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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 24, 2019
Replying to @D1g1talDrag0n
It’s smart *and* enhanced!
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 24, 2019
Smart Summon coming soon!
Jeffrey Adjei@thedoyen_· May 23, 2019If you’re not gonna hype me up like this when I buy my first Tesla I don’t want you in my life please😂😂😂
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Niche Gamer
@nichegamer · May 23, 2019
Is the moat still being built along with the sassy French insult tower guys.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 23, 2019
Tower with Knight is across road from SpaceX, looking at rocket
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 23, 2019
Replying to @flcnhvy
Part of the factory is being upgraded, but tours will continue around the parts that aren’t
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🇨🇦Walter MacVane👀🇨🇦
@EcoHeliGuy · May 23, 2019
Still plan to use the remaining space as a unpressurized trunk?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 23, 2019
Yes, will be used for rear cargo storage. Also helps manage center of mass for heavy payloads when forward cargo is full.
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Everyday Astronaut
@Erdayastronaut · May 23, 2019
So in a shape like this... ish? The inner nozzles are 1.3m, the vac are 2.8m and the diameter is 9m (8.75 ID) If so, I think that looks super cool!!! 🙌
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 23, 2019
Outer engines are attached to the edge of the airframe to give the center engines room to move
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Everyday Astronaut
@Erdayastronaut · May 23, 2019
2 meter bell for vacuum? 3 meters? How big we talking here? 🤔
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 23, 2019
~2.8m
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Ali Ashraf🇵🇸
@AliJamalAshraf · May 23, 2019
Which ones are the turbo pumps and which are the turbines? The central fan looking things or the outer fan looking things?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 23, 2019
Turbines on hot side (outer fan-looking things in this depiction), but this is just to illustrate the type of engine. Our turbopumps are vertical, have 3 fan-looking things on pump side & complex cross-flow. Liquid oxygen turbopump is integrated with main combustion chamber.
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Everyday Astronaut
@Erdayastronaut · May 23, 2019
Boca Chica or Florida? I'm very curious if you built a super heavy in Cocoa how on earth you'd get to to the pad 😆
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 23, 2019
Horizontally
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 23, 2019
Replying to @flcnhvy
First flights would have fewer, so as to risk less loss of hardware. Probably around 20.
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InsideEVs
@InsideEVs · May 23, 2019
Consumer Reports Not Thrilled By Misleading Navigate On Autopilot Headlines insideevs.com/news/351110/co… via @insideevs.com
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 23, 2019
So it goes
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 23, 2019
Replying to @Mollyonm4rs
3 months
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 23, 2019
Replying to @flcnhvy
Hopefully, 4 months
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Marstronauts
@marstronauts · May 23, 2019
What about dual-bell nozzles?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 23, 2019
Vacuum nozzle engines are only used in (near) vacuum conditions. Sea level engines need to gimbal rapidly & at high angle for landing. Larger nozzle leaves less room to move & increases moment of inertia.
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Everyday Astronaut
@Erdayastronaut · May 23, 2019
Are you going back to that cluster of 3 sea level right in the middle and then 3 vacuum around the outside? More akin to the 2017 BFR presentation?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 23, 2019
Yeah. Outer engines with much larger nozzles are fixed to airframe, inner engines have high gimbal range ~15 degrees
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Tom Leach ⚪️
@tommleach · May 23, 2019
How do you feel that Wall Street can’t handle you being a Meme Lord?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 23, 2019
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trigoMEMEtry
@trigomemetry · May 22, 2019
Is it alright if I post your tweets on my Instagram meme account with credit?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 23, 2019
Sure
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Dirk Smit 🇿🇦 🇳🇱
@DirkSmit76 · May 23, 2019
How long is the tunnel going to be?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 23, 2019
Two tunnels about a mile long each
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Debapratim
@debapratim_ · May 23, 2019
What might the interior of the Starship be like. Will there be separate rooms for each passenger? Like I guess it needs to be attractive for paying customers on board.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 23, 2019
Yes
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 23, 2019
Replying to @curiousmind44
Makes no sense. In order to grow the colony, you’d have to transport vast amounts of mass from planets/moons/asteroids. Would be like trying to build the USA in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean!
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