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Pauline 🚀
@justpaulinelol · Oct 1, 2019
Will there be another test flight after the ~20km flight? Or directly to orbit after this?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Oct 1, 2019
If 20km works, then orbit
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Keith Mansfield📚🚀✨
@KeithMansfield · Oct 1, 2019
Great questions Tim. A piece on the presentation including existential risk and the Fermi paradox “Starship: Elon Musk’s Space Railroad” by Keith link.medium.com/bQ2Ekrt2q0
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Oct 1, 2019
Great summary of the key points!
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Oz Maliphant ☀️⚡️🚗🚀🛰🌍💚
@OzMaliphant · Oct 1, 2019
I assume;
Thiner,
lighter,
uniform,
easier to inspect,
easier to attach / swap.
Sensors in each tile conceivably?
Has to be super fast to check and turn around, but reliable enough for human flight.
Have we even had confirmation of what they are made from?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Oct 1, 2019
That’s about right, except no sensors. Tile itself is the sensor as it will partially ablate where too hot & have to be replaced.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Oct 1, 2019
Raptor cost is tracking to well under $1M for V1.0. Goal is <$250k for V2.0 is a 250 ton thrust-optimized engine, ie <$1000/ton
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Oct 1, 2019
It’s all the “secondary” structure that concerns me, not engines & primary airframe
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Oct 1, 2019
Replying to @AngelNDevil2
Raptor cost is tracking to well under $1M for V1.0. Goal is <$250k for V2.0 is a 250 ton thrust-optimized engine, ie <$1000/ton
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Johnna
@JohnnaCrider1 · Oct 1, 2019
420 likes on @elonmusk and his meme twin.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Oct 1, 2019
Stop sending me this 💩 🤣🤣
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Pope of Muskanity
@RationalEtienne · Oct 1, 2019
Dear Tesla community. You're the best! ♥️
–Pope Etienne "the humble" I of Muskanity 🙏
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Oct 1, 2019
Agreed & such a heartwarming photo ♥️
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K10✨
@Kristennetten · Oct 1, 2019
@elonmusk @SS4Adrian
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Oct 1, 2019
I have that exact thought every time I get the flu
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Adrian Assman
@AdrianAssman · Sep 30, 2019
What kind of monster would invent this?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Oct 1, 2019
Clearly a sign of the apocalypse!
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Oct 1, 2019
Thankfully not. FSW is very difficult to get right & not needed with steel.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Oct 1, 2019
Lot of ways to melt & join steel. Mostly just needs to be welded consistently & with precise parts.
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World of Engineering
@engineers_feed · Oct 1, 2019
What kind of welding? FSW?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Oct 1, 2019
Thankfully not. FSW is very difficult to get right & not needed with steel.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Oct 1, 2019
Inside Starship cargo bay. Header tanks mounted in tip of nosecone to offset engine weight at rear.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Oct 1, 2019
Production version will be a lot more polished than this prototype, but still fun to see
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Colin Pearce
@ColinPearceUK · Oct 1, 2019
Ahh so that’s how you keep the centre-of-mass forward enough so the rocket is stable *takes notes for Kerbal space program*
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Oct 1, 2019
Bigger flaps/fins at rear also moves center of pressure back
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📸Trevor Mahlmann🚀
@TrevorMahlmann · Oct 1, 2019
Find someone who smiles/looks at you the way @elonmusk does when he talks about 301 stainless steel🚀
My full starship presentation photo gallery: tmahlmann.com/photos/Rockets…
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Oct 1, 2019
Haha yes
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Harry Stoltz
@HarryStoltz1 · Oct 1, 2019
...what kinds of trickle-down technologies could you see impacting people here on earth?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Oct 1, 2019
In solving for a good Mars climate, we will learn a great deal about how to do so on Earth. It is the inverse problem.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Oct 1, 2019
Inside Starship cargo bay. Header tanks mounted in tip of nosecone to offset engine weight at rear.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Oct 1, 2019
Replying to @EvaFox
Cool video!
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JC
@OneKapitalist · Sep 27, 2019
Looks like Tesla's release of Smart Summon will result in word-of-mouth marketing worth billions of dollars.
Could start to see the company go back into supply-constrained mode soon, even before the Y.
Congrats team @Tesla, @elonmusk, @karpathy!
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Sep 30, 2019
Probably our most viral feature ever. Most of the Autopilot team has been working on this, led by Ashok, CJ, Andrej & many others.
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SP 🍉
@S_Padival · Sep 30, 2019
Then why is your media company so anti-@tesla? 🤔
@elonmusk even commented on it @ shrhldr meet. I have seen enough evidence to conclude that @business is actively encouraging its reporters like @liamdenning , @josheidelson , @danahull & @ZekeFaux to write hit pieces on $TSLA
Mike Bloomberg@MikeBloomberg· Sep 30, 2019Too many politicians aren’t interested in hard science — they are interested in political science.
Our message to them: Face reality on climate change, or face the music on Election Day.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Sep 30, 2019
Good question
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Jack Beyer
@thejackbeyer · Sep 29, 2019
@elonmusk inspecting his ship and climbing inside with a camera crew. He looks delighted.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Sep 29, 2019
😀
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