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Nigel Lockyer
@Nigel_Lockyer · Aug 30, 2020
Classical Mechanics-351, 1993, @elonmusk @Penn @Fermilab Yeah! Physics works.
Elon Musk@elonmusk· Aug 30, 2020Just learned that my physics prof from Penn is head of Fermilab & still has some of my old homework ☺️
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 30, 2020
Physics is the law, everything else is a recommendation
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 30, 2020
Replying to @SamTalksTesla
If some company has solved a useful thing that we can just buy, that would be great! It’s so much work to create our own tech. We develop new tech, because we have to, not because we want to.
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TESLARATI
@Teslarati · Aug 30, 2020
Elon Musk is headed to Germany for Tesla vehicles and vaccines teslarati.com/elon-musk-is-h…
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 30, 2020
Tesla Germany designed & built the vaccine RNA printers for CureVac, but, subject to some CureVac IP, they could be made for other companies too
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World of Engineering
@engineers_feed · Aug 30, 2020
Term of the day: Horsepower
Definition: Horsepower (hp) is a unit of measurement of power, or the rate at which work is done, usually in reference to the output of engines or motors.
Image by Sgbeer.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 30, 2020
Technically, James Watt measured a pony, added 50% & rounded up haha
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 30, 2020
Alexander and the Rise of Hellenism and Film Studies
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 30, 2020
Also, Critical Thinking
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 30, 2020
Replying to @flcnhvy
Alexander and the Rise of Hellenism and Film Studies
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Ross Gerber
@GerberKawasaki · Aug 30, 2020
Did you take astronomy at Penn? It almost killed me...
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 30, 2020
Wow, I super loved astronomy (but took it at Queens, not Penn)! Definitely one of my favorite classes. Senior year quantum mechanics at Penn was the hardest class I ever took. That stuff will mess with your mind.
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Tesla Owners Silicon Valley
@teslaownersSV · Aug 30, 2020
Do you even know what he has
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 30, 2020
Yeah, he sent it to me through a mutual physics prof friend at Caltech/CERN. Very basic stuff.
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Pauline 🚀
@justpaulinelol · Aug 30, 2020
Can you show us some of your old homework! Pls 🥺🥺
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 30, 2020
It’s too embarrassing
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 30, 2020
Just learned that my physics prof from Penn is head of Fermilab & still has some of my old homework ☺️
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Rory Cellan-Jones
@ruskin147 · Aug 30, 2020
Before everyone gets too excited about the @elonmusk Neuralink demo here’s what Prof Andrew Jackson, Professor of Neural Interfaces, Newcastle University, says: “this is solid engineering but mediocre neuroscience”
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 30, 2020
It is unfortunately common for many in academia to overweight the value of ideas & underweight bringing them to fruition. For example, the idea of going to the moon is trivial, but going to the moon is hard.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 30, 2020
Replying to @l_vaux
People are extremely unlikely to die of Covid/sars-cov2 alone. If you have multiple pre-existing health conditions & a weak immune system, then you have significant mortality risk from many diseases (not just Covid/sars-cov2) that would otherwise have minor effect.
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Pranay Pathole
@PPathole · Aug 30, 2020
Btw is Tesla is working on building the RNA factories with CureVac? What's the progress on that?
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Elon Musk@elonmusk· Jul 2, 2020@SamTalksTesla @tlowdon @daniellevitt22 Tesla, as a side project, is building RNA microfactories for CureVac & possibly others
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 30, 2020
That & Giga Berlin are why I’m headed to Germany this week. Conversations with Harvard epidemiology confirmed that a high-speed RNA printer has potential be helpful for vaccines & cures in many areas.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 30, 2020
Some of the tests we initially tried at Tesla were ~50% false positive, including some from major medical device companies. Too many testing methods were approved too quickly. Wouldn’t blame the FDA, though. Public was demanding fast test approval.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 30, 2020
Antibody half-life for cov2 is very short. In a study that SpaceX did working with Harvard epidemiology, it appears to be as low as 2 or 3 weeks. Nonetheless, reinfection rates are very low & symptoms are minor, perhaps due to memory T cells
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Pranay Pathole
@PPathole · Aug 30, 2020
The article mentions stripping the testing cycles to 35 would result in a 50% decrease in positives and dropping to 30 would decrease positives by 70%. WOW. This may be the most bombshell article I’ve seen since the start of the pandemic.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 30, 2020
Yeah
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“Mary”
@kulpability · Aug 30, 2020
In the time since you have reopened, how many of those employees who tested “positive” have been hospitalized or died?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 30, 2020
One person at Tesla (out of 60,000) was hospitalized in serious condition (he caught cov2 at home, not work), no deaths. I called his wife & Hayward hospital to make sure he was getting the right treatment, but which he was.
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Don Wolt
@tlowdon · Aug 29, 2020
Stunning new research finds C19 PCR tests are much too sensitive to be useful in assessing spread. "In 3 sets of testing data...compiled by officials in MA, NY & NV, up to 90% of people testing positive carried barely any virus." The implications are huge.
nytimes.com/2020/08/29/hea…
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 30, 2020
Some of the tests we initially tried at Tesla were ~50% false positive, including some from major medical device companies. Too many testing methods were approved too quickly. Wouldn’t blame the FDA, though. Public was demanding fast test approval.
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Whole Mars Catalog
@wholemars · Aug 30, 2020
does 2020.36 have the autopilot rewrite in shadow mode or did someone just make that up 🙂
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 30, 2020
Not yet
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Marcus House
@MarcusHouse · Aug 29, 2020
Thanks for the reply on that. Is there currently a Super Heavy thrust structure being built? I can only imagine the design that needs to go into making something that can support the huge thrust of 30+ Raptors.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 30, 2020
Yes. This is the hardest part of the booster design.
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James Stephenson
@ICannot_Enough · Aug 30, 2020
More detail in $TSLA quarterly investor letters would be very helpful to <clears throat> retail investor earnings forecasts.
How are Model 3 and Y selling (separately), by production site? How are buyers configuring upgrades by model? How are variable costs improving? Etc.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 30, 2020
People read too much into this level of detail. It’s not useful for predicting the future, nor can we ourselves accurately predict what issues we will encounter on a short-term, fine-grained level.
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