No highlights today. Visiting my mom. (:
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Elon Musk says TF12 in four weeks:
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I’m a member and watch him every week. Fascinating watching history being made.
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Are you on the waitlist for SpaceX IPO?
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I was greatly inspired by the first booster catch.
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Grok:
- Elon Musk’s post announces the first flight of Starship Version 3 (V3) in early April 2026 from Starbase, Texas, as Flight 12, featuring a hype video montage of prior launches, engine tests, and orbital views that has garnered over 114,000 likes and 44 million views in under 24 hours.
- Starship V3 upgrades include 42 lighter Raptor V3 engines—3D-printed with integrated cryogenic cooling to eliminate heavy heat shields and fire suppression—boosting payload capacity from 15 tons in V1 to 100 tons, enabling cheaper reusable spaceflight per peer-reviewed analyses in Acta Astronautica on reusable rocket economics.
- Reactions highlight excitement for accelerated cadence post-V3 debut, with users sharing memes, prior launch clips, and visions of orbital infrastructure like GPU deployments, underscoring Starship’s role in multi-planetary goals amid ongoing FAA approvals.
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The largest IPO in history hangs in the balance as Elon Musk tries to reorganize SpaceX due to bad hiring decisions by xAI.
Meanwhile as one of the people rejected by xAI who is doing actual work with Codex that may well end up affecting the lives of software engineers in a major company, because I had to get money to continue my work on what I would have done at xAI:
Elon Musk’s concern about plummeting fertility rates is addressed by the same strategy that would have made his IPO more secure. His parasite problem has likely overwhelmed him.
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