to begin diving deep into SpaceX modeling, but also for being so generous with… https://x.com/i/web/status/2017690607318405419”

“Honored to work with amazing teams at SpaceX & Tesla!”

“@WholeMarsBlog I stand by my prediction that, if Tesla executes extremely well over the next 5 years, that the long term value could exceed Apple and Aramco combined”

“@RobertMSterling @WholeMarsBlog @nytimes Pretty much only time I see NYT articles is when they’re mentioned here. Their readership, especially user-minutes per day, is tiny compared to this platform.”

“Starship 9m test tank made 7.5 bar at room temp! Small leak at a weld doubler. Will be repaired & retested at cryo. https://t.co/Bz3lrwkYRU”

“@WholeMarsBlog @Herbert_Diess Diess deserves a lot of credit for moving VW rapidly towards electrification. They’re lucky to have him.”

“@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.”

“Will be at SXSW Sat/Sun with Jonah & Lisa, who created Westworld. Jonah made an incredible short reel of Falcon Heavy & Starman. Releases tmrw aft.”

“Long exposure of rocket ascent, reentry from space and landing burn. (Credit @johnkrausphotos) https://t.co/X24k3han8M https://www.instagram.com/p/BdrZtc5AhB3/”

“This is significantly more than any country has launched with their entire rocket fleet in a year. Second is peak Soviet Union at ~500 tons. For a present day comparison, the rest of the world has delivered ~250 tons to orbit so far this year, mostly by China.”

“Mars City Opposite of Earth. Dawn and dusk sky are blue on Mars and day sky is red. https://t.co/XHcZIdgqnb https://www.instagram.com/p/BZm_FXPg6YZ/”

“@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.”

“@flcnhvy @SpaceX Starlink terminal has motors to self-orient for optimal view angle. No expert installer required. Just plug in & give it a clear view of the sky. Can be in garden, on roof, table, pretty much anywhere, so long as it has a wide view of the sky.”

“@Tesmanian_com Sanjay deserves a lot of credit for making X/PayPal succeed. Now helping SpaceX serve rural communities in India. Much respect.”

“@NewsfromScience @ScienceVisuals Starship will be an incredible enabler for science. Full reusability & high production rate drive several orders of magnitude improvement in $/kg to orbit & beyond. Next gen Starlink constellation is primary user of this rocket, so science doesn’t need to cover fixed cost.”

“@EvaFoxU Falcon is powered by 9 merkins!”

“@WholeMarsBlog My prediction is that if Kamala wins, the Dems will import and legalize enough migrants to ensure a permanent one-party rule that is increasingly socialist (to a confiscatory level) and repressive. Everywhere will be California, but worse. The one thing that gives California…”

“@SpaceX Fairing halves recovered https://t.co/F82LE8JlLJ”

“@realrobcopeland @SpaceX Totally false. Buried in this incredibly misleading WSJ article is the actual statement from Thiel’s Founder’s Fund: “we have no concerns whatsoever.””

“To be clear, I mean solar+batteries, not just solar. The entire Starlink constellation of over 7000 satellites, which go through Earth shadow many times per day, are just powered by solar+batteries. And Earth is just a giant satellite.”

“@LinkN01 He got the fuel impact calculation wrong by a factor of 10 and refuses to look either at physics-based calculations or measured fuel usage for 737s that fly Starlink. Fire this imbecile.”

“RT @VigilantFox: NEW: AG Pam Bondi says Rep. Jasmine Crockett could be CENSURED by Congress after calling for Elon Musk to be “taken down”…”

“@vm_one1 @waEMD @SpaceX We will probably IPO Starlink, but only several years in the future when revenue growth is smooth & predictable. Public market does *not* like erratic cash flow haha. I’m a huge fan of small retail investors. Will make sure they get top priority. You can hold me to it.”

“This is a dicey test, as the Starlink antenna is partially obscured by trees, so latency & jitters will be higher, as the terminal tries to connect with satellites further away that are not obscured”

“@WholeMarsBlog We need to predict what pedestrians will do based on their behavior, including limb angle & direction of sight. FSD currently sees all pedestrians as cuboids, so is overly cautious. Also, diffusion seems to be more compute-efficient than transformers for vision.”

“Dragon 2 is designed to be able to land anywhere in the solar system. Red Dragon Mars mission is the first test flight.”

“@bindureddy Google will win the AI race in the West, China on Earth and SpaceX in space”

“@Erdayastronaut @SpaceX Hadn’t showered in several days. We are going hardcore with Starbase Surge.”

“@archillect Red sky of Mars is Blue at dawn & dusk”

“@somefoundersalt Exactly. Yglesias is incredibly deceptive and lacks any journalistic integrity. There is nothing monopolistic about rockets, any more than there is about aircraft. Just a matter of making the best product.”

“@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.”

“RT @SpaceX: SpaceX has acquired xAI, forming one of the most ambitious, vertically integrated innovation engines on (and off) Earth → https…”

“@ID_AA_Carmack I have great admiration for John’s engineering ability! What he did with Armadillo was incredible. I’ve tried to convince him many times to join SpaceX, but he has always declined (sigh).”

“@SpaceX Important to note that the induced mass (mass required by a given engine design that is not the engine itself) of Raptor 3, while far better than Raptor 2, still has a lot of room for improvement. Thrust will exceed 300 tons with Raptor 3.x (thrust/mass>200), enabling 10,000…”

“@BLKMDL3 @RationalEtienne @Adamklotz_ Once we can predict cash flow reasonably well, Starlink will IPO”

“@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.”

“@wholemars I must give @AnthropicAI credit here: Opus 4.5 is outstanding. They are doing particularly excellent work at the pretraining level. However, Grok wins when applied to logic (software is just logic at scale) that isn’t in the Opus pretraining. For example, the Tesla chip design… https://t.co/JkpPOYGJIN https://x.com/i/web/status/1998876157991952622”

“@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.”