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Air traffic controller, and a true aficionado of aerospace, orbital mechanics and e/acc. And sunsets 🌅

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[Oukham @OPteemyst]

@elonmusk There's a Tesla hate can not touch. It's orbitting the sun and will continue to do so even long after all the hate has faded to dust. On it is a circuit board with the words, "made on Earth by humans"

Hate will never win. Love is forever

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When they tell you “don’t, it’s futile” that’s when you really know you should do it #NoStatusQuo

[Adeo Ressi @adeoressi]

I organized an intervention to stop Elon from starting SpaceX. Here is the story...

Twenty five years ago, Elon and I sat in a car on a dark stretch of Long Island highway, two neurodiverse geeks staring at the night sky and wondering what came next. We had both experienced substantial exits and felt the weight of possibility ahead of us.

When I joked about 'space' while gazing upward, neither of us imagined we were planting the seed for what would become the largest IPO in history. We spent the next two hours debating why space was so hard. In the end, rockets are fuel and metal. We also debated where to go, and it was crystal clear that Mars was the only real destination.

Upon returning to NYC, we embarked on a global tour of space, meeting space agencies and luminaries worldwide. This opened our eyes to an industry stuck in bureaucratic thinking. If things continued at that pace, it was clear that we would never explore space in our lifetime.

So, we launched Life to Mars to show the world that two ambitious young men (29 and 30 years old), could send life to Mars without any government backing or support. We planned to send and grow plants on Mars, though some were pushing us to send mice.

We had a $50 MM budget that rested on our purchase of two Russian ICBMs for $7 MM each. We assumed one ICBM would fail, and we would learn and fix everything before launching again. When Elon went back to actually buy the ICBMs, the Russians tripled the price, bringing out launch costs from a total of $14 MM to $42 MM.

Our ambitious Life to Mars plan was no longer viable.

As you might imagine, Elon was not pleased. So, he decided to start SpaceX and create his own Mars rockets. Now, this is a crazy idea, both now and at the time, so I organized a large panel of top space experts, and we ambushed him at the Georgian Hotel one morning. It was set up like an intervention for an alcoholic, but for space.

Elon looked me in the eye when leaving the room and said, "I am going to do this." The intervention failed. Elon was committed. The rest is history.

I am excited to see this IPO after 25 years of hard work. What SpaceX has done is a testament to human will and overcoming insurmountable obstacles. It's nothing short of amazing.

Congratulations, E. Amazing.

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@AlgoNCapital @CyberTshr @Tesla @Tesla_AI @elonmusk @aelluswamy @edgecase411 @wholemars sky isn’t empty, LoL.
#ATCO

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@EU_Commission “montly”?

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no earthquakes
no snakes
no sharks
no life threatening forest fires
no people getting hit by fork lightning all the time
…
all of the above is not true for *any* other country on the European continent (including my home countries Croatia and Dalmatia), and most probably the whole planet

so yeah, I’ll happily take some cozy heating in June over all of the above

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Believe me - you wouldn’t want to fly in an airliner where pilots have to manually keep the controls when in cruise. They have to observe the autopilot (two people even), but they wouldn’t dream going near the controls when in cruise. In fact it’s illegal and they’d have to advise us the ATC if their autopilot is not available as we wouldn’t be able to get sufficient safe separation from other acft

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well, I do like Obama, but he abandoned people of Flint, the world tarrifs america (In EU we’ve *always* been paying a tarriff if stuff is made in America, my California made Tesla back in 2020 was tarrifed $7000 extra because it came from USA, so I can’t really blame USA when they want to tarriff EU, it’s only fair)

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@real_dublindamo a few of those look like red herrings. though it might be misleading

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@paddythehopper @MimiVonPeach why are you showing 2023 and not 2025?

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@AlgoNCapital @CyberTshr @Tesla @Tesla_AI @elonmusk @aelluswamy @edgecase411 @wholemars btw - sky isn’t feckin empty. I’m an air traffic controller and it sure as hell is crowded.
Thinking european sky is empty is just being lazily stupid…

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@AlgoNCapital @CyberTshr @Tesla @Tesla_AI @elonmusk @aelluswamy @edgecase411 @wholemars seems like you don’t understand difference between autonomous driving and full self driving supervised (which is how it’s advertised).
By your logic airplanes don’t have Autopilot and Autoland systems because not one but TWO pilots are needed to monitor the system…

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I didn’t buy it dude, I’m in the EU, we don’t have it yet. but it’s coming hopefully this summer and it’s subscription. where you got 12k$ from
I have no idea, EU never had that price.
Whatever it’s called I’ll be happy to take it as even the basic autopilot that I’ve had last 6 years has been life changing

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@nijineko33 @CaolanReports neutral? LoL, nope

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@nurun39636322 @TrungTPhan and packed and marketed and sent accross the world with 100 year guarantee of plastic not changing shape or hue?

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@dclarke1984 @APACHE11111 @R01CQUlMRVk @rtenews nope

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@59logic @tpgoebel @SawyerMerritt no, those same sellers know the roadmap better than any outsider and they’d be silly to sell all.
Same as early Tesla investors selling here and there didn’t tank the stock.
Investing just €3000 back in Tesla back in 2013 would have you *one million euros* today

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@dclarke1984 @APACHE11111 @R01CQUlMRVk @rtenews LoL, if only you knew who you’re talking to 🤭

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@dclarke1984 @APACHE11111 @R01CQUlMRVk @rtenews you sir are actually 100% wrong

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@dclarke1984 @john003 @rtenews LoL, all wrong

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@dclarke1984 @john003 @rtenews you’re right, they’re the present.
Dinosaur smoke machines are the past.

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@dclarke1984 @APACHE11111 @R01CQUlMRVk @rtenews wrong