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Elon called catching rockets with giant chopstick arms “bananas” years before SpaceX pulled it off.
“We’re talking about catching the largest flying object ever made on a giant tower with chopstick arms. It’s like Karate Kid with the fly, but much bigger.”
Elon Musk, Lex Fridman Podcast #252, December 2021.
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Whenever people say the U.S. has a lot of starvation, it's like they're saying they don't realize the poor have obesity issues these days.
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More than a dozen flight tests and years of development, with countless hours worked by SpaceX engineers and technicians, all come down to this: the first orbital Starship launch carrying advanced Starlink satellites bound for space.
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Do you treat everyone with respect, regardless of their financial status, appearance, religion, or background?
A. Yes
B. No
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Elon Musk predicts space will become the lowest-cost place to run superintelligence within just 2–3 years
“I think the case is a no-brainer for building solar-powered AI data centers in space”
Solar panels facing the Sun and radiators pointed away from it can provide an incredibly efficient power and cooling system
“The net effect is that the lowest cost place to put AI will be space. And that'll be true within two years, maybe three at the latest”
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SpaceX has released new footage from Starship Flight 14. Incredible video of Starlink V3 satellites being deployed in space.
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Ron Baron backs Elon Musk to put data centers in space.
BREAKING: Ron Baron backs Elon Musk to put data centers in space.
“We need more power and Elon’s doing that.”
• Baron says America needs to build more chips at home and generate more electricity. “We need more power. Elon’s doing that.”
• By Baron’s estimate, China has roughly 3× the power capacity of the U.S. and adds about 300 gigawatts a year, compared with 20 in the U.S.
• Baron says Musk is targeting launches in 2027 and 2028 to bring solar-powered data centers into orbit.
• He expects data centers in space to be “significant in 2028” and “huge” a year or two later.
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Ron Baron on @elonmusk and Terafab today
BREAKING: Ron Baron on @elonmusk and Terafab today:
"He’s the biggest job creator in the country. And you have people who are speaking against him and all he cares about is, you know, why does he work all these different hours, crazy hours and sleep four or five hours a night.
He has been responsible for reindustrializing our country. And so it’d be a bad thing if we were in America reliant on silicon, only coming from Taiwan. He’s probably the only person in this country who is able to build things at scale, at attractive prices. Only one.
Talking about Terafab. That happens to be a hundred million square foot building. He’s the only way to build these things at scale. And and when he does that, that’s job creation. He’s creating hundreds of thousands of jobs and making not just making people more successful and giving them better life, but hundreds of thousands of jobs, millions of jobs."
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Indian government sources say Starlink is welcome in India. 🇮🇳
BREAKING: Indian government sources say Starlink is welcome in India. 🇮🇳
“Customer is the king,” one official told ANI today. India welcomes competition in satellite internet, and customers will choose their provider based on price, value and quality.
Yesterday brought good news for Starlink Direct to Cell too. TRAI proposed letting Indian mobile operators use their existing spectrum to connect phones directly to satellites. If adopted, the proposal could give Starlink a path to bring Direct to Cell to India through a local telecom partner, helping people stay connected where cell towers don’t reach.
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Tesla Model Y is Australia’s best-selling passenger vehicle so far this year, beating the Toyota RAV4.
Tesla Model Y is Australia’s best-selling passenger vehicle so far this year, beating the Toyota RAV4.
From January through October, Tesla sold 39,035 Model Ys versus 35,927 RAV4s. Sales of Tesla’s all-electric SUV jumped 117.2% compared with the same period last year.
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The stock market is a very strange thing. It's kind of like Warren Buffett's sort of analogy, is the stock market's like having someone stand at the edge of your house and yell prices to buy or sell your house every day.
ELON MUSK: “The stock market is a very strange thing. It's kind of like Warren Buffett's sort of analogy, is the stock market's like having someone stand at the edge of your house and yell prices to buy or sell your house every day. And sometimes they take their meds and sometimes they don't.
So sometimes the person yelling the price of your house is having a good day and sometimes it's having a bad day. But it's still the same house. You're like, it's literally still the same house.
So Tesla stock goes up and it goes down, but actually it's still the same company. It's just people's perception of the future. I guess it's just very emotional.”
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