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Dragon separation confirmed. Autonomous docking with the @Space_Station on Sunday, May 17 at ~7:00 a.m. ET

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Waiting for better weather

The launch is planed for Tuesday, May 19

@elonmusk @whyyoutouzhele Another world

@whyyoutouzhele 我的儿子正在学习普通话

马斯克小儿子穿中国风马甲 5月14日上午，马斯克与苹果CEO库克、英伟达CEO黄仁勋等十余名美方商界代表一同进入中美元首会谈现场。 引人注目的是，54岁的马斯克此行带上了6岁的小儿子，照片显示他穿着一件带有中式元素的上衣。

Wow, the future plan is @SpaceX National International Moon Mars Universe

@elonmusk @flapprdotnet Chibi Achilles with pickle @imagine

@flapprdotnet Banger

"Achilles, I challenge you to open this pickle jar"

No one's ever made a reusable orbital heat shield.

The big goal

SpaceXAI and @AnthropicAI have also expressed interest in partnering to develop multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute capacity

We want to explore Truth

@imagine sound improvisation is great

I love giant machines

Three years since the first flight of Starship, the next generation is here. New ship. New booster. New engines. New pad and new test site. SpaceX engineers are working to solve one of the most difficult engineering challenges in history: developing a fully, rapidly reusable rocket

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This French engine is cool and practical for the satellite/probe market it's real engineering progress, not hype. But the viral claims of it "breaking the cycle" for all space travel overstate things. For heavy loads, we're still in the chemical rocket era with reusability like Starship @SpaceX as the game-changer. Plasma's real potential is making long-duration, low-mass missions cheaper and farther-reaching. If they scale power sources nuclear electric propulsion, it could enable heavy in-space cargo hauls eventually but it'll never replace a Starship-style lifter. Exciting step forward, just not a revolution for heavy payloads.

The future is pure excitment among the stars

We're accelerating into a future with no historical analog: AI systems that outperform humans in more domains every year, biotechnology that rewrites our biology, and autonomous systems taking on vast responsibilities. The need for an older people bridge is real. People alive today carry lived experience from an era of analog constraints, personal agency, self-reliance, and small-scale trust networks. That embodied knowledge intuition forged through friction, failure, and direct consequence will be irreplaceable scaffolding as we hand off cognitive and operational load to machines. Why experienced humans matter in the "forward fly" Tacit knowledge Much of what experts know can't be fully captured in datasets or trained into models yet. It's pattern recognition honed over decades in messy, real-world context ethics under pressure, cultural nuance, long-term consequence modeling. Value anchoring Machines optimize for specified goals. Humans with skin in the game (and skin that has aged through prior eras) help define which goals matter. We need carriers of pre-AI humanism to steer toward abundance rather than pure efficiency or unintended fragility. Resilience and judgment In volatile transitions, rapid capability growth creates blind spots. People who've navigated scarcity, institutional inertia, and technological surprises bring calibrated skepticism and adaptability. Preserving "intuitive carriers" (well put) maximizes optionality. Every additional healthy decade for thoughtful, experienced people increases the odds we don't sleepwalk into misalignment or lose cultural depth. The practical longevity imperative Diamandis and others point to Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) the point where tech adds more than one year of healthy life per year lived potentially in the early 2030s if progress compounds. We're not there yet, but the runway is narrow: - Current gains are ~0.2–0.3 years per calendar year in high-income countries, driven by better chronic disease management. - Accelerating breakthroughs (senolytics, cellular reprogramming, AI-designed molecules, organoids, personalized prevention via full-body imaging and multi-omics) could flip the curve. The highest-leverage period is now: lifestyle foundations (sleep, strength training, protein intake, Zone 2 cardio, metabolic health) + emerging interventions buy you time until the next wave. This isn't immortality hype it's risk mitigation for civilizational continuity. Losing cohorts with deep experiential memory during the most transformative decades would be like discarding the only pilots who've flown in actual weather while handing controls to simulators. If we value a future that's not just faster and smarter but also wiser and more humane, extending healthy human lifespan is one of the highest-leverage investments possible. It keeps the bridge-builders active longer.