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Toby Li
@tobyliiiiiiiiii · Nov 21, 2020
Even more nuts that the future Starship Super Heavy booster will land right on top of the launch mount! Crazy times.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 21, 2020
Actually, off to the side (so it doesn’t take out the launch mount in bad landing), but with the same arm used to pick up the ship
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Toby Li
@tobyliiiiiiiiii · Nov 21, 2020
Crazy that the landing pad is literally right next to the launch site!
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 21, 2020
Where it should be!
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Phil Whelan 🇨🇦🏴
@philwhln · Nov 21, 2020
But he doesn't invest in others 😁
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 21, 2020
Because I am not an investor. Tesla is definitely not the only good company, but investing is not what I do. But I always put my own money into companies I help create, otherwise it’d be wrong to ask others to do so.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 21, 2020
Well, almost anything
SpaceX@SpaceX· Nov 21, 2020Starlink engineers will answer questions about the service today
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 21, 2020
Quite the day ahead
SpaceX@SpaceX· Nov 21, 2020Falcon 9 is vertical on SpaceX’s West Coast pad ahead of tomorrow’s launch of the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich mission. Weather forecast is 80% favorable for liftoff →
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NASA Aeronautics
@NASAaero · Nov 20, 2020
"The NASA and @LockheedMartin X-59 team is doing an amazing job given the challenging circumstances of COVID-19. The team has shown remarkable resilience, and we’re excited to see the progress on assembly every day." –Craig Nickol, Project Manager go.nasa.gov/3kI2Cjz
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 21, 2020
Now *this* is what you’d call pointy!
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CleanTechnica
@cleantechnica · Nov 21, 2020
Fremont Police Dept. Releases Uplifting EV Pilot Program Results cleantechnica.com/2020/11/20/fre…
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 21, 2020
Cool
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 21, 2020
Replying to @ExploreCosmos_
They’re moving at ~25 times the speed of sound, but it feels like nothing
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 21, 2020
Replying to @WorldAndScience
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 21, 2020
What else do they use the Force for? 🤔
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 20, 2020
Gamer Jedi uses the Force to get snacks
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Vicente Silveira
@vicentes · Nov 20, 2020
Do you see need to upgrade cameras to 4K and better HDR in the future ?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 20, 2020
There will always be upgrades
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Eva Fo𝕏 🦊 Claudius Nero's Legion
@EvaFox · Nov 20, 2020
Lidar is a method of measuring distance by shooting lasers and detecting how much time they take to return.
Computer Vision is a field of AI that trains computers to *understand* the visual world. This is basically reverse engineering human vision.
So....
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 20, 2020
It will be better than human vision by quite a margin
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Nafnlaus 🇮🇸🇺🇦
@enn_nafnlaus · Nov 20, 2020
Has Tesla experimenting with using radar return intensity to assess surface smoothness (ideally over different wavelengths)? Could be really useful data for the NN, e.g. to detect changes in traction ahead (water, ice, sand, leaves, potholes, washboard, etc).
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 20, 2020
Reality looks like a strange ghost-world at radar wavelengths. Almost everything except metal is translucent.
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Pranay Pathole
@PPathole · Nov 20, 2020
"In my view, LIDAR is a crutch that will drive companies to a local maximum that they will find very hard to get out of,” ~ @elonmusk
This blog post:
sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/200…
gives a good explanation of what @elonmusk actually means with this.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 20, 2020
Exactly
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 20, 2020
Replying to @mirojurcevic
This is a misperception. SpaceX developed & continues to use lidar for Dragon docking with @Space_Station.
Just pointless imo for self-driving. If you’re going to do active photon generation, use an occlusion penetrating wavelength, like precision radar at ~4mm.
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Philippe Croizon
@PhilippeCROIZON · Nov 20, 2020
hello @elonmusk I am a famous French adventurer without arms or legs! Send me into space to show once again that anything is possible! @SpaceX
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 20, 2020
One day we will fly you on Starship
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Peter Beck
@Peter_J_Beck · Nov 20, 2020
Welcome back to Earth Electron!
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 20, 2020
Well done!
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Callum
@hisdirtremoves · Nov 20, 2020
The next unofficial @SpaceX Raptor GIF - The LOX turbopump, which pushes about 3.5 times as much fluid as the fuel turbopump. How close am I @elonmusk?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 20, 2020
I can’t comment on turbopump internal details, but you’re roughly in the ballpark. Wow, rocket turbopumps, especially if oxygen-rich, are insanely hard! Arguably, the hardest mechanical/fluids/combustion problem known to exist.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 20, 2020
They have an old version of our software & don’t have our NN inference computer
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 20, 2020
To be clear, this was just an XPeng problem. Other companies in China have not done this.
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