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High Signal AI
High Signal AI@HighSignal_AI·
Elon Musk on the regulatory absurdity of launching Starship: Elon explains that before SpaceX could launch Starship, regulators required them to study whether the rocket would hit a shark in the Pacific Ocean. "It's a big ocean. There's a lot of sharks. It's not impossible, but it's very unlikely." When SpaceX agreed to do the analysis, they hit a wall. Elon recounts the exchange: "We said okay fine, we'll do the analysis. And then, well, can you give us the shark data? They're like, no, we can't give you the shark data." The reasoning behind the refusal left him stunned: "They were worried about the shark density data, like the people who are hunting sharks for shark fins somehow getting their hands on this shark data… Am I in a comedy sketch here?" Eventually they got the data, ran the analysis, and confirmed the sharks would be fine. But the saga didn't end there. "Then we thought, okay now we're done. They said, but what about whales?" Elon's response captures his disbelief: "When you look at a picture of the Pacific, what percentage of the surface area of the Pacific do you see as whale? I don't see any. Where's a whale?" He jokes that if Starship somehow did hit a whale: "Honestly, that whale had it coming, because the odds are so low. It's like Final Destination: the whale edition. Fate had it in for that whale." After clearing the whale analysis, regulators raised yet another scenario: "Well, what if the rocket goes underwater then explodes and then the whales have hearing damage? And we're like, look, if we could make a rocket go underwater and be a submarine, that would be a feat of physics we could not accomplish." Elon sums up his frustration: "It's just one crazy thing after another. This is why I'm really feeling the pain of the overregulation."
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@XFreeze Progress without humanity is hollow.
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X Freeze@XFreeze·
Most people misunderstand Elon's ultimate goal He is trying to make our entire civilization win. To view it as anything less is just shortsighted Elon winning means humanity winning While most people are stuck in a zero-sum mentality, he operates with a "grow-the-pie" mindset You can see all the things he built till now and also his future plans He started working on things long before it was popular or considered possible: • Zip2 & payment systems • Electric vehicles & batteries • Pure vision self-driving • Humanoid robots • Starlink Internet • AI (OpenAI) • Neuralink • The Boring Company And the future is even bigger: 1TW compute clusters, space datacenters, lunar bases, mass drivers on the Moon, and making life multi-planetary... basically driving humanity toward becoming a star-faring civilization He consistently takes on the world’s hardest problems to push our civilization forward... He freakin makes sci-fi real
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In time for Easter—joyous and powerful news: the second U.S. airman downed in Iran has been rescued by heroic American commandos. 🇺🇸 Against all odds, they brought him „home”. We rejoice in the courage of our servicemen, the strength of our nation, and the unwavering commitment to never leave an American behind. God bless our heroes—and God bless the United States of America. 🇺🇸
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