ApolloFalcon9

"Explosions are good. Learn it. Love it. Live it." - @eager_space “The future is cool, don’t let anyone frighten you into thinking otherwise.” - Gregg Hurwitz

[Blobifi @Blobifie]

The "Ibeproofin" Clamp arm test rig has been placed atop the 39A OLM to test its hold-down clamps ahead of its first launch!

[ApolloFalcon9 @ApolloFalc9]

@Blaze_R935 That's a great point and they already have a transport stand!

[ApolloFalcon9 @ApolloFalc9]

@Blaze_R935 @LowIQSpaceymen It's Starship. Gotta be.

[ApolloFalcon9 @ApolloFalc9]

Starship is coming to SLC6. It may not be official yet but it’s on the way.

[Vandenberg Space Force Base @SLDelta30]

Today, legacy structures at historic SLC-6 were safely cleared to make way for a new era of spaceflight. With an outgrant issued by the U.S. Space Force in 2025, SpaceX is now modernizing the pad to support next generation spacelift operations.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

SpaceX has exercised the option to acquire @cursor_ai in an all-stock transaction with the goal of building the world’s most useful AI models.

For the past few months, SpaceXAI has been jointly training a model with Cursor, which will be released in Cursor and Grok Build soon.

We look forward to working closely with the Cursor team to advance our frontier AI capabilities

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America.

A platform called GovGreed built a seven-layer machine learning system that cross-references every stock trade disclosed by every sitting politician against the bills their committees control, the campaign donations they receive, and the companies their votes directly impact.

It scored all 540 politicians currently in Congress. And the numbers are crazy:

56% of every stock purchase made by Congress in the last 16 months was on a stock directly affected by a bill the buyer later voted on. That is 6,170 out of 11,016 total purchases.

More than HALF of all congressional stock buys are on companies whose fate that same politician is about to decide.

343 of 540 Congress members actively trade stocks while holding access to nonpublic legislative information.

That is 63.8% of the entire legislature making market bets with an informational edge that would put any hedge fund manager in prison.

The AI identified 752 active "Triple Signals" in the current Congress. A Triple Signal fires when three conditions line up at once:

The politician sits on the committee controlling a bill, they traded stock in a company affected by that bill, AND they received campaign contributions from that same industry.

Bills carrying these insider indicators pass at 5.4 TIMES the normal rate.

Now look at the individual leaderboard:

- Nancy Pelosi's estimated portfolio sits at $194 million with a Greediness score of 98.1 out of 100
- Ro Khanna made 13,231 trades across 800+ different tickers
- Michael McCaul made 32,302 trades and filed 6,670 of them late
- Thomas Suozzi filed 86.4% of his trades late with an average delay of 396 days, meaning his disclosures landed over a YEAR after he made the trade

And then there is Lisa McClain, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House. She has made 1,443 trades in three years, more than 98% of all politicians tracked.

She violated the STOCK Act twice in a single year, disclosing up to $900,000 in trades months after the legal deadline. Her husband bought up to $250,000 in Elon Musk's xAI, which quietly converted into SpaceX equity before last Friday's $2 trillion IPO.

The penalty for all of this? A $200 fine.

The number of Congress members ever prosecuted under the STOCK Act since it passed in 2012? Zero.

And the cruelest part is this:

A bill to ban congressional stock trading was introduced in January 2026. It has bipartisan support. Over 80% of American voters want it passed.

But Congress is sitting on it, because the people who would have to vote yes are the same people making millions from the system staying exactly the way it is.

They write the insider trading laws, they exempt themselves from enforcement, they trade on the information those laws generate, and when they get caught, they pay a fine that is basically nothing.

The AI didn't discover anything Congress was hiding. It just organized what was already public into a pattern so obvious that nobody can pretend it isn't there anymore.

[tina.in.boca @Boca_Tina]

Lots of misinformation being spread about me the last couple days, so some quick facts
- My name is Tina, not Guo Can (or Jessie Anderson). I’m one of many Raptor flight operators on console since flight2. Before that, I wrote control software for the vehicle, and was a stage software operator for flight1

- Been living in Starbase since surborbital days in 2020, absolutely love it down here. The people are wonderful and so so excited about the mission - the lows are lows but the highs are very high. My friends here are the best in the world, and I love them to the moon/mars and back :)

- The reason I decided to say something was because facts matter, but also because wanted to share my real life journey to how I got here. I don’t have a masters or a PhD, I started full time directly after college after 2x internships also at spacex doing software/automation. I was on a couple design teams in college, including Stanford solar car + mars rover. When I started spacex as a software engineer, I knew very little about fluids / propulsion engineering - I learned a lot of it on the job with some pretty incredible mentors. Then I swapped over to propulsion about halfway through my career and have been loving it ever since

[ApolloFalcon9 @ApolloFalc9]

@ApoStructura The confiscation of wealth is a lot more fun when it’s an evil trillionaire.

[ApolloFalcon9 @ApolloFalc9]

@booster_10 I’m sorry I will gladly ride a military helicopter before I fly Starliner lol

[ApolloFalcon9 @ApolloFalc9]

No, your first paragraph justifies envy and there’s a reason it’s a sin. Be thankful for what you have and strive to deserve that, then make the world a better place.

[AstraPublica 🚀🛰️💫 @AstraPublica]

We should be sympathetic to those who have been left behind economically, to whom the presence of unfathomably wealthy people naturally seems an inequity.

But this does not change the reality that Musk's wealth was earned rather than forcibly extracted from others. It does not detract from their overall wealth; instead, his trillionaire status reflects a market where people freely choose to buy based on the value he provides.

[ApolloFalcon9 @ApolloFalc9]

@ApoStructura @is_OwenLewis It’s the essence of the degrowther mindset and you can trace the source to the politicians who talk that way.

[ApolloFalcon9 @ApolloFalc9]

@Yrouel86 It's really frustrating that Blue is still not 100% all in on second stage reuse/Jarvis despite having a GOAT level booster.

[Spunky @stratospunky]

Starship might be the greatest test program of our generation.💫

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[ApolloFalcon9 @ApolloFalc9]

Chills.

[Jay W. Richards 🇺🇸 @DrJayRichards]

There are many more examples, but my favorite is from the often-wrong-but-never-in-doubt Neil Degrasse Tyson, in 2015. Note the certainty from Tyson (an astronomer), in making economic and investment predictions far outside his expertise. 8/9

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet.

Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years.

And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor.

You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.

[ApolloFalcon9 @ApolloFalc9]

@RoKhanna Please name a federal government program that accomplished its mission on time and within budget and promptly ceased operating.

[ApolloFalcon9 @ApolloFalc9]

I’d love to know what Richard Bowles, the Arianespace executive everyone is clowning on would say about what SpaceX achieved. Arianespace was on top of the aerospace world in 2013. It can happen to anyone. SpaceX’s motto is only the paranoid survive for a reason.

[Ken Kirtland IV @KenKirtland17]

Here's some more of his banger takes from the same panel

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

The reason anyone gets insanely rich is almost always because of the stock market. It certainly how @elonmusk did.

And the reason they get rich from the stock market, is because 150m Americans decided they wanted to own shares of stocks directly, or through their retirement plans, or through other approaches as a way of building their net worth and trying to create a better life for themselves.

One Hundred Fifty Million Americans. About 60% of adults.

Effectively believing that @elonmusk and many billionaires could make them wealthier and help them achieve a better life.

If you want @elonmusk , and most billionaires to no longer be that rich, convince those 150m to sell their stocks, funds, ETFs whatever.

Of course you would wipe out the net-worth of most of those people, and everyone else’s savings, as the markets crashed and brought down the economy and created the worst depression we have ever seen.

Alternatively

There are ways to improve healthcare access and eventually make it available to all.

To start -
If you want @elonmusk and all billionaires to improve healthcare for everyone , ask them to stop doing business with the enormous healthcare conglomerates and to work directly with transparently priced care providers.

It’s the behemoth HC conglomerates that make HC so bad for so many. (Check my timeline for more detail)

Removing them would push the cost of healthcare down for everyone. Their corporate decisions impact our healthcare cost and availability.

Of course if they do that, not only would our HC costs go down , and the quality of care for their employees and the entire country go up

But

They would see their corporate cash flow increase dramatically and we would have more millionaires, billionaires and maybe even another trillionaire when that cash flow moved from the big health care conglomerates to their bottom line, so would the net worth of the 150 million American adults that own public stocks

Capitalism is better than socialism because 150m Americans can influence exactly what happens in this country.

[ApolloFalcon9 @ApolloFalc9]

@ApoStructura Funny how they never got around to his fallback position when asked if SpaceX achieved reuse, “well, they’re not supermen, if they can do it, we’ll do it too”.