Elon Musk: “People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves. It does not automatically improve. It only improves if a lot of people work very hard to make it better.
If you look at the progress in space, in 1969, we're able to send somebody to the moon. Then we had the space shuttle. The space shuttle could only take people to low Earth orbit. Then the space shuttle retired, and the United States could take no one to orbit. So that's the trend. The trend is like, down to nothing.
You look at great civilizations like ancient Egypt, and they were able to make the pyramids, and they forgot how to do that. And the Romans, they built these incredible aqueducts—they forgot how to do it."
ELON MUSK: "I have a company called The Boring Company, which sounds boring, but it literally bore tunnels to solve traffic.
We've already done this proof of concept in Vegas. There are working tunnels, like teleporting from one point to another. Tunnels are underappreciated."
@XFreeze Connectivity per sat will be more like 10Tb in both directions and there is a path to 100+Tb.
Each sat is 250kW and will have a SpaceX-designed Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 computer.
Thousands of individual heat shield tiles, installed and inspected one by one.
Every tile matters. Every interface matters. There’s no shortcut to flight ready hardware.
This is the kind of meticulous engineering that turns Starship from a prototype into a reusable spacecraft.