“At @SpaceX Texas with engineering team getting ready to fire new Raptor rocket engine https://t.co/ACFM8AtY8w”
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15 years of Elon, fully searchable. The production archive uses Supabase as the source of truth, with 94,952 indexed tweets available in development as a full-archive fallback and a curated annotation layer for context, theory, and how major claims aged.
“@WholeMarsBlog No further TSLA sales planned after today”
“@WholeMarsBlog Earth is almost entirely solar-powered already. Without the sun, we’d just be a dark ice ball with some chemotrophic bacteria.”
“@DefiantLs If you add up all the government funding Tesla and SpaceX have ever received, it is only about 1% of the combined value of the companies. In contrast, if you do that with US and European major aerospace companies, the government money they have received *exceeds* 100% of their… https://t.co/P57hWzKKLL https://x.com/i/web/status/2021663314716373227”
“@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.”
“Btw, SpaceX is no longer planning to upgrade Falcon 9 second stage for reusability. Accelerating BFR instead. New design is very exciting! Delightfully counter-intuitive.”
“@SpaceX Fly my pretties, fly …”
“First two Starlink demo satellites, called Tintin A & B, deployed and communicating to Earth stations https://t.co/TfI53wHEtz”
“@teslaownersSV The Iron Man statue was given to SpaceX because part of Iron Man 2 was filmed in the rocket factory”
“@PPathole Most people have no idea Starship exists or how large this beast is! Body diameter (9m or 30 ft) is bigger than a 747 or A380. Starship thrust & mass are more than double Saturn V moon rocket. Making life multiplanetary means massive rockets. Got to be done.”
“@johnkrausphotos An implausible rocket on the beach”
“Another batch of Starlinks in orbit, 7 hours after the astronaut launch”
“@ProTheDoge Lots of people I talked to on the production lines at Tesla or building rockets at SpaceX own Doge. They aren’t financial experts or Silicon Valley technologists. That’s why I decided to support Doge – it felt like the people’s crypto.”
“SpaceX is accelerating rapidly. When Starship is launching several times a day in a few years, SpaceX will be ~99% of all Earth payload mass to orbit, even if the others triple their current launch rate. [@FutureJurvetson] 🚀 T͢h͢e͢ ͢Q͢3͢ ͢L͢a͢u͢n͢c͢h͢ ͢R͢e͢p͢o͢r͢t͢ ͢j͢u͢s͢t͢ ͢c͢a͢m͢e͢ ͢o͢u͢t͢🚀 For kg launched to orbit, SpaceX has 97% share for the U.S. and 83% globally. The eight Chinese launchers add up to 8.6%. Looking into the graph's magnifying box, IDF just nudged past Rocket Lab. https://x.com/i/web/status/1994495568291532883”
“True [@ApoStructura] There is this recurring narrative that SpaceX needs government funding to survive. Not only does SpaceX not rely on government contracts for the majority of it’s revenue, it’s actually saved the US government Billions of dollars by being far cheaper than the competition.”
“Was just up in the booster propulsion section. Damage appears to be minor, but we need to inspect all the engines. Best to do this in the high bay.”
“@SciGuySpace Provided there is no serious launch anomaly, SpaceX will deliver 80% of Earth’s payload to orbit this year. Not counting Starship.”
“Falcon about to launch Dragon to @Space_Station https://t.co/bDd3GxQXMC http://SpaceX.com”
“@PPathole @WholeMarsBlog The San Francisco office of the SEC were shameless puppets of Wall St shortseller sharks, while doing nothing to protect actual shareholders. That is why I lost all respect for them.”
“@WholeMarsBlog Future wars are all about the drones. Human crews of planes or tanks have no chance. One exception: a purely analog, human-controlled vehicle is far more resilient to EMF weapons.”
“@WholeMarsBlog Serious allegations deserve serious responses 🧐”
“Get the Performance terminal from @Starlink! [@Starlink] Starlink’s most rugged kit yet, Performance offers reliable high-speed internet (400+ Mbps download speeds) in the most extreme and remote environments. Aluminum enclosure, IP69K waterproof rating, advanced power supply with AC/DC, and more → http://starlink.com/performance”
“@ajtourville @Starlink After thinking it through, SpaceX Starlink will provide emergency services access for mobile phones for people in distress for free. This applies worldwide, subject to approval by country governments. Can’t have a situation where someone dies because they forgot or were unable…”
“Renaming BFR to Starship”
“SpaceX - Starship's Tenth Flight Test https://t.co/nclVnLjNmC https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-10”
“@farzyness The priority shift is because I’m worried that a natural or manmade catastrophe stops the resupply ships coming from Earth, causing the colony to die out. We can make the Moon city self-growing in less than 10 years, but Mars will take 20+ years due to the 26 month iteration… https://t.co/stiaf8Tkpu https://x.com/i/web/status/2020910733697954282”
“@WholeMarsBlog Agreed”
“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”
“If things go well, Falcon will launch about once a week on average in 2022, delivering ~2/3 of all Earth payload to orbit”
“@lexfridman They froze Starlink’s bank accounts too, despite Starlink being a separate company with different shareholders and having broken no laws and given no warning.”
“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”
“@WholeMarsBlog Tesla will be great long-term, but doesn’t control macroeconomic tides”
“Data from 3 engine Starship static fire this morning looks good. Proceeding with nosecone mate.”
“@FonsDK @SpaceX Probably more”
“@SpaceX Major launchpad upgrades should be complete in about a month, then another month of rocket testing on pad, then flight 2 of Starship”
“Anyone who’s interested in working on cutting edge manufacturing — designing & building the machine that makes the machine — please consider working at Tesla or SpaceX. We’re gonna take this to a whole new level!”
“@BarackObama @NASA @SpaceX @Commercial_Crew Thank you on behalf of the people of SpaceX!”
“@WholeMarsBlog Macro conditions are difficult: energy in Europe, real estate in China & crazy Fed rates in USA”
“@SenBillNelson @NASA @SpaceX Much appreciated, SpaceX will not let NASA down!”
“Putting together SpaceX rocket landing blooper reel. We messed up a lot before it finally worked, but there's some epic explosion footage …”
“@WholeMarsBlog We have a real shot at late February. March launch attempt appears highly likely.”
“Dragon returning from orbit”
“@PPathole @SpaceX @Tesla True. Ancient times … Had to flip CPU registers explicitly, as computer was so slow.”
“@TheZvi Because everyone’s job is safety. It’s not some fake department with no power to assuage the concerns of outsiders. Tesla has no safety team and is the safest car. SpaceX has no safety team and has the safest rocket. Dragon is what NASA trusts most to fly astronauts.”
“@imPenny2x Slight possibility of Mars”
“@realDonaldTrump @SpaceX @NASA Thank you on behalf of SpaceX. An exciting future lies ahead!”
“Starship Super Heavy with 35 Raptors”
“@WholeMarsBlog Most people still have no idea. FSD is the most important software release of any kind in a very long time.”
“@WholeMarsBlog Exactly”
