“@lexfridman In theory, it saves landing leg mass & enables immediate reflight of an otherwise unwieldy, giant rocket”
The tweet archive.
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.
“1469 Starlink satellites active 272 moving to operational orbits Laser links activate soon”
“Starship launch & catch tower https://t.co/5mLIQwwu0k”
“@WholeMarsBlog It was a mistake to try to use the Elise. In the end, only ~5% of the Elise parts ended up being used. Tesla Roadster is a totally different car.”
“Starlinks with “lasers” deployed to orbit https://t.co/Y1eg9gl7sJ”
“@MiFSDBetaTester @WholeMarsBlog 🤣”
“@GailAlfarATX @SawyerMerritt Wow, working on this problem has soaked up a lot of my time & brain cycles over the past ~7 years! This and Starship engines are currently the two hardest problems.”
“@SpaceXMR 🤣”
“@DimaZeniuk @klwtts @TeslaClubNorway @WholeMarsBlog @SawyerMerritt @1stMarsColonist @daelmor @Kristennetten @28delayslater @Inelonwetrust__ @billhuang688 @EvaFoxU @GailAlfarATX As goes Norway, so goes the world. That said, still a long way to go to replace the fleet of combustion vehicles on the road.”
“@WholeMarsBlog And many other things”
“@WholeMarsBlog Tesla is technically a car like an iPhone is technically a phone”
“@WholeMarsBlog We’re aiming for a significant improvement for owners outside the US around March, depending on regulatory approvals”
“@WholeMarsBlog This assumes completion of the 10b sales”
“@teslatidbits @WholeMarsBlog @DanCrenshawTX A strong bias towards consumption tax makes sense”
“@harald_murphy @SpaceX @Tesla @Jays200 A lot of improvement still coming just from software updates to satellites & terminals”
“@Erdayastronaut I talked about Falcon 9 & Heavy for over a decade!”
“@PPathole @SpaceX Absolutely”
“100th SpaceX rocket landing was today”
“@BillyM2k With Starlink, you could stream video & play online games”
“🤣🤣 True. Ask your airline for Starlink!”
“@omarsar0 👍”
“@AdamCuker @SpaceX All Raptor 2 tests going forward”
“@NASASpaceflight Still aiming for booster 4 & Ship 20 for first orbital test flight (this is pure coincidence!)”
“@NASASpaceflight Yup. Next booster will have 33 Raptor 2 engines, with 13 steering. Ship is being upgraded to 9 engines (3 sea-level gimbaling, 6 vacuum fixed) with increased propellant load.”
“@StianWalgermo @TeslaCharging @Tesla @WholeMarsBlog @TeslaClubNorway Trondheim sounds cool”
“@WholeMarsBlog I came to the US with no money & graduated with over $100k in debt, despite scholarships & working 2 jobs while at school”
“@ScottAdamsSays @johniadarola @SenWarren I love Dilbert! Use it all the time to illustrate that we’re doing something wrong at Tesla/SpaceX if it could be a Dilbert cartoon irl. This happens more often than I’d like (sigh).”
“Will also be important for Mars”
“SpaceX is starting a program to take CO2 out of atmosphere & turn it into rocket fuel. Please join if interested.”
“@WholeMarsBlog Penalizing sustainable energy is insane”
“@WholeMarsBlog Should arguably be called 11”
“@WholeMarsBlog 10.7 next week is great”
“Mars & Cars”
“Wow, only three weeks to 2022! What will 2032 will be like? Seems so futuristic! Will we be on Mars?”
“@BallAerospace @NASA_Marshall @NASA @SpaceX Congrats!”
“@_rykllan @SpaceX @FelixSchlang @MarcusHouse @Erdayastronaut @bluemoondance74 @NextHorizonsSF Rocket fleets grows”
“@cnunezimages @SpaceX @SpaceIntellige3 💯”
“@jessica_kirsh @SpaceX Booster production is currently ahead of engine production”
“@tobyliiiiiiiiii @RGVaerialphotos @SpaceX Hopefully, this month, no later than next”
“@RGVaerialphotos @SpaceX Progress”
“@WholeMarsBlog 🤣”
“@muratpak My car is currently orbiting Mars”
“Starships to ♥️ Mars ♥️”
“@NASASpaceflight 39A is hallowed spaceflight ground – no place more deserving of a Starship launch pad! Will have similar, but improved, ground systems & tower to Starbase.”
“@teslaownersSV @WholeMarsBlog It releases internally today, then rolls out to external beta in a few days if no significant issues are found”
“@jhall @WholeMarsBlog But yes”
“@jhall @WholeMarsBlog Product roadmap update on next earnings call”
“@teslaownersSV @WholeMarsBlog Yes”
“@marv63804322 @WholeMarsBlog Will have both front & rear wheel steer, so not just like a tank – it can drive diagonally like a crab”
“@WholeMarsBlog “Insane technology bandwagon””
