2020-08

@TeslaTested That’s an error in Canada. The lease payment is specifically lower than loan financing, as Tesla expects to repossess the car. This is essentially a bet on residual value. If you believe residual value will rise, buy on loan, if you think it will drop, then lease.

@engineers_feed This is how we make Falcon 9

@Teslarati Aiming to make it super fun!

@l_vaux @kulpability @tlowdon @EthicalSkeptic People are extremely unlikely to die of Covid/sars-cov2 alone. If you have multiple pre-existing health conditions & a weak immune system, then you have significant mortality risk from many diseases (not just Covid/sars-cov2) that would otherwise have minor effect.

@Erdayastronaut @nextspaceflight I don’t want be cavalier, but there isn’t an obvious limit. 100+ flights are possible. Some parts will need to be replaced or upgraded. Cleaning all 9 Merlin turbines is difficult. Raptor is way easier in this regard, despite being a far more complex engine.

@jwangARK Humans are swiftly becoming a small percentage of total compute

@davidgokhshtein Yes

@Teslarati A little toastier each flight

@flcnhvy @teslaownersSV Exactly

@PPathole @TrevorMahlmann @arstechnica We’ll do several short hops to smooth out launch process, then go high altitude with body flaps

@Teslarati This is gonna be great

@waitbutwhy Space is the new air

Neuralink product demo in 3 hours. Webcast at https://t.co/Y9wREd78oj.

@KenKirtland17 @torybruno @ulalaunch @SpaceX @blueorigin @Erdayastronaut @DJSnM @ThePrimalDino Starship fairing will actually have more height than shown here. Dome will be flatter & more of tip is accessible. Usable volume ~1000 cubic meters.

@PPathole @tlowdon @EthicalSkeptic Yeah

@GerberKawasaki @Tesla Thanks to a smart and hardworking team at Tesla. These sure are wild times …

@ICannot_Enough @flcnhvy @Tesla Autopilot was trapped in a local maximum, labeling single camera images uncorrelated in time. Now, it is not.

@Teslarati Tesla brake lights are powered by a miniverse inside a microverse https://t.co/aduoTl537T

@Lindw0rm @cleantechnica Highly likely down the road

@TrevorMahlmann @arstechnica V1.1 legs will be ~60% longer. V2.0 legs will be much wider & taller — like Falcon, but capable of landing on unimproved surfaces & auto-leveling.

Good piece on Giga Berlin construction

Bureaucracy is inherently kafkaesque

@flcnhvy @ICannot_Enough @Tesla This is out of our hands, so hard to predict. Maybe on order of 10 billion km of real world driving will be enough to convince regulators.

@ebelardo73 @bluemoondance74 @TrevorMahlmann @arstechnica Soon

@pantsbobsponge @andyjstanton @TimFernholz You are correct. This is a substantial underpayment compared to what ULA has received.

@stoolpresidente H2O, CH4/CO2, N2, iron, nickel, chrome, aluminum (not necessarily in that order) will matter far more than gold or platinum for space travel

@realwillreil @GiulioCoraggio 🤣🤣 hasty govt 🤣🤣

@WholeMarsBlog @ajtourville @comma_ai @Tesmanian_com Yes

@Erdayastronaut Not sure yet, but hopefully. Will need leg & other repairs. Probably SN6 flies before SN5. We need to make flights simple & easy — many per day.

https://t.co/Bki5SOOroe

@Teslarati Tesla Germany designed & built the vaccine RNA printers for CureVac, but, subject to some CureVac IP, they could be made for other companies too

@flcnhvy Giant gap between experimental medical device for use only in patients with extreme medical problems & widespread consumer use. This is way harder than making a small number of prototypes.

@PPathole Asimov was 🔥🔥

@FutureJurvetson @SpaceX This seems increasingly likely

More fun games coming soon to ur Tesla

@Erdayastronaut @SpaceX However, we did prove that a SuperDraco landing could work by doing a propulsive hover https://t.co/Mr7VFIQwWf

@Erdayastronaut The FSD improvement will come as a quantum leap, because it’s a fundamental architectural rewrite, not an incremental tweak. I drive the bleeding edge alpha build in my car personally. Almost at zero interventions between home & work. Limited public release in 6 to 10 weeks.

@CowderySedge @tbdnonymous Very real possibility

@tesla_addicted @Erdayastronaut No & not possible at this scale

@Erdayastronaut Impressive

“All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.” E Rutherford

@cleantechnica True fact

A truly useful exaflop at de facto FP32

Raptor engine just reached 330 bar chamber pressure without exploding! https://t.co/kVKRWksvaB

@waitbutwhy Now I want candy

@kulpability @tlowdon @EthicalSkeptic One person at Tesla (out of 60,000) was hospitalized in serious condition (he caught cov2 at home, not work), no deaths. I called his wife & Hayward hospital to make sure he was getting the right treatment, but which he was.

@Erdayastronaut @SpaceX All correct. Parachutes were originally the backup landing system, with SuperDraco thrusters as primary. Difficulty of proving thruster landing safety *and* architecture being suboptimal for moon/Mars caused us to change focus to parachutes.

@GerberKawasaki Wow, I super loved astronomy (but took it at Queens, not Penn)! Definitely one of my favorite classes. Senior year quantum mechanics at Penn was the hardest class I ever took. That stuff will mess with your mind.

@flcnhvy Same hex tiles, slightly different mounting method. Need bigger sections of tiles to see how they hold up with cryo shrinkage, pressure expansion & body bending.

@engineers_feed Tbh, I must confess to occasionally pontificating about high-concept things