@elonmusk Even better, what if only landowners voted, as originally prescribed in the Constitution?
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Ray Trzcinski
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@SomeUKTeslaGuy @Erdayastronaut Highly unlikely because all the plumbing and the engines are different, they would like to verify a successful ignition of the landing burn without risking the tower
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@Erdayastronaut Is it known how different the parameters, etc, are for V3 vs V2?
Is it possible they go for a catch at the first flight if all the numbers look good?
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Look at how close to the edges of the chopsticks the new booster is on Pad 2! I guess they sure have confidence in their landing accuracy! That's wild!
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@Erdayastronaut Seems like there is space to get a little closer to the tower for landing, but they positioned the launch mount as far away as practical to limit damage to the tower on liftoff
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@1Ramblinred @FelixSchlang I think they did, but it was a really long time ago
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@FelixSchlang Did they do the water bag tests on the pad 2 chopsticks? I don't remember seeing it.
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🚨SPACEX BOOSTER 19 LIFT
Here's our 4k view of yesterday's Booster 19 lift in all its glory and with just a few Raptor engines missing!
More on tomorrow's episode! ❤️🚀
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Buckle up, it's go time. 🚀
We’re excited to help achieve the new goals outlined by @NASAAdmin and we applaud @NASA’s accelerated vision for the future of Orion, the Artemis program and the commitment to building a sustainable lunar presence.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman@NASAAdmin
President Trump gave the world the Artemis Program, and NASA and our partners have the plan to deliver. We will standardize architecture where possible, add missions and accelerate flight rate, execute in an evolutionary way, and safely return American astronauts to the Moon, this time to stay. This is the NASA that once changed the world. This is the NASA that will do it again.
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@SenKatieBritt @NASA @NASA_Marshall He basically announced the beginning of the end of SLS by saying that they would not bother to made hardware upgrades for the remaining planned SLS missions. Their contractors pushed their luck too far wasting our time and money, and they're going to get dumped from Artemis.
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.@NASA’s bold move to increase Artemis missions is great news for Alabama and the nation.
@NASA_Marshall in Huntsville, which plays a vital role in the Artemis program and Space Launch System, is powering America’s return to the Moon!
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman@NASAAdmin
President Trump gave the world the Artemis Program, and NASA and our partners have the plan to deliver. We will standardize architecture where possible, add missions and accelerate flight rate, execute in an evolutionary way, and safely return American astronauts to the Moon, this time to stay. This is the NASA that once changed the world. This is the NASA that will do it again.
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@Erdayastronaut I thought it was to push plasma away from the catch point.
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Which smarty McSmarty pants out there can tell me what exactly this is. I assume Starlink antenna based on its general shape, but I want it to be a pop out RCS block cuz that’d be sick 😂 (it’s not)
SpaceX@SpaceX
The first Starship V3 has left the build site to begin prelaunch testing
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@Part107Flyer @FelixSchlang It was a good landing, but then hardware changed significantly
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@FelixSchlang Soooooo...was flight 11 considered the first clean soft landing?
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Two clean soft landings in the Indian Ocean for Starship v3 until we can expect a catch. The rule is still in place.
Earliest for a ship catch: Flight 14 👍
Elon Musk@elonmusk
Should note that SpaceX will only try to catch the ship with the tower after two perfect soft landings in the ocean. The risk of the ship breaking up over land needs to be very low.
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@JeffThomas_86 @FelixSchlang They can certainly take it up to orbit and then de-orbit for a splashdown on the second one, but I think they will verify the ability to re-light Raptor 3 in space in a suborbital test on Flight 12
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@FelixSchlang It will also need to re-enter from obital speed, so hopefully they will actually get a ship to orbital velocity within the next couple of test flights. Exciting time ahead I am sure
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@AMJalsevac @BigBrainBizness @elonmusk I pointed this out when I started at my current job. The acronyms were making it very hard to learn anything. They just looked at me like I was stupid.
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Wow. I absolutely LOVE Elon's point about acronyms.
When I was in communications and moved from the non-profit sector into tech, it took me at least a month to learn a whole new language. I'm far from being an idiot, but people were throwing so many acronyms and abbreviations at me I thought I'd landed on a different planet. Even today when I scroll through X, I regularly have to ask Grok what three or four letter abbreviations stand for, and it drives me batty.
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In Elon Musk’s 2018 leaked Tesla memo, he lays out 7 blunt rules for getting more shit done:
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@BigBrainBizness My company gets most of these wrong and it's extremely annoying.
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@TheBabylonBee This is not right. We need stupid people to vote.
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Democrats Warn Voter ID Will Disenfranchise Key Voting Demographic Of People Too Stupid To Get An ID buff.ly/2XUJWN1
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Ray Trzcinski ретвитнул
Seedance 2.0
Prompt: Sum up the AI discourse in a meme - make sure it’s retarded and gets 50 likes.
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@_ray_3rd_ @elonmusk Plenty of carbon in the lunar regolith
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For those unaware, SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years.
The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to the stars.
It is only possible to travel to Mars when the planets align every 26 months (six month trip time), whereas we can launch to the Moon every 10 days (2 day trip time). This means we can iterate much faster to complete a Moon city than a Mars city.
That said, SpaceX will also strive to build a Mars city and begin doing so in about 5 to 7 years, but the overriding priority is securing the future of civilization and the Moon is faster.
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@CryptoBecks @elonmusk Imagine if the species that were meant to be in the oceans had stayed there.
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@Cryptorockstar @elonmusk That's what worries me. Elon Musk was our only hope for getting to Mars anytime soon. If he puts it on the back burner, he will probably die before he accomplishes his life's work.
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@elonmusk Breaking: SpaceX just yeeted the entire Mars timeline into the shadow realm because the Moon said “you can literally drive there in 2 days, bro why are we waiting 26 months like it’s Comcast installation
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@GeneralPatton83 @elonmusk The moon is going to be stolen land.
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@DimaZeniuk @elonmusk I never understood why they wanted to choose Mars as the first planet. The moon was always a more realistic starting point.
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@AJamesMcCarthy @elonmusk We will see what resources are even available. For one thing, we need carbon to make Starship fuel.
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@elonmusk This has always felt like the smartest play to me. Using the resources on the moon that are already outside Earth’s gravity well makes the rest of the solar system much more accessible.
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