In case your curious. youtu.be/kp9CxlQmTg4?si=JAK-…

Star Factory 8 cent tour youtu.be/kp9CxlQmTg4?si=JAK-… via @YouTube

LET'S EDUCATE PEOPLE WITH ACTUAL NUMBERS.... The media loves headlines about @elonmusk becoming a "trillionaire." But most people don't understand what that number actually means. Let's break it down. If Elon Musk is worth roughly $1 trillion on paper: ❌ It does NOT mean he has $1 trillion in cash. ❌ It does NOT mean he can spend $1 trillion tomorrow. ❌ It does NOT mean the government could simply seize $1 trillion and spend it. Most of that wealth exists as ownership in companies. Think about it this way: If your home is worth $500,000, you don't have $500,000 sitting in your bank account. You own an asset. The same principle applies to company shares. Now let's compare some numbers. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT The U.S. federal government spends roughly $7 trillion per year. Even if Elon somehow sold every share he owned tomorrow and turned it all into cash (which is impossible), that money would fund Washington's spending for only about 7 weeks. Read that again. 7 weeks. Not years. Not decades. 7 weeks. ELON'S 2021 TAX BILL In 2021 Elon paid approximately $11 billion in federal taxes. The median American household pays around $2,000-$5,000 annually in federal income taxes depending on income and family situation. To equal Elon's $11 billion tax bill, you'd need roughly: ✅ 2.2 million households paying $5,000 each OR ✅ 5.5 million households paying $2,000 each That's more households than exist in many U.S. states. JOB CREATION Tesla employs over 120,000 people globally. SpaceX employs more than 15,000 people. X, xAI, Neuralink, and Musk's other companies employ thousands more. Directly and indirectly, Musk's companies support hundreds of thousands of jobs. ✅ Those workers pay taxes. ✅ Buy homes. ✅ Support local businesses. ✅ Raise families. That's how wealth circulates through an economy. WHAT ABOUT "TAX THE BILLIONAIRES"? Let's do the math. The U.S. national debt is now over $40 trillion. Suppose the government somehow confiscated an entire $1 trillion fortune. That would eliminate only about: 2.5% of the national debt. The other 97.5% would still be there. A spending problem cannot be solved by a one-time wealth seizure. THE BIGGER PICTURE America has approximately: 🇺🇸 340 million people 🇺🇸 34 million businesses 🇺🇸 A $30 trillion economy The reason America became the most prosperous nation in history wasn't because government bureaucrats created wealth. It was because entrepreneurs, inventors, builders, investors, and workers created wealth. ✔️ The smartphone in your pocket. ✔️ The internet. ✔️ Amazon. ✔️ Google. ✔️ Microsoft. ✔️ Tesla. ✔️ SpaceX. Most of the technologies that transformed modern life came from capitalist innovation, not socialist central planning. Yet some politicians act like success itself is the problem. No. The problem isn't that America produces billionaires. The problem is that America isn't producing enough future millionaires. A healthy economy should create more owners, more investors, more entrepreneurs, and more opportunity. Because every billionaire started as a millionaire. Every millionaire started with a first dollar. And every thriving economy starts by rewarding people who create value for others. 🇺🇸 America became great by creating wealth. Not by punishing the people who create it.

I could really use some nice overview pictures to know what to add next... Anyone have a thought, @elonmusk , @SpaceX ???

Watch @ElonMusk provide a technical update on SpaceX’s capability to manufacture, launch, and operate AI satellites at scale → spacexipo.com

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Anyone got a picture or decent render of a Starship flap jig?

🚨 A Public Service Announcement…

Blue Origin's New Glenn just blew up at LC-36 while attempting to Static Fire ahead of NG-4. nsf.live/spacecoast

I cant wait till @elonmusk does another quick tour video, I just hope he shows the office floor.

ICYMI: History settled how slaves we fought for in the Civil War moved through the process by adding the 13th, 14th & 15th Amendments in order to grant them full freedom & citizenship rights!!! Thousands gave their lives to free those in bondage, and Republicans made sure their freedom became constitutional. As you can see, Democrats did nothing to improve the lives of slaves & the Left's soy boy Obama made sure everyone's healthcare was pricey & inadequate. 👇

I really wish I had a floorplan, or newer pictures of StarFactory, but I think I am getting the basics.

Best I can do for scissor lifts in Minecraft, but I think I got the basic feel of tiling ship barrels.

Lmao. Accurate!!!

Whoever setup the sound this time deserves an award

Amazing work by the Booster GNC team. Though the engines gave up and induced instability into the booster's attitude during coast, the grid fins seems taken authority and arrested the roll as soon it hit the thicker parts of the atmosphere. A lot of good data & wins for them.

Pass the Save America Act now. The only way the Dems can win is to cheat. Brighten up your day and watch this amusing video:

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YEs that flip was way faster and hard. My guess is that the engines were prop starved on relight.