Christian 🚀⚡️

🤙🏼 electrician and skydiver who needs space ;)

[John Winkopp SpaceCoastPictures @John_Winkopp]

Video of Starlink 10-53 solar transit. WAI media.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship flip and landing burn at the end of its twelfth flight test

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Views of Starship in space from a @Starlink satellite

[Christian 🚀⚡️ @Skydaaad]

@teslaenergy When Austria? 🇦🇹 @teslaenergy @elonmusk

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

That iPhone video is the farthest a consumer smartphone has ever been from Earth. Roughly 250,000 miles away, handheld through a docking hatch window, at 8x zoom with no modifications.

Apollo 8's Earthrise was shot on a Hasselblad 500EL that NASA had torn apart and rebuilt. Custom lubricants that wouldn't off-gas in vacuum. 70mm Ektachrome film. A 250mm Zeiss Sonnar lens on a bespoke camera body with motorized film advance. 1968 peak-of-engineering, purpose-built for one job.

Reid shot his version on an iPhone 17 Pro Max. 200mm equivalent focal length at 8x. f/2.8. The same phone shipping to Apple stores this week.

The 8x view looks close to the human eye because the tetraprism folds the optical path inside a sensor the size of a fingernail. Apple spent a decade compressing what used to require a 250mm Zeiss barrel into 4mm of stacked glass plus computational denoising.

The four astronauts went 252,756 miles from Earth. The device that documented the view sits on your nightstand.

[Christian 🚀⚡️ @Skydaaad]

@lotharlindinger @Tetiana_Xx Seven Sisters, i think

[Tesla Europe, Middle East & Africa @teslaeurope]

Together with RDW, we have officially completed the final vehicle testing phase for Full Self-Driving (Supervised) and have submitted all documentation required for the UN R-171 approval + Article 39 exemptions. The RDW team is now reviewing the documentation and test results package internally. They have communicated the expected approval for Netherlands date of 4/10, shifting from 3/20 previously and we look forward to successful completion of this cooperation. 

Following the Netherlands’ approval, European countries will be able to recognize this approval nationally. We are anticipating a possible EU-wide approval during the summer.

Over the past 18 months, this approval has involved a series of intense documentation, development, testing, research & audits. Including but certainly not limited to:

– 1,600,000+ km of FSD (Supervised) testing on EU roads
– 13,000+ customer sales ride-alongs
– 4,500+ track test scenario executions
– Thousands of pages of written documentation for 400+ compliance requirements
– Dozens of research studies into safety performance/results

We're extremely proud of the work conducted with the RDW team up until this point.

We very much look forward to the approval in April, and sharing FSD (Supervised) with our patient EU customers!

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Jensen Huang just called the exact top of the pharmaceutical industry.

Not a pivot. Not a disruption.

An extinction event.

Huang: “Where do I think the next amazing revolution is going to come? And this is going to be flat out one of the biggest ones ever. There’s no question that digital biology is going to be it.”

The medical establishment has spent centuries playing a chaotic game of trial and error.

We’re about to mathematically engineer the human operating system.

Huang: “For the very first time in human history, biology has the opportunity to be engineering, not science. When something becomes engineering, not science, it becomes less sporadic and exponentially improving.”

Biology is no longer the dark art of random discovery.

It’s a predictable, compounding execution loop.

Translate the chaotic variables of chemistry into the laws of computer science and you stop waiting for accidental breakthroughs.

You simply compute the cure.

That line should terrify every pharmaceutical executive alive.

Huang: “It can compound on the benefits of the previous years. And every researcher’s contributions compound on each other.”

For decades, drug discovery has been an isolated, artisanal process.

One lab. One team. One molecule. Years of blind iteration.

The algorithm just shattered that entire bottleneck.

Every failed protein fold, every successful synthetic molecule instantly trains the foundational model.

Makes the next iteration mathematically smarter.

Huang: “We’re going to have incredible tools that bring the world of biology, which is very chaotic and constantly changing and diverse and complex, into the world of computer science. And that is going to be profound.”

Incumbent pharma looks at the human body and sees an unmanageable wall of variables.

Engineers look at that exact same body and see raw data waiting to be compiled.

No longer guessing how a molecule will react in the physical world.

Running millions of zero-cost simulated iterations before a single test tube is ever touched.

Rip the chaotic friction out of the physical lab and drop it directly into a massive GPU cluster?

The timeline to map, edit, and optimize the biological machine doesn’t shrink.

It collapses.

[Christian 🚀⚡️ @Skydaaad]

@ZacksJerryRig

[Tesla @Tesla]

FSD Supervised helps keep you safe

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Tesla developed high resolution radar and the hardware is actually present in Model S & X, but it just can’t compare to passive optical (cameras), so we turned it off.

As a side note, any military systems that rely on radar “stealth” technology are toast in a modern conflict, unless in very dense, continuous cloud cover.

A toy AI chip can see you even at night with passive optical, especially if extended to infrared. The aircraft’s heated path through cold air sticks out like a laser beam!

[Eric Berger @SciGuySpace]

We might be just two weeks from sending humans back into deep space. For 75 percent of the world's population, it will be the first time this has happened in their lifetimes. Can't wait to see it.

[Starfish Space @StarfishSpace]

Check out this Earth image taken by Otter Pup 2 with @Redwire's SentinelCAM technology. Otter Pup 2 was in orbit off the coast of South America looking at Antarctica when it snapped this pic. The thin line visible above Earth is created by glowing molecular oxygen in the upper atmosphere.

Camera systems play a critical role in rendezvous, proximity operations, and docking, and we’ve been proud to partner with Redwire for cameras on our Otter Pup missions.

Stay tuned for more pics from Otter Pup 2 as its mission progresses!

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

In der USA sind die meisten Menschen enthusiastisch.
In Europa werde ich beschimpft, Leute schreien REGULIERUNG und VERANTWORTUNG.

Und wenn ich wirklich hier eine Firma baue dann kann ich mich mit Themen wie Investitionsschutzgesetz, Mitarbeiterbeteiligung und lähmenden Arbeitsregulierungen abkämpfen. Bei OAI arbeiten die meisten Leute 6-7 Tage die Woche und werden depentsprechend bezahlt. Be uns ist das illegal.

[markusdd @markusdd5]

Porsche Taycan - Pouch Cells - thermal stability issues, recalls, regular service visits
several Hyundai/Kia models - Pouch Cells - massive billion dollar recall over fire risk
Chevy Volt - Pouch Cells - complete vehicle recall and production halt over massive fire risk and several real indicents

Tesla - having by far the biggest data pool - recommends AGAINST ever using pouch cells in vehicles for at least a decade - because they are thermally unstable and prone to hot spots.

Mercedes: YES - let us use POUCH CELLS from some unknown unreliable chinese WingWong manfacturer. Not even BYD or CATL - but Farasis. Lol.

It is beyond me why people who make those decisions do not pay personally for it. I can sort of forgive the early GM and Hyundai models because the data wasn't as clear cut yet (although it was always physically apparent), but Porsche and Mercedes, and anything that gets pouch cells new today is completely inexcusable.
This is basically like using cardboard hangers for your exhaust pipe. It's not a question if it catches fire, but when.

[Matt Ridley @mattwridley]

I do think this could (COULD) turn out to be one of the big stories of the decade.

[Christian 🚀⚡️ @Skydaaad]

@TeslaNewswire Wen Austria 🇦🇹?

[Ashok Elluswamy @aelluswamy]

Robotaxi rides without any safety monitors are now publicly available in Austin.

Starting with a few unsupervised vehicles mixed in with the broader robotaxi fleet with safety monitors, and the ratio will increase over time.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Just started Tesla Robotaxi drives in Austin with no safety monitor in the car.

Congrats to the @Tesla_AI team!

If you’re interested in solving real-world AI, which is likely to lead to AGI imo, join Tesla AI. Solving real-world AI for Optimus will be 100X harder than cars.

[David Moss @DavidMoss]

The record setting Tesla FSD intervention streak is over

We made it so close to 13k at 12,961 miles (20,858KM) but rural Wisconsin roads + snow + weather in the teens was just a bit too much. No accident or anything big to note just found myself in a tricky situation where it was time to takeover. Safety over everything people! I will be posting the footage later today from the saved Dashcam clip.

FSD 14.2 took me to 30 states & 7.5 weeks of driving without any human input whatsoever. That’s absolutely every part of the driving end to end for weeks on end. All I did was put in the navigation destination & press start self driving & it always took me to where I wanted to go.Pretty incredible & that’s before even talking about me being the first person to drive coast to coast fully autonomously with no interventions.

All the support you guys have showed these past 2 months have meant the absolute world to me, I wish I could have the chance to thank you all in person someday. I appreciate it all very much.

We aren’t going anywhere people, this streak may be over but the journey is just getting started.