Good way to frame it.
Also, if even one person had died, we would know who they were!
Not one person has died from stopping waste & fraud at USAID! Obviously.
Elon Musk:
“You don’t need college to learn stuff. Everything is available basically for free. You can learn anything you want for free. It is not a question of learning.”
Hourly Starship flights would mean SpaceX’s mass to orbit could be about 100 times more than everyone else combined.
Even if they triple their current launch rate.
A very polite way of saying the scoreboard may need a new scoreboard.
SpaceX already delivered 556,057 kg of satellites to orbit in Q1 2026.
The entire global total was 647,412 kg.
So the gap is already doing push-ups.
Now add hourly Starship flights.
At that point, launch capacity stops being the bottleneck.
Everyone else becomes the footnote. A very small footnote.
@SpaceX / Writer: Annette, Designer: Janné
Elon Musk: "In the natural extension of the environmentalist movement, if you go too far, you start to look at humanity as a bad thing. You start to look at humanity as though we are a plague on the surface of the earth.
And in fact, there are some people who think and say explicitly that,
On the front page of the New York Times, there was a guy who said: there are 8 billion people on earth, it would be better if there were none. Which is crazy."
Elon Musk: "I think if we operate with extreme urgency, then we have a chance of making life multi-planetary. It’s still just a chance, not for sure. If we don’t act with extreme urgency, that chance is probably zero
The rate of innovation is not going to be constant; it’s either going to increase or it’s going to slow down. If you look at American access to space with a crew, we were able to go to the moon in ’69. Then with the Space Shuttle, we could only go to low Earth orbit. Then the Space Shuttle retired, and for almost a decade, America had no access to space with people
So this is a pretty bad trend, it's trending to zero. We need a very strong trend in the other direction in order to have any chance whatsoever of making life multiplanetary. So that's the reason for the extreme sense of urgency."
🇺🇸 While governments and Big Tech increasingly use “misinformation” as an excuse to silence voices they don’t like… Elon dropped this:
"Free speech is the foundation of democracy"
Without freedom of speech and the free flow of information, people cannot make informed decisions at the ballot box.
If you do not have freedom of speech, you cannot have a democracy, because the public cannot make an informed decision about their vote if there is no freedom of information.”
Writer: Val
I once reported on how great Wikipedia was.
Now, it’s FULL of propaganda.
That’s a big problem because its bad information corrupts AI and search results:
@npovmedia@AshleyRindsberg