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Aug 26, 2020

SpaceX: Elon Musk explains why we’ll go to Mars from ocean spaceports

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, energy, satellites

During a Twitter conversation about the future of space travel, the SpaceX CEO confirmed that the Starship vehicle and the Super Heavy booster used to lift it away from Earth will “will mostly launch from ocean spaceports long-term.” Musk later clarified that “occasional flights from land are ok, but frequent (daily) flights probably need ~30km / 18 miles clear area for noise.”

The comments illuminate SpaceX’s thinking around the Starship, which is designed to transport up to 150 tons, or 100 people, into space at a time. The reusable ship measures some 400 feet when paired with its booster. It is expected to take on missions currently completed by the existing Falcon 9 satellite launches, and to enable more ambitious missions, like crewed trips to the Moon and Mars. Its use of liquid oxygen and methane fuel means a crew could feasibly visit Mars, harvest resources from the planet to refuel, and either return home or perhaps venture even furthe.


SpaceX is planning to put its Starship launch pads somewhere in the ocean, far away from city centers.

Aug 25, 2020

A Tesla Electric Jet? Elon Musk Says 400Wh/kg Battery Volume Production Possible in 3–4 Years

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel, sustainability

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has updated the timeline on which he sees batteries enabling electric aircraft coming to maket. He now sees it happening in “3 to 4 years.” Several years ago, Musk, the CEO of both Tesla and SpaceX, said that he had a design for electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) a…


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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been talking about the electric plane for a long time. He even said he has an electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft project, though he never went into details about plans to launch it into production.

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Aug 25, 2020

Tesla’s Elon Musk says that batteries enabling electric aircraft are coming in ‘3 to 4 years’

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, transportation

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has updated the timeline on which he sees batteries enabling electric aircraft coming to maket. He now sees it happening in “3 to 4 years.”

Aug 24, 2020

Neuralink Brain Chip Update: Elon Musk Says Neurons Will Fire Up in Real-Time on August 28

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI

Elon Musk’s Neuralink will have an event on August 28 to update the public on the company’s progress since last year’s launch.

According to a Teslarati, Musk posted some updates in July regarding the advising about the event of the brain-machine interface company. On July 9, he tweeted that a progress update will happen on August 28. The following day, he posted: “AI symbiosis while u wait.” The event is expected to have a live stream on social media platforms.


Let’s watch “neurons firing” in real time.

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Aug 24, 2020

Elon Musk to unveil Neuralink progress with real-time neuron demonstration this week

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, neuroscience

Elon Musk’s brain-machine interface company, Neuralink, has an event scheduled for later this week to update the public on its progress since last year’s presentation. While the agenda is speculative for the most part, one expectation is a live demonstration of neuron activity.

“Will show neurons firing in real-time on August 28th. The matrix in the matrix,” Musk tweeted at the end of July.

He also revealed a few other clues about the early fall announcement at the beginning of the year. “Wait until you see the next version vs what was presented last year. It’s *awesome*,” he wrote in February. “The profound impact of high bandwidth, high precision neural interfaces is underappreciated. Neuralink may have this in a human as soon as this year. Just needs to be unequivocally better than Utah Array, which is already in some humans & has severe drawbacks.”

Aug 22, 2020

SpaceX founder Elon Musk shared a video showing a recovery boat in the Atlantic Ocean catching one half of the reusable payload shroud flown on a Falcon 9 rocket launch Tuesday

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

See more imagery from Tuesday’s Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral:

Aug 22, 2020

Ten Billionaires, Led By Elon Musk, Dan Gilbert And Jeff Bezos, Got $53 Billion Richer This Week

Posted by in categories: economics, Elon Musk

Stocks behind the fortunes of the world’s richest people are still hitting all-time highs despite malaise around the broader economy.

Aug 20, 2020

Tesla cars are going to play elevator music through external speaker because Elon Musk likes it

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, media & arts, sustainability, transportation

Tesla vehicles are equipped with extrernal speakers.

The main function is to output a pedestrian warning sound, which has become required for electric vehicles in many markets due to the fact that they are quiet at low speeds.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been playing around with ideas on how to release other features that take advantage of the fact that the vehicles are now equipped with external speakers.

Aug 20, 2020

SpaceX is now a $46 billion ‘unicorn’

Posted by in categories: business, Elon Musk, space travel

SpaceX, the Elon Musk-led company that recently became the first business in history to send astronauts into Earth’s orbit, is parlaying its successes into big money.

Aug 20, 2020

Your Brain, With a USB Port in It: Musk’s Neuralink Update Likely to…

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, neuroscience

A leading expert in socially responsible technology innovation Dr Andrew Maynard told us “I think Musk’s overreaching and he probably knows it.

”That said, Elon Musk has got a track record of doing things that other people said can’t be done. So I think that this is going to be an interesting space because of that… [But] I think we’re a long way from understanding how this works.

”Even with Elon Musk’s system you have around ten thousand electrodes. There are billions of neurons in your brain. It’s a needle in a haystack”.