SpaceX is a company whose mission is *axiomatically* the love of humanity
To extend the light of consciousness
The power of this kind of love is hard to quantify but clearly makes the impossible far more probable.
Elon: An AI satellite is actually much simpler than a Starlink satellite
A Starlink satellite has:
• huge phased-array antennas,
• parabolic antennas,
• laser links,
• many complex communication systems
An AI satellite is mostly:
• solar cells,
• radiators,
• compute hardware,
• some laser links
It doesn’t need the complex antenna systems of Starlink. So in some ways, the AI satellite is easier to design - it’s just bigger
My sister lives in Los Angeles.
She's a Democrat but voted for Spencer Pratt.
I was with her when she dropped her ballot in the mail weeks ago.
We checked today and it hasn't been received back.
Are they just TOSSING ballots for Spencer Pratt?
SpaceX has made launching rockets so routine that we've become completely complacent. We forget how insanely difficult it is to reach orbit
If you look at the other Space programs right now:
• A few weeks ago, Blue Origin launched a payload, but it ended up stranded in the wrong orbit
• Days later, their static fire test blew up the entire launchpad like it was a nuclear blast
• Russia launched what they called "Starlink competitor," but their first satellite just died and fell out of orbit after only 75 days
Space is brutally hard. Rockets take years to develop, with a high probability of explosion or failure along the way
Only SpaceX can fly at this cadence with a success rate the rest of the world can only dream of... It's extremely higher than the rest of the entire world combined
The SpaceX operating precision is totally insane... it's an engineering marvel
"I make dogecoin jokes and stuff because I kind of like dogecoin because it got the best sense of humor and it has dogs and memes and I love all those things."
— Elon Musk