Rivian and Tesla should find a way to incentivize "butt in seat" referrals. Double or triple the reward if someone scans a code that can only be generated on your screen as one time use.

What’s the max you would pay for a Tesla configured as follows: -Model YL -100kWh LFP pack -10-80% in <20 mins (avg charge rate >210kW) (10% challenge result ~155-175 mi) -Full V2H PowerShare via NACS port -V2L via 1 120V outlet in frunk, 1 in trunk, 1 in cabin

Whatever one thinks about the financial wisdom of investing in the SpaceX IPO, or its impact on Mars dreams, I am fucking thrilled for employees who have busted their asses for a quarter of a century. They deserve this, and will inject further money and momentum into new space.

4th Starship tower. SpaceX is already building more Starship launch pads than Falcon 9 ever had.

I’ve had enough…please Tesla, for the love of all things holy, LET ME SET MY OWN SPEED!!!!!!

Long post, but this one is important to me so I hope you stick it out! In January I reached out to Artemis II Commander @astro_reid with a simple ask- was he open to capturing the moon like I do for my colorful moon photos during the flyby? He humbly agreed, and we worked out a plan to incorporate into the photos captured as the crew approached the moon. The premise was simple- just capture enough photos in a burst to allow for image stacking to improve image fidelity, potentially to reveal color no human has ever captured. What he brought back was nothing short of magnificent. When I initially stacked the raw photos, it exceeded my expectations by far. The color came right out of the seemingly gray images, and showed details I've never seen before. It's possible nobody has. The lack of atmosphere meant a lot of color normally absorbed and scattered was present, so even the "near side" features looked exotic and unfamiliar. This view of the moon from an alien perspective made the usually-familiar lunar surface fresh and exciting, and the color we were able to resolve gave us valuable insight to the complex geological history of it's battered surface. Then, I faced a bit of a moral dilemma. I wanted people to be able to own these images in print- but I wouldn't feel right to profit off of them. As an active NASA astronaut, Reid certainly can't. He took these photos as part of a taxpayer-funded mission. If I couldn't split profits with him I didn't see a way to do this ethically, so I decided to release the images initially with no print offering, despite many requests!  Then, it clicked. After doing some research- I decided that I should do a print sale where the profits go 100% to charity. That way I can make prints available, do some good in the world, and it doesn't feel like an ethical conflict. ​I'm pleased to share my first EVER entirely-for-charity print release. ​ At the end of this sale all proceeds with be donated to UT MD Anderson Cancer Center. It feels fitting. I will follow up in a future post with a receipt from the donation, so you know how much we were able to donate. When I released this to my email subscribers only, we were already able to raise around $15k. Amazing! The limited edition fine art print is now publicly available, you can grab one of them at the link in my bio (also linked further in the thread) for a short time. Thank you for helping me do something good with my platform. Seriously... it feels amazing.

If only someone had predicted the rise of the space economy and industry in Low Earth Orbit

It’s been fun watching the bull and bear debates on SpaceX. Kinda reminds me of early Tesla days. Those bear cases didn't age too well. There has never been a company like SpaceX. I would not bet against that.

Would love a Starlink Micro that's maybe the size/weight of a 10" tablet; even if it only maxed out at like 50mbps.

A hippo in its natural habitat. @Rivian

If you use the internet or a smartphone, you’re using AI. Virtually all modern web search & voice-to-text is using AI, even on-device voice to text uses a quantized transformer-based model trained on GPUs in a datacenter. Being 100% anti-AI/datacenter is like being anti-computer

I organized an intervention to stop Elon from starting SpaceX. Here is the story... Twenty five years ago, Elon and I sat in a car on a dark stretch of Long Island highway, two neurodiverse geeks staring at the night sky and wondering what came next. We had both experienced substantial exits and felt the weight of possibility ahead of us. When I joked about 'space' while gazing upward, neither of us imagined we were planting the seed for what would become the largest IPO in history. We spent the next two hours debating why space was so hard. In the end, rockets are fuel and metal. We also debated where to go, and it was crystal clear that Mars was the only real destination. Upon returning to NYC, we embarked on a global tour of space, meeting space agencies and luminaries worldwide. This opened our eyes to an industry stuck in bureaucratic thinking. If things continued at that pace, it was clear that we would never explore space in our lifetime. So, we launched Life to Mars to show the world that two ambitious young men (29 and 30 years old), could send life to Mars without any government backing or support. We planned to send and grow plants on Mars, though some were pushing us to send mice. We had a $50 MM budget that rested on our purchase of two Russian ICBMs for $7 MM each. We assumed one ICBM would fail, and we would learn and fix everything before launching again. When Elon went back to actually buy the ICBMs, the Russians tripled the price, bringing out launch costs from a total of $14 MM to $42 MM. Our ambitious Life to Mars plan was no longer viable. As you might imagine, Elon was not pleased. So, he decided to start SpaceX and create his own Mars rockets. Now, this is a crazy idea, both now and at the time, so I organized a large panel of top space experts, and we ambushed him at the Georgian Hotel one morning. It was set up like an intervention for an alcoholic, but for space. Elon looked me in the eye when leaving the room and said, "I am going to do this." The intervention failed. Elon was committed. The rest is history. I am excited to see this IPO after 25 years of hard work. What SpaceX has done is a testament to human will and overcoming insurmountable obstacles. It's nothing short of amazing. Congratulations, E. Amazing.

People hate on Tesla/Rivian for making their native software great and not supporting CarPlay, meanwhile CarPlay apparently has as much touch screen capability as a coke freestyle machine 😭

A new Supercharger is coming soon to Elma, Washington!! Permits were filed last month for an 8-stall V4 PSU station at the Elma Farm Stand on E Young St. The site is located about half a mile off Washington Route 8 (US-12), and about 25 miles west of Olympia.

I need help crowdsourcing some data! Please reply or DM me a picture of your Tesla VIN/build date sticker behind your driver's side door. I am trying to correlate VINs with build dates. Very interested in vehicles built in Berlin or Shanghai (Austin and Fremont welcome too).

I don’t think it’s a good idea to replace the ISS with more of the same. Every space station in my lifetime had been essentially an iteration on Salyut 6, launched in 1978. We need new thinking. We need to move beyond stations and start developing true space habitats.

youtube.com/watch?v=oKJwtlqI… My footage is colored trashly in here lol. Please dont hate me

A new Supercharger expansion is coming soon to Seattle, Washington!! Pre-permits have been filed for the addition of 8 extra stalls behind the Fred Meyer on NW 45th St. The expansion will still be using V3 cabinets to power the chargers.