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Elon Musk: "When we went to the moon, we were supposed to have a base on the moon, we were supposed to send people to Mars. And that stuff just didn't happen. It went backwards. And we got the space shuttle, but the space shuttle could only go to low earth orbit, where a Saturn V could go to the moon. Now the space shuttle's gone. And so that just seemed like a really bad thing."

Elon Musk dance is 🔥.

Here's how Elon Musk found out Bill Gates has no basic physics. Gates showed up at Tesla Austin certain a long-range Semi could never work. Energy density? Efficiency? He didn't have a single number. Elon Musk: "You’d think that someone like Bill Gates, who clearly started a technology company that’s one of the biggest companies in the world Microsoft you’d think he’d be really quite strong in the sciences. But actually, at least from my direct conversations with him, he is not strong in the sciences. This was really surprising. He came to visit me at the Tesla Gigafactory in Austin and was telling me that it’s impossible to have a long-range semi-truck. And I was like, “Well, but we literally have them. And you can drive them. And Pepsi is literally using them right now. And you can drive them yourself or send someone. Obviously, Bill Gates is not going to drive it himself, but you can send a trusted person to drive the truck and verify that it can do the things that we say it’s doing.” And he’s like, “No, no, it doesn’t work. It doesn’t work.” And I’m like, “Okay.” I’m kind of stuck there. Then I was like, “Well, so it must be that you disagree with the watt-hours per kilogram of the battery pack. You must think that perhaps we can’t achieve the energy density of the battery pack, or that the watt-hours per mile of the truck is too high, and that when you combine those two numbers, the range is low. “And so, which one of those numbers do you think we have wrong, and what numbers do you think are correct?” And he didn’t know any of the numbers. And I’m like, “Well then, doesn’t it seem that it’s perhaps premature to conclude that a long-range semi cannot work if you do not know the energy density of the battery pack or the energy efficiency of the truck chassis?”

Kimbal Musk on his brother, Elon Musk: “I think Elon's actually quite reasonable. I think that when you're under so much pressure and really, there's an enormous amount of pressure, it's not that I'm the voice of reason, it's more like I'm helping Elon find his voice of reason, 'Let's slow down a little bit here. What do you think is the right thing to do?' And oftentimes, in 99% of the time, Elon does know what the right thing to do. It's just when you're under so much pressure you can do some silly things... But I think he's actually quite a reasonable person, it's just when you're under so much pressure, it's very hard for anyone to just calm the nervous system and just think about what's right thing to do here.”

Elon Musk and @Tesla_Optimus dance after the decisions from the Tesla shareholder meeting

The Elon Musk effect

There’s nothing like Starship, no rocket can carry 250+ tons, reach space, and return reusable. It’s beyond normal engineering, almost like alien tech. And this is just the beginning.

Raptor 3 drives Starship’s leap in rocket technology. It’s a massive step forward with no base heat shield needed, higher payload and efficiency, safer fuel handling, and a simpler, integrated design. These improvements bring us closer to a practical multiplanetary future.

Elon Musk: “I think this year it will be the case that you, from a technical standpoint, you'll be able to fall asleep in the Tesla and wake up at your destination."

KARDASHEV 2 IS THE REAL ENDGAME Most people still think the goal is just getting to Mars. That’s only the first step. Elon has been clear: the bigger picture is climbing the Kardashev scale. “Kardashev Scale 1: You’ve harnessed most of the energy of the planet. Kardashev Scale 2: You’ve harnessed most of the energy of your sun. Kardashev Scale 3: You’ve harnessed most of the energy of your galaxy.” Right now, humanity is barely on the board. “We’re only about 1% or a few percent of Kardashev Scale 1 right now, optimistically… The sun produces about a billion times more energy than everything on Earth combined.” That’s why Starship matters. You cannot become a Type 2 civilization with expendable rockets. You need cheap, fully reusable lift, orbital solar, compute in space, and the ability to move mass around the solar system at scale. Mars is the insurance policy. Starship is the vehicle. Kardashev 2 is the destination.

Elon Musk once explained why Tesla designed the Cybertruck with bulletproof stainless steel on the Jay Leno’s Garage show. 👇 Jay Leno: "Why does the Cybertruck need to be bulletproof?" Elon Musk: "Because it’s badass and super cool.🤣 Do you want your truck to be bulletproof or not? When the apocalypse comes, you’ll be glad it is. We want to be a leader in apocalypse technology."

Elon Musk: “Stocks go up and down, but what matters is making great products. Tesla products are outstanding. Last year, the Model Y sold 1.2 million units, the world’s best-selling car, despite being 50% more expensive than the next best selling vehicle. That’s a testament to the Tesla team.”

Next week will mark the first time that a purpose built Robotaxi (Cybercab) with no steering wheel or pedals that can be mass produced will offer rides to members of the general public in North America, and 99% of the population has zero clue this is about to happen.

Elon Musk reveals why, measured against the sun's energy, human civilization barely registers as existing at all: "Right now we're very low on the Kardashev one scale. If you say what proportion of our planet's power are we harnessing, it's a very, very tiny number. And we're harnessing almost nothing of our star's power. The sun is truly an immense thing. It's difficult with words to characterize just how immense the sun is" "The sun is about 99.86% of all mass in the solar system. Most of the remaining 0.14% is Jupiter. The entire mass of Earth is in the tiny miscellaneous category. Earth is a tiny dust mote compared to the sun" "We currently use much less than a trillionth of the power output of the sun, and a trillion is a million times a million. So basically we're practically nowhere on the Kardashev two scale. On the Kardashev scale, we're still non-existent. We're not registering"

Elon Musk is bringing the future to a reality.

To me this is the second half of Terafab. The plant is one terawatt of silicon a year on the ground. The satellites are where that silicon goes to work. Orbit has the sunlight and the room. Earth does not. "Space is really the source of immense power and then you don't need to take up any room on Earth." -- Elon Musk xitter.cf/joehansen/status/20938…

ELON MUSK: “Turbines are sold out through 2030. In order to bring enough power online, SpaceX and Tesla will probably have to make the turbine blades and vanes internally. There are only three casting companies in the world that make these, and they’re massively backlogged.”

Starship is designed to completely change the economics of space It is unlike anything humanity has ever built before The amount of engineering SpaceX has packed into this machine is insane... constantly pushing closer to the limits of what physics allows Everything around Starship is built for insane scale: payload, reusability, launch cadence, propellant, orbital infrastructure, the Moon, and Mars Anything humanity wants to build at serious scale in space eventually comes back to one machine that makes it possible: Starship This is the kind of scale humanity used to only imagine Everything changes when you realize Starship is no longer just a “rocket” It starts to look like a transportation system built for an entire civilization

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy is standing at Pad 39A for Sunday’s launch of NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Target: 7:26 a.m. ET. The observatory will study dark energy, dark matter, and exoplanets from Sun-Earth L2