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GOOD NEWS 🚀 For the first time in history, a human-made spacecraft will be exactly one light-day away from Earth 🔥 At exactly 10:16 a.m. GMT on November 18, 2026, Voyager 1 will reach an unprecedented milestone in the history of space exploration: becoming the first human-made object to be exactly one light-day away from Earth 🆒 🌌 What is a "light-day"? Light travels at a speed of nearly 300,000 km/s. In 24 hours, light travels about 16.09 billion miles (25.9 billion kilometers)—a massive distance that took Voyager 1 just over 49 years to conquer. This also means that: 📡 A radio signal sent from Earth will take 24 hours to reach Voyager 1. 📨 If the spacecraft responds immediately, NASA engineers will have to wait another 24 hours to receive the signal. Just a simple back-and-forth exchange will take two full days. 📻 The spacecraft communicates across this vast distance using a transmitter that radiates only about 22 watts—comparable to a small refrigerator light bulb—and sends its science data back at a trickle of just 160 bits per second. ☄️ To reach this incredible distance, Voyager 1 has been cruising at a blistering speed of about 38,000 mph (61,150 km/h) relative to the Sun. 🔋 The spacecraft is powered by the natural decay of plutonium-238, but it loses about four watts of available power annually. As of mid-2026, only two science instruments remain operational. NASA engineers are carefully managing this fading power to hopefully stretch its life into the 2030s, though continued operation is not guaranteed. 📸 Before permanently powering off its cameras to save energy, Voyager 1 snapped the famous "Pale Blue Dot" photograph about 3.7 billion miles from the Sun. Earth occupied a mere 0.12 pixel, suspended in a band of scattered sunlight across the camera optics. Just 34 minutes later, the cameras were shut down forever. 🚀 Launched on September 5, 1977, Voyager 1 successfully explored Jupiter and Saturn before a close encounter with Saturn's moon Titan bent its trajectory northward, launching it out of the planetary plane. On August 25, 2012, it crossed the heliopause and became the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space. While it hasn't completely left the Sun's gravitational domain (it will take roughly 300 years just to reach the inner Oort Cloud!), it continues to send back invaluable data from the cosmic shoreline. Although it is purely a milestone of distance, Voyager 1 reaching the one light-day threshold is a striking reminder of the immense scale of the universe. The most distant object ever built by humans still required just over 49 years to travel the distance that light covers in exactly one day. 💙 After almost half a century of continuously plunging into the endless void, Voyager 1 continues its journey—carrying the Golden Record containing sounds, images, and messages from Earth, as humanity's greeting to the cosmos.

Robot fights are fun 😂

@aaronburnett Traffic will get much worse with robot cars, because the pain of driving yourself is not there anymore!

@SERobinsonJr Cool

@wholemars The car will start to remember your specific interventions and match each person’s individual preferences

Today, Tesla officially opened the world's first public Megacharger in Bloomington, California, about an hour east of Los Angeles. • 6 charging stalls • Each stall capable of 1.2MW (1,200kW) peak charging speeds • Open to all Tesla Semi customers

Balance Bike for Kids now available on Tesla Shop – Lightweight magnesium frame & adjustable seat – Five height levels – Suitable for children 2-5 years old shop.tesla.com/product/balanc…

@mark_k True

Am putting together a product gallery at my ranch in Texas

GPU average power consumption if it’s doing inference over the course of 24 hours is ~2/3 of its peak power, even if you’re super efficient. SpaceX AI Sat V1 peak power spec has been raised to ~250kW (battery-assisted), with average power of ~160kW. Will be able to handle an NVL72 Ruben rack. This is just version 1.

Almost no EV owners want to return to gasoline. A new survey found that just 0.5% of EV drivers would replace their current EV with a gasoline or diesel vehicle if they had to purchase another car today. evwire.com/p/plug-in-amer…

Order the Starlink V5 terminal!

@DirtyTesLa I’ve never seen a cart return like that but maybe it’s just me 🤷‍♂️

FSD 14.3.5 parks in the cart return

@Polymarket Hey @grok what are the ingredients suspected to cause this?

JUST IN: Taco Bell removes some ingredients from menu as a parasite linked to “explosive” diarrhea spreads rapidly throughout the U.S.

March 11th, news of the deaths comes out March 18, Zack Nelson (JerryRigEverything) takes money from Ford to push this unsafe technology on his viewers and starts attacking Tesla Self-Driving that is good enough to save lives. He is willing to kill his viewers for money.

SpaceX just announced that they will be deploying V3 Starlink satellites for the first time during their 13th Starship test flight next week! Six of the satellites have been modified with a suite of cameras to scan Starship’s heat shield and transmit imagery. Summary of every major upgrade and modification @SpaceX says it's made for the upcoming test flight: • More robust stage separation flip sequence to prevent the booster from rotating off course. • Hardware upgrades to improve Super Heavy Raptor re-light reliability during the boostback burn. • Updated engine alarms and abort logic for multi-engine flight conditions. • Starship propulsion system hardware and operational changes to address the Flight 12 engine-out issue. • First deployment of 20 Starlink V3 satellites with laser links, deployable solar arrays, and antennas. • Six Starlink V3 satellites equipped with cameras to inspect Starship's heat shield after reentry. • White-painted heat shield tiles added as simulated missing tiles and imaging targets. • New heat shield tile designs and attachment mechanisms, including tests on the aft flaps and aft skirt. • Load-sensing heat shield tiles to measure stresses during flight. • Higher dynamic pressure ascent profile to stress-test the heat shield and increase payload capability. • Planned in-space Raptor engine relight test. SpaceX: "For the first time, Starship will carry V3 Starlink satellites to space, which aim to greatly expand the network's capacity and user speeds. As part of this initial test, Starship is planned to deploy 20 satellites which will extend solar arrays and antennas and will attempt to connect with ground stations in South Africa and the larger Starlink constellation via high-capacity lasers. Six of the satellites have been modified with a suite of cameras to scan Starship’s heat shield and transmit imagery down to operators to continue testing methods of analyzing Starship’s heat shield readiness for return to launch site on future missions. Several tiles on Starship have been painted white to simulate missing tiles and serve as imaging targets in the test."

Background on the Starship story

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End of an era: Decommissioning the original Model S & X assembly line in just 46 days

Tesla has released a new video of them tearing down the Model S and Model X production lines at Fremont ahead of the installation of the Optimus lines. When fully ramped, this space will be able to produce 1 million Optimus robots per year.