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A positive & focused attitude, the determination to push through challenges, & the ability to think innovatively = the conditions to achieve great outcomes

[🧔🏻 @alphaprestige_]

Happy birthday!

[IBM @IBM]

We turn 115 today! 🥰

Say happy birthday 😠

[🧔🏻 @alphaprestige_]

@policylaila @elonmusk Let’s hope their security features are actually secure!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@cb_doge Community Note is funny 😂

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@pmarca Yeah, it makes no sense. Some companies or individuals are behind this and pulling the strings.

[🧔🏻 @alphaprestige_]

@elonmusk @Stocktwits Man, wish I prepared earlier

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@jreichelt Legal action is being taken against ZDF for their outrageous lies

[Sam @DigitalSamIAm]

Can we debunk this nonsense?

Elon Musk was awarded (note: not given) cost-per-result contracts to perform a service for the US government. The total of those for SpaceX specifically is ~$22B, which includes repaid loans, state tax incentives, etc.

The deal was simple: put stuff into LEO at or below a set cost. If SpaceX does it below the set cost, SpaceX keeps the difference. If it doesn’t, the company is responsible for the overrun.

End result? SpaceX & Elon lowered the cost of getting 1 kg into LEO by 95-97% vs what NASA was paying previously.

And for the record, every other company around at the time was offered the same opportunity to bid on the contract - Musk/SpaceX just took it.

The handout narrative implies the taxpayer is the patron and SpaceX the dependent. The cost data shows the opposite: before SpaceX, NASA paid Russia’s Soyuz $80-86M per seat; SpaceX delivered at ~$55 million. SpaceX saved the US taxpayer $300M-$465M each year on that alone (the US sends 12-15 astronauts to space each year)

On the lunar lander, NASA estimated SpaceX’s fixed-price bid saved $20B-$30B vs the Boeing-preferred cost-plus approach.

So: SpaceX saved the US taxpayer more than the total value of contracts it earned on a single project, PLUS provided the US government with the requested services (put stuff in LEO) at the best possible price.

[🧔🏻 @alphaprestige_]

@elonmusk @TimRunsHisMouth Most likely

[🧔🏻 @alphaprestige_]

Wtf!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@BasilTheGreat Terrible

[🧔🏻 @alphaprestige_]

This example should motivate us to cultivate adaptability, resourcefulness, and strong social bonds. The future may unfold in ways we cannot predict.

[🧔🏻 @alphaprestige_]

@elonmusk @AustinJustice ‼️

[Reddit Lies @reddit_lies]

Daily reminder that Redditors "debunked" Starlink as "impossible" 8 years ago.

Just in case you start thinking a phone scratcher has a better mental model of thermodynamics than SpaceX engineers.

[Gopuff @gopuff]

Meet Go. Gopuff's AI shopping genius, co-developed with SpaceXAI. Just say what you need. It's already on its way.

[🧔🏻 @alphaprestige_]

That’s why we united the states. The ones that are floating away into the deep ocean need to be pulled back in- they’re spray at the point of no return!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@TheAliceSmith No

[🧔🏻 @alphaprestige_]

Africa’s poverty is caused similar to Puerto Rico’s

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

It wasn’t.

With rare exception, colonies were unprofitable, meaning more was spent building infrastructure like roads, railways, buildings, etc. than was exported.

And look at places like Singapore and Hong Kong. Both were colonies for a long time and yet they are extremely prosperous.

[🧔🏻 @alphaprestige_]

@SpaceX @elonmusk @Starlink Beautiful

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@AJamesMcCarthy Read books, talk to people & iterate rapidly with hardware & software