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@JETLABX

Building a Future for Space 🇺🇸

Pensacola, FL Bergabung Eylül 2022
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X Freeze
X Freeze@XFreeze·
Starship is built to ensure that the wonders of the universe are not just seen, but reached
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Teslaconomics
Teslaconomics@Teslaconomics·
Do you love 𝕏? Y/N
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JETLAB-X@JETLABX·
@farzyness I wish I had more money to buy more $TSLA
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Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷
The more research I do on Terafab, the more my head hurts. I don't think people are grasping how batshit f*cking crazy this project is.
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Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷
Elon Musk Unveils Insane New Project (Terafab) This edit improves audio and is edited down to save time.
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Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷
How chips are made: Fire a laser at tin droplets in a vacuum, creating plasma hotter than the sun, bouncing that light off mirrors that are the smoothest objects ever made by humans, to print patterns that are smaller than a virus, on a thin slice of purified sand. lol.
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Elon Musk
Elon Musk@elonmusk·
@shanaka86 Starlink satellite maneuvering is done with heuristics (conventional software), not AI
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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡
Yesterday SpaceX launched 29 more Starlink satellites from Florida. Nobody cared. Routine. Another Tuesday. Here is what actually happened. Satellite number 10,074 entered an orbit where 300,000 autonomous collision-avoidance maneuvers were executed last year alone. Not by humans. By onboard machine learning that screens conjunction data from 30 million object-transit observations per day, computes probability in real time, and fires ion thrusters if risk exceeds one in a million. The industry standard is one in ten thousand. SpaceX set its threshold 1,000 times stricter and then automated the entire thing. Three hundred thousand maneuvers. That is 820 per day. Forty per satellite per year. Every single one decided and executed by AI faster than a ground controller could open the alert email. This is Tesla Full Self-Driving logic running in vacuum at 7.8 kilometers per second. SpaceX did not stop there. In January they launched Stargaze, a space situational awareness network built on the star trackers already aboard every Starlink satellite. Thirty million observations daily, conjunction screening delivered in minutes instead of hours, and they gave the data away for free to every operator on Earth. They just made themselves the air traffic control system for low-Earth orbit and charged nothing because the real product is not the data. The real product is the standard. Now connect this to last week. Terafab breaks ground in Austin. One terawatt per year of AI compute. Eighty percent allocated to space. D3 chips designed to run hotter in vacuum where radiative cooling is free. Satellites with 100-kilowatt solar arrays scaling to megawatt. Optimus robots replicating from raw materials. The Dyson Swarm bootstrap. Every analyst covering Terafab is modeling chip yields, capital costs, and process nodes. Not one of them is asking the question that determines whether any of it works: how do you manage ten thousand satellites without a single collision, and then scale that to ten million, and then to five billion? The answer already exists. It launched its 300,000th maneuver months ago. It processes 30 million observations every 24 hours. It operates at a collision-probability threshold three orders of magnitude beyond what any government or competitor has achieved. And it improves with every satellite added because more nodes means more eyes means better models means safer density. This is the orbital operating system for a Kardashev II civilization and it is already running. The Hormuz crisis proved that terrestrial supply chains are molecule-dependent and fragile. The Terafab announcement proved that Musk intends to move compute off-planet. But neither of those matter if the orbital environment becomes a debris field. The collision-avoidance AI is the gate. Without it, every satellite launched is a lottery ticket for Kessler syndrome. With it, density becomes self-reinforcing instead of self-destroying. Nobody is covering this because it is not a product announcement. It is not a keynote. It is infrastructure so foundational that it has become invisible, the way TCP/IP became invisible the moment the internet worked. SpaceX did not just build a satellite constellation. They built the nervous system of orbital civilization and trained it on 300,000 real-world decisions before anyone realized what they were looking at. The rockets are visible. The chips are headline news. The AI keeping ten thousand objects from destroying each other in silence at eight kilometers per second is the actual breakthrough. And yesterday they added 29 more nodes to the network. Routine.
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Falcon 9 launches 29 @Starlink satellites from Florida

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Lacey
Lacey@LaceyPresley·
Let the haters hate their noise is just rocket fuel for those building the future.
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JETLAB-X@JETLABX·
And here’s to do it Lawyer: The sole compliant, scalable legal framework is the establishment or funding of an independent 501(c)(3) charitable relief program. This approach has been widely and successfully employed during prior and current shutdowns by nonprofits, unions, and airports. • Structure: Musk (or an entity under his direction, such as the Musk Foundation) may create or substantially endow a dedicated TSA Employee Hardship Relief Fund as a tax-exempt public charity. The fund would disburse need-based emergency grants, gift cards for essentials (subject to Office of Government Ethics limits, typically $20 or less when given directly), or interest-free bridge loans explicitly designated for personal living expenses (rent, groceries, utilities, transportation). Distributions are made to employees in their personal capacity, not as compensation tied to official duties. • Legal Safeguards: Because assistance is motivated by humanitarian need rather than performance of government services, it falls outside the prohibition of 18 U.S.C. § 209. Federal ethics rules permit such private charitable support, provided it is not solicited by employees in their official capacity or accepted at screening locations. Unions (e.g., AFGE locals) and airport authorities may serve as distribution partners, as they operate outside direct federal payroll restrictions. • Precedent and Scalability: This model was utilized extensively during the 2018–2019 shutdown and is actively operating in the present lapse through organizations such as the Federal Employee Education and Assistance Fund (FEEA), labor unions, and airport-led pantries. A Musk-led fund could operate at national scale, coordinating with TSA management, unions, and airports for rapid, needs-based distribution while preserving employees’ entitlement to full retroactive government pay. This charitable vehicle fully complies with all applicable statutes, avoids criminal liability, and delivers immediate, meaningful financial support without interfering with congressional appropriations authority. It represents the most practical and legally robust mechanism available for private-sector intervention during funding impasses. Professional legal and tax counsel should be engaged to establish the entity and ensure ongoing compliance with IRS and Office of Government Ethics guidelines. How do like them 🍎?
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SMX 🇺🇸
SMX 🇺🇸@iam_smx·
President Trump accepts Elon Musk’s offer to pay TSA salaries. His response: “I think it’s great. Let him do that”
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