The tweet archive.

“@WholeMarsBlog Initial production will be 4 motor variant, with independent, ultra fast response torque control of each wheel”

“Construction of Starship orbital launch pad at the Cape has begun”

“@arstechnica @SciGuySpace Starship will enable a quantum leap in deep space & planetary science”

“@Tesmanian_com The magnitude of the Starship program is not widely appreciated. It is designed to extend life to Mars (and the moon), which requires ~1000 times more payload to orbit than all current Earth rockets combined.”

“@Tesmanian_com If a severe global recession were to dry up capital availability / liquidity while SpaceX was losing billions on Starlink & Starship, then bankruptcy, while still unlikely, is not impossible. GM & Chrysler went BK last recession. “Only the paranoid survive.” – Grove”

“@GerberKawasaki We had to shift some Starlink satellite orbits to reduce probability of collision. Not great, but not terrible either. Station & Dragon have micrometeorite shields (ultra high velocity impact absorption), but EVA suits do not, hence higher risk for spacewalk.”

“@smartass505 @ZainS180 @VikingRocket @WholeMarsBlog Oh man, this year has been such a supply chain nightmare & it’s not over! I will provide an updated product roadmap on next earnings call.”

“@ZainS180 @VikingRocket @WholeMarsBlog Cybertruck will reach far into a post-apocalyptic future & bring that technology to now”

“@ZainS180 @VikingRocket @WholeMarsBlog Cybertruck is intentionally an insane technology bandwagon”

“@VikingRocket @WholeMarsBlog Variable gain (steer by wire) yoke would be ideal …”

“@WholeMarsBlog Acid test for new interface is use it for 2 weeks & see if you still want old version. After using yoke for few weeks, I didn’t want wheel.”

“@WholeMarsBlog Yoke allows unobstructed view of the screen”

“@WholeMarsBlog The most ironic outcome is the most likely”

“@WholeMarsBlog Figuratively & literally”

“@timetravelart Maybe drive an upright Falcon 9 past the White House flying a giant Stars & Stripes with a marching band playing “I can see clearly now”?”

“@PPathole @SpaceX That’s our initial interstage design that we scrapped”

“@existentialcoms Combined Tesla+SpaceX market cap is now over $1.2T, which means “$4.9B” is less than 0.4% of combined company value”

“@GailAlfarATX @SpaceX @RGVaerialphotos @cnunezimages @kanyewest @SciGuySpace @Erdayastronaut @dogecoin @BillyM2k @austinbarnard45 @NASA Absolutely!”

“@PPathole @Teslarati @13ericralph31 If we are able to make life self-sustaining on Mars, we will have passed one of the greatest filters. That then sets us up to become interstellar. Earth is ~4.5B years old, but life is still not multiplanetary and it is extremely uncertain how much time is left to become so.”

“@WholeMarsBlog Exactly (sigh)”

“@flcnhvy @WholeMarsBlog It can simulate anywhere, but we need to focus on one region until FSD is out of beta, then expand geographically to have betas in other countries. Canada is not a lot different from US, but different enough.”

“@WholeMarsBlog High-performance code is in C using our own compiler to maximize frame rate. We use Python with custom libraries for fast prototyping, then convert to C for fast execution. New software is run against real-world video & our world simulator to evaluate performance, then QA.”

“@WholeMarsBlog Our NNs didn’t have any temporal & spatial memory or surround video auto-labeling back then – everything was knitted together in C++ from single frames with manual labeling. Still much to improve.”

“@WholeMarsBlog I was able to do several zero takeover drives around Austin last night using random map pin drops (no Tesla has ever done these routes)”

“@engineers_feed Hell of a rocket! Probably would have succeeded if Korolev had not died. Hopefully, Starship is more fortunate.”

“@WholeMarsBlog True”

“@ErcXspace @NASASpaceflight @SpaceX Long-term, ship would land on tower arms, like booster”

“@ErcXspace @NASASpaceflight @SpaceX Unlikely for early ships to splashdown intact. Getting to orbit at all on first try would be a major win.”

“@BillyM2k @WholeMarsBlog 🤣”

“@WholeMarsBlog Serious allegations deserve serious responses 🧐”

“@StarshipFairing We are on the wrong planet for SSTO. On Mars, it is thankfully easy.”

“@StarshipFairing @Phrankensteyn @SpaceX @smvllstvrs @Erdayastronaut @austinbarnard45 @NASASpaceflight @spacex360 @ErcXspace If Earth’s gravity was even 10% lower, I’d be all for single stage to orbit”

“@Teslarati @SpaceX @RDAnglePhoto I love these shots”

“@SpaceXMR .@NASAWatch Keith, is this about right?”

“@SpaceXMR Tragically, it is not clear that the defense contractors can get to the moon for any amount of money. More than $200B has been spent on development of new US crewed space transport systems over past ~40 years, but only Dragon is flying. Development cost to NASA was <$2B.”

“@StarshipGazer This launch mount is not easy to build”

“@WholeMarsBlog 🤣🤣”

“@SpaceXMR 🤣”

“@mterrace @Investor421 @WholeMarsBlog @28delayslater Is this real?”

“@astrodeven @SpaceX 👍”

“Talked about Starship with National Academies Space Studies Board https://t.co/wMSUQYTNJg https://youtu.be/rLydXZOo4eA”

“@WholeMarsBlog Exactly”

“@heydave7 @WholeMarsBlog A careful observer would note that my (low basis) share sale rate significantly exceeds my 10b (high basis) option exercise rate, thus closer to tax maximization than minimization.”

“@GailAlfarATX @JohnnaCrider1 @WholeMarsBlog @TeslaOwnersEBay @RationalEtienne @EvaFoxU @Boxabl I’ve actually been living in a ~$50k house in south Texas for past 2 years, not Boxabl (cool product tho). Feels more homey to live in a small house.”

“@SpaceXMR Such a beautiful day to launch”

“@_rykllan @SpaceX @NASASpaceflight @FelixSchlang @MarcusHouse @bluemoondance74 The rocket fleet grows”

“@SpaceIntellige3 @SpaceX @SpaceXStarlink @nkknspace @HomemDoEspacoBr @InfographicTony @cnunezimages @spacex360 Should work everywhere for global maritime by roughly middle of next year (enough sats with laser links launched). Until then, it will be patchy when far from land.”

“@SpaceIntellige3 @SpaceX @SpaceXStarlink @nkknspace @HomemDoEspacoBr @InfographicTony @cnunezimages @spacex360 Inter-satellite laser communications means Starlink can carry data at speed of light in vacuum all around Earth before touching ground. Over time, some amount of communication can simply be from one user terminal to another without touching the Internet.”

“@teslaownersSV @24_7TeslaNews @SpaceX No guarantees, but maybe next month. Requires quite a lot of incremental testing & code tweaks for different road system in Canada.”

“@24_7TeslaNews @teslaownersSV @SpaceX Hoping to start releasing to 98 scores with V10.5 in about 10 days”