Elon Visionary

[Katherine Boyle @KTmBoyle]

“We need to fill up the moon sand with footprints.” My five year-old said this to me over the weekend out of the blue as kids often do. He’s been begging us to take him to Kennedy Space Center. He knows who the Soviets were because of his book on the space race. He can name all the shuttles and wishes they were still flying.

I keep thinking about the moon sand today. That some companies are not just good businesses or technologies. They’re dreams built for everyone, but most importantly, for children. And if your company somehow alters the reality of what a child thinks is possible for him and what his parents knew was not possible for them, that is a noble company of the highest order.

[David Senra @davidsenra]

Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) on what it’s like to work at SpaceX:

“It’s like being dropped into a zone of shocking competence.”

“Everybody is ultra competent, and the reason everybody’s ultra competent is because if they’re not, Elon sniffs it out and fires them. He knows, ‘cause he’s talking to the people actually doing the work.”

“The best engineers in the world want to work for him, ‘cause he’s the one CEO like this who’s able to work with them as a peer on whatever the technology is.”

“What would be better as an engineer than being able to design a rocket engine with Elon Musk as your engineering partner?”

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

It is the answer

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

I called my engineer friend at SpaceX the other day.

1am Pacific. 3am in Starbase.

He was still in the office and not going home any time soon.

And he was happy. Energized. Because he's directly influencing the course of a multi-planetary future for humanity.

On a fundamental level, this is why Elon companies win. Young, high-competence people are given exceptional individual agency and semi-impossible problems.

And they know that their contribution is essential.

Any company that does this is much more likely to succeed. Elon does this without fail.

Inspires me a lot.

[Scott Manley @DJSnM]

Starlink from the moon:

[NIK @ns123abc]

🚨 STARSHIP V3 UPGRADES

SpaceX just unveiled Starship Version 3
Every major system redesigned:

> payload tripled to 100 metric tons
> all 33 Raptors now fire simultaneously
> 3 grid fins instead of 4, 50% bigger
> hot-stage adapter now fully reusable
> engine shielding deleted
> fuel transfer tube the size of a Falcon 9 first stage
> 60 Starlink V3 sats per launch
> new docking ports for in-orbit refueling

The redesigned internal fuel transfer tube is so massive, it's literally the size of a Falcon 9 first stage.

"We kind of put a rocket inside of a rocket"

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Welcome to Starbase, @NICKIMINAJ!

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just measured your existence by how many times your atoms have been inside a dying star.

Musk: “How many times have your atoms been at the center of a star? I think it’s like on average three or four times.”

Every atom in your body has already survived the core of a star.

Multiple times.

Crushed under pressures that would flatten planets.

Superheated to millions of degrees.

Blown apart in explosions so violent they forged new elements.

Then gravity pulled those scattered pieces back together.

New stars formed.

And the cycle repeated.

For 13.8 billion years, your atoms have been fuel for the most violent process in the universe.

And they are not done.

Musk: “In terms of existence as measured by the number of times your atoms will be at the center of a star, we seem to be roughly halfway.”

Halfway.

Your atoms have been through the furnace three or four times.

They will go through three or four more.

But right now, in this impossibly thin sliver between cycles, those atoms are doing something they have never done before.

They are conscious.

For billions of years before you, they burned through stellar cores with no awareness.

No memory.

No sense of what they were or where they had been.

After you, they will return to that state.

Unconscious matter drifting through space until the next star claims them.

This is the only moment in their entire journey where they can look back at the stars that made them and understand.

Musk: “If you want to look at the big picture… that’s the really big picture.”

The big picture is not that we are small.

Everyone already knows that.

The big picture is that we are temporary witnesses to a process that does not need witnesses.

Stars do not need observers to burn.

Atoms do not need anyone to understand where they have been.

The universe ran for billions of years with no one in it.

It will run for billions more after the last conscious thing disappears.

But right now, matter is examining itself.

That has never happened before in 13.8 billion years.

You are not a person who happens to contain ancient atoms.

You are ancient atoms that briefly figured out how to think.

The universe did not design consciousness.

It designed stars.

Consciousness was the accident.

And the accident is half over.

[paranoidream ♡︎ @paranoidream]

When you put the atoms in a particular shape, why are they able to form thoughts? And take actions and have feelings?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

In both cases, police were uncaring, but only in one case does Starmer bend the knee

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@tunguz I know it’s wrong, but I keep reading the name of the drug as Retardatide and thinking ok you lose a few iq points, but at least you’re thin

[Howard Lutnick @howardlutnick]

Data centers in space are coming. Satellite Data Centers that follow the sun 24/7. Thanks to @Gwynne_Shotwell for driving American Technology forward.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

lol

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Western civilization is amazing

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

Major study finds voters have statistically zero influence on Congress.

In case you’re curious why the 80% issues don’t pass, from crime to open borders to secure elections.

[Tyler @rezoundous]

Is Composer 2.5 really that good at coding? Anyone tried it yet?

[Natalie F Danelishen @Chesschick01]

The amazing @NICKIMINAJ shows up at SpaceX and thanks Elon for all he does for humanity right before launch❤️

[De Real AIM @isaac5xx]

@elonmusk Crazy how Starbase is starting to sound normal now 🚀

Are we witnessing the beginning of an actual space city?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Yes