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Dreams of Mars 🕊❤️🚀🌕
@MemesOfMars · Mar 30, 2019
a few dozen? So when can we use Starlink :) My WIFI sucks!
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Mar 30, 2019
Even connectivity at my house in Silicon Valley sucks!
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Mar 30, 2019
Replying to @marshgre
Like the movie Us. Scary … but also empathetic.
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Dreams of Mars 🕊❤️🚀🌕
@MemesOfMars · Mar 30, 2019
If there are learnings from Starship (Hopper) would that technology benefit Block 5 in any way?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Mar 30, 2019
No, but for sure the other way around!
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TesLatino
@TesLatino · Mar 30, 2019
Well, make sure to stay in touch. I’ll be there as well. Probably at the Saturn V/Apollo Center for the Feel the Heat package.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Mar 30, 2019
Also the intense low frequency vibrations that you can’t hear, but you can feel in your chest
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Brian
@1_Red_Head · Mar 30, 2019
@elonmusk do you have any updates on the falcon heavy being able to land all 3 boosters?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Mar 30, 2019
We’re going to try. Side boosters come back to Cape, center core lands on droneship. Latter will be coming in v hot & fast, so dicey.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Mar 30, 2019
Yeah, Falcon Heavy Block 5 has way more performance than last year’s vehicle. Lot of room to increase side booster load transfer & max Q without changing any parts. FH Block 5 can launch more payload to any orbit than any vehicle currently flying.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Mar 30, 2019
Annoying that @ULA perpetuates myth that Delta IV Heavy or Atlas V can do some orbits that Falcon Heavy can’t. This is absolutely false. FH would have to go full expendable for GEO direct, but that’s very rare.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Mar 30, 2019
Replying to @flcnhvy
Yeah, Falcon Heavy Block 5 has way more performance than last year’s vehicle. Lot of room to increase side booster load transfer & max Q without changing any parts. FH Block 5 can launch more payload to any orbit than any vehicle currently flying.
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Everyday Astronaut
@Erdayastronaut · Mar 29, 2019
I’m actually shocked you’d even consider an expendable StarShip upper stage instead of just delivering a kick stage! I’ll bet a F9 upper stage and large payload could fit inside the cargo bay of StarShip. Now that would be wild! 🤯
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Mar 30, 2019
Probably no fairing either & just 3 Raptor Vacuum engines. Mass ratio of ~30 (1200 tons full, 40 tons empty) with Isp of 380. Then drop a few dozen modified Starlink satellites from empty engine bays with ~1600 Isp, MR 2. Spread out, see what’s there. Not impossible.
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Emil Melar
@emilmelar · Mar 29, 2019
Hi! When will the retrofits start on S/3/X with HW2 and HW2.5? Very eager to test! :)
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Mar 30, 2019
Retrofits will start when our software is able to take meaningful advantage of the Tesla FSD computer, which is an order of magnitude more capable. For now, it’s slightly disadvantageous to have Tesla FSD computer, as our software is more refined for HW2.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Mar 30, 2019
Replying to @MacBenTosh
Anyone who bought FSD will get it
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Mar 29, 2019
Anyone who purchased full self-driving will get FSD computer upgrade for free. This is the only change between Autopilot HW2.5 & HW3. Going forward “HW3” will just be called FSD Computer, which is accurate. No change to vehicle sensors or wire harness needed. This is v important.
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Michael Baylor
@MichaelBaylor_ · Mar 29, 2019
Are you confident that Crew Dragon will be relatively easy to refurbish now that you have the data from the first orbital flight?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Mar 29, 2019
Yes. Sensitive propulsion & avionics remained dry. Great work by SpaceX Dragon engineering team. Major improvement over Dragon 1.
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Everyday Astronaut
@Erdayastronaut · Mar 29, 2019
How will Starship do interplanetary probe missions? Will it do an injection burn, release the payload then cancel out the burn and come back? Or just put up a kick stage for the interplanetary injection burn? Like Europa clipper... can StarShip do it?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Mar 29, 2019
Massive delta velocity slam from highly elliptical Earth orbit using a fully retanked, but lightened up Starship with no heat shield or fins/legs. Best choice for the impatient. Ion engines are too slow.
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Discover Magazine
@DiscoverMag · Mar 29, 2019
What Are Tholins? The Mysterious Substance That Turned Ultima Thule Red blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2019/03/1…
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Mar 29, 2019
We should send probes to outer solar system & get high res, true color images of these strange things. Maybe there’s an alien artifact out there …
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Erin Winick Anthony
@erinwinick · Mar 29, 2019
Really excited to see this helicopter actually fly on Mars in a few years! (via @techreview) technologyreview.com/the-download/6…
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Mar 29, 2019
Super cool!
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Martin Galway
@martin_galway · Mar 29, 2019
@elonmusk could my older Model S get a "fake" Sentry Mode screen? There is a chance some thieves won't know which cars have HW2 and which don't... so even though I am aware there is no real Sentry Mode, it might deter some thieves from breaking in
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Mar 29, 2019
Good point
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Mar 29, 2019
Replying to @ialexryan
Tax authorities tend to interpret things in their favor, but it sure sounds like you could be right! Will investigate.
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Ross Gerber
@GerberKawasaki · Mar 28, 2019
Hey @elonmusk can you charge a tesla from plugging into another tesla? Can this be done easily, could be very cool if tesla owners can charge other teslas when low on batteries... $TSLA
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Mar 28, 2019
Rare use case, but it is possible. There are complications with this. Eary prototype Roadsters had this ability.
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CEM®
@ChadyMattar · Mar 28, 2019
Anyone in the market for a new car and gets one without autopilot will be basically getting a stick shift of our time, basically a flip phone in 2019. @elonmusk
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Mar 28, 2019
Exactly
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Brian Tu
@briantu · Mar 27, 2019
For someone who commutes 2+ hrs/day, autopilot in the Tesla 3 has been a game changer and hands down the best feature. It takes the edge off of driving, especially in gridlock. Less/no road rage = 😃👨👩👧👧Thx @elonmusk
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Mar 27, 2019
Super proud of Tesla Autopilot team!
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