Sam D'Amico
@sdamico · Nov 2, 2025
this possibly unlocks interstellar travel, via an enormous laser sail on a vehicle propelled by distributed high-power laser beams from a massive fleet of satellites.
unlike avatar, you can shrink the payload to essentially an “AGI bootloader” (quite literally, a seed)
Ryan McEntush@rmcentush· Nov 1, 2025each starlink v3 appears to have ~100 kW of solar (based on array dimensions). starship should carry ~50–100 per flight — call it ~6 MW nameplate per launch at 60 sats.
spacex applied for ~30k sats → ~3 GW of orbital solar in total
if starship hits even conservative projected
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
But then how do you slow down at your destination?
Antimatter “drives” ftw imo.
04:18 AM · November 3, 2025 · 16.1K views
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