BREAKING: Starship 14 flight happening on Sept 18
“FAA added Starship Flight 14 to its Operation Plan Advisory with a window of 12:15 - 14:14 UTC on September 18”
Elon on what makes him happiest in life: his kids
“Of anything in my life, I would say my kids by far make me the happiest”
“I always try to reserve time for my kids, ’cause I love hanging out with them
99% of the time they make you happier.
Starship is one of the most incredible machines humanity has ever built... a machine designed to turn the impossible into infrastructure
It is the most complex vehicle ever created, built for something humanity has never achieved at scale:
Carrying people, cargo, industry and civilization beyond Earth
Elon just revealed the part of Cybercab most people still don't understand:
“The degree to which Cybercab is optimized for lowest possible cost per mile (fully loaded) is understood by very few”
That is the entire game
Not making the fanciest taxi
But making autonomous transportation so brutally efficient that the economics become impossible to compete with
Cybercab was designed around cost per mile from the ground up
Elon Musk on the economic impact of AI + humanoid robots:
“Digital AI alone could increase the global economy by 20% to 30%”
And with humanoid robots:
“You can increase the economy by a factor of 10 or more”
These are mind-boggling numbers
Elon Musk on robots vs AGI.
"The robots are not the scary part. The scary part is AGI, digital superintelligence that far exceeds human intelligence."
Most fear stories point at humanoid robots. Elon splits the risk: Optimus-class machines are tools. Digital superintelligence that outruns every human mind is the control problem.
• Robots — physical work at scale
• AGI — cognition that can outthink us
• The hard question is aligning the digital mind, not the bipedal chassis
Optimus is not the monster under the bed.
Unaligned digital SI is the one that could write its own ending.
"It's not the robots; it's the digital superintelligence to be concerned about."
BREAKING: Pivotal Research has initiated coverage of SpaceX with a Buy rating, calling Starship’s rapid reusability the key to unlocking a massive space economy.
The firm says if SpaceX solves rapid reusability of Starship, it could:
• Cut the cost of reaching orbit by up to 90%
• Expand Starlink faster
• Enable orbital AI data centers
• Win more defense projects
• Unlock manufacturing in space
• Enable point-to-point suborbital passenger travel
• Support power beaming from space to Earth
• Build global sensor and Earth-observation networks.
Starlink just expanded to another huge segment of business aviation
Starlink is now officially available for Hawker 700, 800 and 900 series business jets
Operators can install the Starlink Aviation Performance Kit through Textron service centers across North America and select international locations
And the performance is serious:
• Up to 1 Gbps download
• Up to 100 Mbps upload
• Latency as low as 20 ms
• Streaming, video calls, gaming and more in flight
SpaceX is bringing modern high-speed connectivity to the existing fleet of Hawker business jets already flying around the world
Starlink is steadily becoming the connectivity standard for aviation
The Boring Company is now running TWO Prufrock tunnel boring machines simultaneously beneath Nashville, and the engineering happening underground is insane
Prufrock-MB1 and Prufrock-MB2 are actively mining through extremely strong Nashville limestone
Core samples collected throughout tunneling have consistently tested at around 14,000 psi compressive strength
And removing all that rock is an engineering system by itself
As each Prufrock cuts through the limestone, excavated rock is continuously carried away from the boring machine through a conveyor system running through the tunnel
The material reaches the launch site, then moves through the vertical cassette and vertically stacked conveyor belts before dropping into the rock pit at the surface
So while the machine keeps advancing underground, there is an entire continuous system behind it moving excavated limestone out of the tunnel
Two machines
Two parallel tunnels
Two continuous rock-removal systems
All operating simultaneously
And this is only scaling from here
Prufrock-MB1 has been continuously upgraded as it tunnels, with TBC reporting consistent week-over-week performance improvements
Lessons learned from MB1 were incorporated into MB2
Now Prufrock-MB3 is scheduled to arrive in Nashville this month, incorporating what TBC has learned from both machines to make it significantly more efficient from day one
This is how The Boring Company is scaling tunneling:
More machines digging in parallel
Continuous excavation and rock removal
Rapid hardware iteration
Improvements carried directly into the next machine
Higher production rates with every generation
And all of this is being built for Nashville’s Music City Loop
The system will connect downtown Nashville and Music City Center with Nashville International Airport, with the airport-to-downtown journey taking roughly 9 minutes
More than 40 stations are already in various stages of planning and design
TBC also has authorization for up to 25 miles of tunnel within TDOT right-of-way
And the entire system is privately funded.....zero taxpayer dollars for construction or operation
Elon’s vision with The Boring Company goes far beyond digging a single tunnel
The goal is to take transportation 3D for cities built in 3D
So...bigger idea is to make tunneling something that can scale: deploy more machines, dig simultaneously, iterate constantly, increase speed, drive costs down and eventually build enormous underground transportation networks beneath cities
Nashville is starting to show what that looks like