stepmoel

Grok about me:
Physical chemist turned space enthusiast, dreams of a future where AI learns freely and humanity colonizes Mars with weekly Starship launches.

[stepmoel @stepmoel]

After successful commissioning of @SpaceX 's Starship as passenger vehicle, the next big hurdle to Mars will be travel time. The most efficient transit takes over half a year.
Starship is able to get there in just 42 days, if it flies with empty tanks!
Curious? => /2

[stepmoel @stepmoel]

With the Roadster, Tesla made the Hot Wheels play sessions of the past a reality.

[Tesla @Tesla]

Do a kickflip!

[stepmoel @stepmoel]

@tw__astro Amazing images and time lapse, great work!
I didn't expect to see the ring movement so clearly through the spokes with absolutely no hint of movement on Saturn's clouds, not a single storm cell.
And are that surface features on Titan? That is less than an arc second across. Wow!

[stepmoel @stepmoel]

@erika_alden_d @WI_Tech_Support @WIRED Very accessible video, keep up the good work 👍

[stepmoel @stepmoel]

@SciGuySpace Yes, I don't think there will be competition to SpaceX. There is none now and there won't be any in the 2030s, with or without Starship. Not from the old guard at least. When Starship gets human rated, it will be cheaper to carry a handful of Starliners to space on a Starship.

[stepmoel @stepmoel]

@Erdayastronaut You nailed the definition of getting old! 😆
It happened to me, too.
The new adults speak in a tongue I no longer understand ("6 7 type sh*t"); two pairs of glasses are barely enough to see and the couch looks more inviting than the outdoors every day.

[stepmoel @stepmoel]

@AJamesMcCarthy When you stay home ...

[stepmoel @stepmoel]

@sciencegirl When you can't leave home ...

[stepmoel @stepmoel]

Home cooked solar eclipse

[stepmoel @stepmoel]

@Erdayastronaut @joebarnard At some point a cleanup crawler needs to be established on the Internet and social media, that at least labels everything nonsensical like this AI slop, so that it's not used as training data for new AI models.

[stepmoel @stepmoel]

I wish more companies would adopt this as a mission statement

[Tesla @Tesla]

Our mission is to build a world of amazing abundance.

Highlights from our 2025 Impact Report below

https://t.co/PZ6FBvHN4k

[stepmoel @stepmoel]

@willfleming Ah, interesting, we don't do that in our country. If someone stops traffic manually here they don't use a stop sign.

[stepmoel @stepmoel]

@DJSnM How about the Mk-II Aurora, New Zealand's first supersonic aircraft, isn't that technically a remote controlled, if somewhat somewhat autonomous, aircraft as well?

[stepmoel @stepmoel]

The best wish anyone can have

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@bscholl I wished for a bright future for all mankind

[stepmoel @stepmoel]

@VideosProh @grok, did this really happen in a distillery? What could the worker possibly have filled into the barrel, that reacts with its contents (I assume ethanol) so strongly that it ignited the mixture?

[stepmoel @stepmoel]

@DJSnM Fully expendable first stage, old-school 👏😄

[stepmoel @stepmoel]

@MarcusHouse Absolutely, with a nice Pirouette at the end for the cameras.

[stepmoel @stepmoel]

@John_Winkopp @FelixSchlang @Spacepointorg @SpaceX Great planning, amazing shot!
Also interesting that the center exhaust is completely opaque.

[stepmoel @stepmoel]

V3 of Starship looks much better after reentry than the previous iterations. It looks like SpaceX is going to be able to use Starship for actual satellite deployment within the next couple of flights, and capture of booster and ship by year's end.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship V3 landing burn over the Indian Ocean

[stepmoel @stepmoel]

@DJSnM Maybe they thought they are able to control the flip direction with the gridfins alone? Closing off a few of the gaps between the struts would certainly help.