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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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Feb 12, 2015

Rocket soft landed in the ocean within 10m of target & nicely vertical! High probability of good droneship landing in non-stormy weather.

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Feb 12, 2015

Primary mission on target. Spacecraft head towards the sun! All good there.

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Feb 12, 2015

@DanielLockyer We could actually do that...maybe we should

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Feb 12, 2015

Planning a significant upgrade of the droneship for future missions to handle literally anything. Maybe give it a Merlin for good measure :)

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Feb 12, 2015

Can't delay any longer. Must proceed with primary mission to launch the Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft.

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Feb 12, 2015

Mega storm preventing droneship from remaining on station, so rocket will try to land on water. Survival probability <1%.

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Feb 11, 2015

Coming home http://t.co/FmrmYs6R6V

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Feb 11, 2015

Dragon splashdown off the California coast http://t.co/4Bvfmei8I3

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Feb 11, 2015

Launch postponed to tomorrow due to high winds at the Cape, but Dragon still inbound from orbit in 90 mins

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Feb 11, 2015

Extreme wind shear over Cape Canaveral. Feels like a sledgehammer when supersonic in the vertical. Hoping it changes …

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Feb 10, 2015

"What Are The Civilian Applications?" https://t.co/iG2Zn3fUnO https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M8YjvHYbZ9w

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Feb 9, 2015

Prob good though. Will give us time to replace 1st stage video transmitter (not needed for launch, but nice to have).

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Feb 9, 2015

Air Force tracking radar went down. Launch postponed to same time tomorrow.

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Feb 9, 2015

Rocket reentry will be much tougher this time around due to deep space mission. Almost 2X force and 4X heat. Plenty of hydraulic fluid tho.

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Feb 8, 2015

Launching our 1st deep space mission today. Headed to Earth-Sun L1 gravity null point at 1M miles, 4X further than moon.

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Jan 30, 2015

If you are curious about the P85D, you can schedule a test drive here: http://t.co/Eu19pBUpNO http://ts.la/dE

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Jan 30, 2015

Painting the name on the droneship ... http://t.co/X8R8O4KjPx

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Jan 30, 2015

P85 acceleration will also improve, but not quite as much

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Jan 30, 2015

Video made by owner of a P85D going up a 14% grade on snow passing a whole bunch of stuck SUVs https://t.co/LC9AHx0fuC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eObSjtU6YXc&feature=youtu.be

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Jan 30, 2015

Tesla dual motor cars are also all-wheel drive. Main goal of dual motor was actually insane traction on snow. Insane speed was a side effect

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Jan 30, 2015

Tesla P85D 0 to 60mph acceleration will improve by ~0.1 sec soon via over-the-air software update to inverter algorithm

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Jan 28, 2015

Great DragTimes video of people experiencing P85D "Insane Mode" acceleration for the first time https://t.co/gqN9oremMQ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1qFV5i8tBhs

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Jan 26, 2015

Final one: anything launched by a railgun (if you could ever reach ~ Mach 27) would explode upon exiting the barrel in our dense atmosphere

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Jan 26, 2015

Ion thrusters are great, but have extremely tiny force (photon thruster even less). Must have more thrust than weight or you don't go up.

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Jan 26, 2015

And pls don't ask me about space elevators until someone at least builds a carbon nanotube structure longer than a footbridge

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Jan 26, 2015

Reason is Newton's Third Law. In vacuum, there is nothing to "push" against. You must react against ejected mass.

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Jan 26, 2015

If u saw @TheSimpsons and wonder why @SpaceX doesn't use an electric rocket to reach orbit, it is cuz that is impossible

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Jan 24, 2015

West Coast droneship under construction will be named "Of Course I Still Love You"

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Jan 23, 2015

Good primer on the exponential advancement of technology, particularly AI http://t.co/1c30ZwJ8Y5 http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html

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Jan 23, 2015

@thomasmuirhead Good piece

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Jan 23, 2015

@elonmusk ... In honor of IMB, RIP.

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Jan 23, 2015

Repairs almost done on the spaceport drone ship and have given it the name "Just Read the Instructions"

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Jan 20, 2015

The universe is really, really big https://t.co/4j3jvIaqpe https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=udAL48P5NJU

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Jan 17, 2015

@trakz @TheSimpsons Of course!

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Jan 16, 2015

Next rocket landing on drone ship in 2 to 3 weeks w way more hydraulic fluid. At least it shd explode for a diff reason.

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Jan 16, 2015

@ID_AA_Carmack Full RUD (rapid unscheduled disassembly) event. Ship is fine minor repairs. Exciting day! http://t.co/tIEctHFKHG

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Jan 16, 2015

@ID_AA_Carmack Residual fuel and oxygen combine http://t.co/5k07SP8M9n

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Jan 16, 2015

@ID_AA_Carmack Rocket hits hard at ~45 deg angle, smashing legs and engine section http://t.co/PnzHHluJfG

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Jan 16, 2015

@ID_AA_Carmack Before impact, fins lose power and go hardover. Engines fights to restore, but … http://t.co/94VDi7IEHS

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Jan 16, 2015

@ID_AA_Carmack Tks. Turns out we recovered some impact video frames from drone ship. It's kinda begging to be released…

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Jan 16, 2015

Also thinking of having an annual student Hyperloop pod racer competition, like Formula SAE http://t.co/HV9BLCoMb8 http://students.sae.org/cds/formulaseries/about.htm

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Jan 16, 2015

Will be building a Hyperloop test track for companies and student teams to test out their pods. Most likely in Texas.

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Jan 15, 2015

Funding research on artificial intelligence safety. It's all fun & games until someone loses an I http://t.co/t1aGnrTU21 http://futureoflife.org/misc/AI

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Jan 12, 2015

Yesterday's mission to the Space Station lights up the cloudy night sky of Cape Canaveral http://t.co/DFB742HaQt

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Jan 11, 2015

World's top artificial intelligence developers sign open letter calling for AI safety research: http://t.co/ShWc8F7Kyq http://futureoflife.org/misc/open_letter

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Jan 10, 2015

Am super proud of my crew for making huge strides towards reusability on this mission. You guys rock!

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Jan 10, 2015

Upcoming flight already has 50% more hydraulic fluid, so should have plenty of margin for landing attempt next month.

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Jan 10, 2015

Grid fins worked extremely well from hypersonic velocity to subsonic, but ran out of hydraulic fluid right before landing.

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Jan 10, 2015

Didn't get good landing/impact video. Pitch dark and foggy. Will piece it together from telemetry and ... actual pieces.

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