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@justpaulinelol It’s too embarrassing

Just learned that my physics prof from Penn is head of Fermilab & still has some of my old homework ☺️

@ruskin147 It is unfortunately common for many in academia to overweight the value of ideas & underweight bringing them to fruition. For example, the idea of going to the moon is trivial, but going to the moon is hard.

@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.

@PPathole @kulpability @tlowdon @EthicalSkeptic That & Giga Berlin are why I’m headed to Germany this week. Conversations with Harvard epidemiology confirmed that a high-speed RNA printer has potential be helpful for vaccines & cures in many areas.

@tlowdon @EthicalSkeptic Antibody half-life for cov2 is very short. In a study that SpaceX did working with Harvard epidemiology, it appears to be as low as 2 or 3 weeks. Nonetheless, reinfection rates are very low & symptoms are minor, perhaps due to memory T cells https://t.co/z9WlvIjoTw

@PPathole @tlowdon @EthicalSkeptic Yeah

@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.

@tlowdon @EthicalSkeptic Some of the tests we initially tried at Tesla were ~50% false positive, including some from major medical device companies. Too many testing methods were approved too quickly. Wouldn’t blame the FDA, though. Public was demanding fast test approval.

@WholeMarsBlog @MarcusHouseGame @Neopork85 @SpaceX @Erdayastronaut @SpaceToday1 @ElonsWorld @FelixSchlang @ChrisG_NSF @DJSnM Not yet

@MarcusHouseGame @Neopork85 @SpaceX @Erdayastronaut @SpaceToday1 @ElonsWorld @FelixSchlang @ChrisG_NSF @DJSnM Yes. This is the hardest part of the booster design.

@ICannot_Enough People read too much into this level of detail. It’s not useful for predicting the future, nor can we ourselves accurately predict what issues we will encounter on a short-term, fine-grained level.

@ICannot_Enough Critical feedback is always appreciated btw

@biogirl09 @JaneidyEve @Tesmanian_com @SpaceX We can’t have a blanket pass, but maybe for some events

@Neopork85 @SpaceX @MarcusHouseGame @Erdayastronaut @SpaceToday1 @ElonsWorld @FelixSchlang @ChrisG_NSF @DJSnM Booster design has shifted to four legs with a wider stance (to avoid engine plume impingement in vacuum), rather than six

@flcnhvy @PPathole @ID_AA_Carmack Later versions of a larger device would have that potential

@EvaFoxU @waitbutwhy Yup

@PPathole @ID_AA_Carmack Actually C, although the syntax could be improved esthetically

@ID_AA_Carmack I like C, because it avoids class warfare

@PPathole @IEEESpectrum @neuralink A nightcap would probably work best