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Everyday Astronaut
@Erdayastronaut · Aug 18, 2020
Is there video of this?! That looks gorgeous!!!
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 18, 2020
Yeah, will post shortly
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Krystof Mitka
@krystof_mitka · Aug 18, 2020
go look at martin eberhard wiki
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 18, 2020
Winning “worst person I’ve ever worked with” is not easy. Some real champions are vying for that title!
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 18, 2020
Ms Tree catches fairing in her net
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 18, 2020
Fairing chute control & ship control are closing the loop locally. Both operating on (SpaceX) autopilot.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 18, 2020
Ms Tree catches fairing in her net
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Business Insider India🇮🇳
@BiIndia · Aug 18, 2020
A car-sized #asteroid flew within about 1,830 miles (2,950 kilometers) of #Earth on Sunday.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 18, 2020
😐
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 18, 2020
Replying to @ashleevance
Up there somewhere, cruising through deep space
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National Geographic
@NatGeo · Aug 18, 2020
Earth spins on its axis once about every 24 hours. But the inner core is a roughly moon-size ball of iron floating within an ocean of molten metal on.natgeo.com/31ZE3XP
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 18, 2020
Must be aliens
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 18, 2020
Replying to @spendg8
Yes
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RGV Aerial Photography
@RGVaerialphotos · Aug 17, 2020
SpaceX Boca Chica Build Site 2 years apart.
“The long term goal for SpaceX is to build the technologies necessary to make life multiplanetary” @elonmusk
Thanks for choosing Boca Chica to make this a reality! #spacex #bocachica
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 18, 2020
This little spit of dirt will take us to Mars
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James Wang
@draecomino · Jan 16, 2020
Deep learning continues to improve at astounding rates. In 2017 it costed $1,000 to train ResNet50 on the cloud, now it costs $10.
Thanks to AI accelerators and 'unlimited' compute in the cloud, AI algorithms are eating up 10x the amount of FLOPs per year.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 18, 2020
Humans are swiftly becoming a small percentage of total compute
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Everyday Astronaut
@Erdayastronaut · Aug 17, 2020
Exactly! Merlin for example can deep throttle down to under 40% of its max output (I forget the exact number) thanks largely in part to its pintle injector. Raptor hasn’t gone below 50% that I’m aware of and might have a harder time doing so than the Merlin.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 18, 2020
Max demonstrated Raptor thrust is ~225 tons & min is ~90 tons, so they’re actually quite similar. Both Merlin & Raptor could throttle way lower with added design complexity. Raptor preburner & Merlin gas generator flameout are what limit lower bound.
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Adam Blitzer
@AdamBlitzer · Aug 17, 2020
To be fair, none of those other companies implemented fart mode. mashable.com/review/tesla-m…
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 18, 2020
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Pauline 🚀
@justpaulinelol · Aug 17, 2020
How many Raptors for SN40?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 17, 2020
That’s engine SN. We’re building SN8 of the ship.
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NSF - NASASpaceflight.com
@NASASpaceflight · Aug 17, 2020
Nice! What SN are you up to now?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 17, 2020
SN40 is about to be tested & has several upgrades over 330 bar engine. For reference, 330 bar on Raptor produces ~225 tons (half a million pounds) of force.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 17, 2020
Raptor engine just reached 330 bar chamber pressure without exploding!
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Everyday Astronaut
@Erdayastronaut · Aug 17, 2020
Another awesome render! I think people might forget how high 20km is! That’s about twice as high as a commercial airliner flies, so watching Starship bellyflop out of the sky at that altitude will be crazy!!!
Corey@C_Bass3d· Aug 17, 2020With more and more hardware showing up at the construction site, #SN8's 20km hop and belly flop are feeling a little more real, despite how unreal it'll look.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 17, 2020
Yeah, Starship will be a tiny dot at 20km. Hard to see with naked eye. We’ll do lots of flights.
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Corey
@C_Bass3d · Aug 17, 2020
With more and more hardware showing up at the construction site, #SN8's 20km hop and belly flop are feeling a little more real, despite how unreal it'll look.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 17, 2020
Very impressive render. Note, legs will be bigger & there’ll be way more stuff in engine bay. Main engines actually do majority of work in turning ship vertical before landing.
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Pranay Pathole
@PPathole · Aug 17, 2020
And the explosion had a force of 5bn atomic bombs
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 17, 2020
This might sting a little …
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Pranay Pathole
@PPathole · Aug 16, 2020
Well someone removed "business magnet 🧲 " from your wiki, imo that can be considered as trashing 🤣
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 17, 2020
The “early investor” part of Tesla is wrong. That bs has been pushed by Eberhard (worst person I’ve ever worked with and that’s saying something!) for years.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 17, 2020
Pretty much
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 17, 2020
Also, there could be long period comets that intersect Earth right now. We just haven’t observed them during humanity’s (very short) recorded history. Comet S-L 9 punched a roughly Earth-sized hole in Jupiter.
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