samcanopus

simplify complexity

[Christopher Stanley @cstanley]

I took this photo on my first day at SpaceX, nearly a decade ago.

It is hard to put into words how much this company has changed my life. From the early days before Starlink was built, to the first Starship launch, the Twitter acquisition, DOGE, xAI, and now SpaceX going public, I feel incredibly grateful to have contributed to such an amazing mission.

I had the opportunity to be involved in something much bigger than myself, something that genuinely pushes the world and humanity forward.

To everyone who built this company, believed in the mission, and gave so much of themselves to make this possible, thank you. I will always be grateful to have been a small part of it.

I fucking love this company from the bottom of my heart.

$SPCX

[samcanopus @samcanopus]

This is pretty typical of many corporate types!!😁😁

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

> you’ll never start a rocket company
> you’ll never build your own engines
> you’ll never be able to use off-the-shelf parts
> you’ll never survive three launch failures
> you’ll never reach orbit
> you’ll never win NASA’s trust
> you’ll never launch cargo to the ISS
> you’ll never compete with Boeing
> you’ll never compete with Lockheed
> you’ll never make rockets reusable
> you’ll never land a rocket vertically
> you’ll never land one on a drone ship
> you’ll never reuse a booster
> you’ll never fly the same booster 10 times
> you’ll never fly the same booster 20 times
> you’ll never fly the same booster 30 times
> you’ll never recover and reuse the fairing
> you’ll never lower launch costs
> you’ll never launch every month
> you’ll never launch every week
> you’ll never launch multiple times a week
> you’ll never carry astronauts
> you’ll never replace Roscosmos
> you’ll never fly civilians to orbit
> you’ll never manufacture satellites at scale
> you’ll never build the biggest constellation ever
> you’ll never make satellite internet work
> you’ll never make satellite internet fast
> you’ll never make satellite internet affordable
> you’ll never serve rural customers
> you’ll never serve aircraft and ships
> you’ll never build a methane rocket engine
> you’ll never make full-flow staged combustion work
> you’ll never build the most powerful rocket ever
> you’ll never build a rocket bigger than Saturn V
> you’ll never build it out of stainless steel
> you’ll never launch Starship
> you’ll never separate Super Heavy and Starship
> you’ll never relight Raptor in space
> you’ll never bring Super Heavy back
> you’ll never catch a booster with Mechazilla tower arms
> you’ll never launch 85% of mass to orbit worldwide
> you’ll never change the economics of space
> you’ll never force the entire industry to copy you
> you’ll never win
> you’ll never IPO

Congratulations to @elonmusk and the SpaceX team. You did what countless people said was impossible, and you did it time and time again.

Today is your day. You deserve this. May it be a glorious one.

[samcanopus @samcanopus]

(of hundreds of millions of humans - statistically large enough to reflect emotions of all humans on planet earth ) instead of data lakes then it is reasonable for us to expect that it has such emotions that can’t be discerned by models

[samcanopus @samcanopus]

Not sure why this is so surprising considering AI was trained on human interaction in textual form …hence it reflects human emotions such as fear, joy etc ….if the underlying data set was a data ocean (1/n)

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Elon Musk on how ridiculously small we are compared to the Sun:

“We are like a dust mote compared to the Sun

All of human civilization currently uses much less than a trillionth of the power emitted by the Sun

Even if we increased our energy use by a million times, we would still be much less than a millionth of the Sun’s energy

The Sun is 99.8% of the mass in the solar system. If you burned every single other planet and added two more Jupiters, the Sun would still round up to 100% of the energy in the solar system

Everything is just extremely tiny compared to the Sun”

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

You don't realize how massive Starship actually is. The engineering is absolutely insane

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🇺🇸🇺🇸 This will be awesome!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

Thank you. The important part is zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. Best way to put money in someone’s pocket is to not take it out in the first place. Bottom half is only 3% of total tax revenue. But it’s very meaningful to that person. Zero it out.

[Daniel S. Loeb @DanielSLoeb1]

@NYCMayor stirring up class warfare and doxing one of the city’s biggest employers whose employees contribute billions in taxes. Note his demonic expression. Our theater kid Mayor about to learn some cruel laws of economics: you can’t tax a city into prosperity and you don’t attract capital by demonizing philanthropists who can take their investment and employees elsewhere.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says recent Israeli strikes in Lebanon are "disgusting", including 100 attacks in the span of only ten minutes on Wednesday.

Olmert says while Hezbollah needs to be targeted to ensure the safety of Israel, the cost to civilian lives must also be minimised.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Tucker Carlson said something raw that cuts straight to the heart of marriage:

“A wife who won’t stand by you in turmoil is hell on earth.”

He says the real test of a marriage isn’t the good times — it’s when the husband loses his job, gets attacked, or things go wrong. That’s when you discover what your wife is truly made of.

His blunt truth: the deepest desire of every man is to have his wife standing beside him. A wife who believes in you gives you strength, and that belief is often the key to success in life.

It’s uncomfortable… but it rings true.

Married guys — has a moment of crisis ever shown you exactly what your marriage (and your wife) is made of?