2021-07-31

@cmuratori @ID_AA_Carmack Replacement rate is 2.1, so roughly 31 generations, but let’s try to avoid this!

@Sluigi123 It really is all about the journey!

@arctechinc We are doing releases every 2 weeks on Friday at midnight California time

@Model3Owners 370 tons

@doge_southern @truth_tesla @ConsumerReports They do

@truth_tesla @ConsumerReports Reason we hustled so much to get Autopilot V1 out was that someone driving non-Autopilot Tesla fell asleep, crashed & killed cyclist (Tesla driver was uninjured). Driver nonetheless sued us saying new car smell made him fall asleep (sigh). Judge didn’t agree.

@DavidNagySFgang @rocketry_catboy Indeed. Grid fin designs clearly work, but do they maximize payload? Good chance that they do not. Something with much more drag to reduce terminal velocity & so reduce landing propellant might have better performance. Not sure. Potential future optimization.

@WholeMarsBlog The Tesla AI predictions are swiftly becoming superhuman – its guesses for what it can’t see well feel like ESP. It has a vastly larger training set than any human & thinks only about driving.

@WholeMarsBlog There is always a lot of cleanup after a major code release. Beta 9.2 will be tight. Still some fundamentals to solve for Beta 10, but now that we’re pure vision, progress is much faster. Radar was holding us back.

@alandail @nextspaceflight Will post once we have a decent simulation. Our first design will probably be far from the bullseye.

@nextspaceflight Stage Zero, which is everything needed to launch & catch the rocket, is at least as hard as the booster or ship

@WDWSpeakers @WholeMarsBlog PC desktop with latest graphics card, although I have a Mac too. Gigabyte laptop.

@rhensing @arctechinc Two weeks (actually)

@EliBurton_ Yup

@ErcXspace @SpacePadreIsle @Erdayastronaut A wheel of cheese

@ErcXspace @SpacePadreIsle @Erdayastronaut Yes

Snatched from the sky by Mechazilla

https://t.co/bCgBY8Iv5n

@Erdayastronaut @SpaceX Hadn’t showered in several days. We are going hardcore with Starbase Surge.

@edjomko @SamTwits It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

@SawyerMerritt Tesla policy is never to give in to false claims, even if we would lose, and never to fight true claims, even if we would win.

@SawyerMerritt If we are wrong, we are wrong. In this case, we were.

@doge_southern @markgurman @tim_cook Yeah, Liftoff is solid

@MarcusHouse !!