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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.

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Aug 31, 2017

Putting together SpaceX rocket landing blooper reel. We messed up a lot before it finally worked, but there's some epic explosion footage …

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Aug 31, 2017

@GigarothPack Not a bad idea. For sure, it makes sense to test AI for safety in some kind of open world / sandbox virtual world.

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Aug 31, 2017

@DMC_Ryan In about six months or so. Linked to dual motor config.

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Aug 31, 2017

We took the SpaceX/Tesla Hyperloop pusher pod for a spin by itself a few days ago to see what it… https://t.co/4hr1yN37he https://www.instagram.com/p/BYckipugds5/

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Aug 31, 2017

@eKanishka @ChaseBlackmon1 @boringcompany Tunnels are sealed to 5 atmospheres of water & gas pressure. Just need walls around the apertures.

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Aug 30, 2017

@ChaseBlackmon1 @boringcompany Not sure, but probably

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Aug 30, 2017

@nickg_uk @Model3Owners Feature coming soon

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Aug 30, 2017

@AdolfOosthuizen They're so real. Anyone going to that much trouble must really care. I'd gladly follow their commands, but they're so friggin obtuse …

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Aug 30, 2017

@GraduateMonkey That's pretty much why we did it

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Aug 29, 2017

Worth reading Life 3.0 by @Tegmark. AI will be the best or worst thing ever for humanity, so let’s get it right. https://t.co/lT0uMH3ujZ https://www.amazon.com/Life-3-0-Being-Artificial-Intelligence/dp/1101946598

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Aug 28, 2017

@bryanclark Hyperloop (near) vacuum tube runs parallel to SpaceX on Jack Northrop Blvd. It is 0.8 miles long and just under 6 ft in diameter.

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Aug 28, 2017

@ItchGrid Brakes

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Aug 28, 2017

@newscientist https://t.co/mA8ZgutrbE https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DNkKCFaqib8

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Aug 28, 2017

Will run the SpaceX pusher sled later this week and see what it can do

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Aug 28, 2017

@newscientist Moon base alpha (cheesy show, but I loved it) plus Mars

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Aug 28, 2017

@bfslandinglegs @RichardFPenn @John_Gardi Not that this is remotely equiv to man on the moon, but there is a world of difference between talking about some random idea and doing it

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Aug 28, 2017

@bfslandinglegs @RichardFPenn @John_Gardi Actually, no, his architecture was different. Also, thinking of going to the moon and actually going to the moon are not the same thing.

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Aug 28, 2017

Hyperloop pod run by team WARR https://t.co/ntaMsoxkZE

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Aug 28, 2017

@Excellion @boringcompany @OpenAI The AI could def find us there, but maybe it won't care

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Aug 28, 2017

A Model S in The Boring Company tunnel being dug under Los Angeles (starting in Hawthorne) https://t.co/tQVD5KkIvb https://www.instagram.com/p/BYUeGjmAh8N/

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Aug 28, 2017

@PiPrefer Yes, it is

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Aug 28, 2017

@JRoque250 @Freewill404 @cbotnyse A tiny one

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Aug 28, 2017

Btw, high accel only needed because tube is short. For passenger transport, this can be spread over 20+ miles, so no spilt drinks.

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Aug 28, 2017

@Freewill404 @cbotnyse No such thing as true vacuum, so actually yes

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Aug 28, 2017

@cbotnyse Call it ~800mph

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Aug 28, 2017

Might be possible to go supersonic in our test Hyperloop tube, even though it's only 0.8 miles long. Very high accel/decel needed …

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Aug 28, 2017

Congratulations to WARR team from Tech Univ Munich for winning 2nd @Hyperloop competition! Peak speed of 324 km/h, which is over 200 mph!!

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Aug 28, 2017

Just arrived at the @Hyperloop competition final. Student teams have amazing talent!

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Aug 28, 2017

@OfficeOfOMAR @HyperloopOne I hope they and any others trying to advance transport technology succeed

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Aug 28, 2017

@SmileSimplify @Vita_Berlin @c12olivas Exactly. Wouldn't let anyone invest more than a token amount in early rounds of SpaceX and Tesla, as the probability of failure was >90%.

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Aug 28, 2017

https://t.co/IypZm9FdQk https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/aug/07/fossil-fuel-subsidies-are-a-staggering-5-tn-per-year

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Aug 28, 2017

@SU3UR3ANLegend Sorry! Coming next year, along with completing the Trans-Canada Highway and interconnecting US, Mexico and Central America.

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Aug 28, 2017

@bobbyblackstock @c12olivas Funny thing is, whenever I suggest all companies go to zero incentives, room gets very quiet. That's because others get a lot more than us.

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Aug 28, 2017

@bobbyblackstock @c12olivas Literally zero incentive laws were put into place by my companies. Zero. Others put them in place. Happy to go to zero incentives for all.

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Aug 27, 2017

@c12olivas I'm not an investor. Just believe in putting money into my own companies. Don't think the OPM approach is right.

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Aug 27, 2017

@SmileSimplify @beboutside @Hyperloop @SpaceX @paradigm_hype @swissloop The latter. There are pretty long gaps between each team run, so livestream is not the way to go.

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Aug 27, 2017

From last year, but still my favorite video of the Falcon 9 rocket booster returning from space… https://t.co/b935pdz2Xi https://www.instagram.com/p/BYTrSaHgS-Z/

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Aug 27, 2017

@beboutside @Hyperloop @SpaceX @paradigm_hype @swissloop SpaceX and The Boring Company are running the Hyperloop competition

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Aug 26, 2017

@Techmeme Tesla does not really have "TTunes". That's a joke.

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Aug 26, 2017

@kateconger Will be hanging with my little chum, Gary, on Sunday

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Aug 25, 2017

@RolfeWinkler @julieverhage Let me check on that for you. Found the answer right here: 🔥💩

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Aug 25, 2017

@alexeheath @RolfeWinkler @julieverhage It was misinterpreted by Rolfe at WSJ as a fundraising effort. Neuralink is not seeking investors.

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Aug 25, 2017

@berlinhedgehog @jmackin2 WSJ has been laboriously negative for over a decade. I'm surprised they haven't bored their readers to death by now.

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Aug 25, 2017

Max recovered booster velocity was Mach 7.9 (BulgarianSat). Energy is velocity squared, so this is a bigger difference than it appears

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Aug 25, 2017

Max velocity: Mach 6.9 Max altitude: 247 km Highest so far, but velocity matters much more

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Aug 25, 2017

@rupertdance @VoltzCoreAudio Probably 2m or so

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Aug 25, 2017

@VoltzCoreAudio Exactly. Yeah.

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Aug 25, 2017

@sroalf Intentionally? Yes

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Aug 25, 2017

@HarshilShah1910 It is approximately the size of a carrot

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Aug 25, 2017

Touchdown: Vertical Velocity (m/s): -1.47 Lateral Velocity (m/s): -0.15 Tilt (deg): 0.40 ​ Lateral position: 0.7m from target center

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