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🇺🇸 Proud American | Father & Grandfather | $SPCX & $TSLA Shareholder ⚡️ | Online Security Advocate 🛡️ | Strongly Against Scams 🚫

Texas City, TX
Joined February 2009
The aura levels in these two photos are out of this world.
Los niveles de aura de estas dos fotos son de otro mundo.
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Elon Musk reveals the single idea that explains why he keeps working despite being worth $800 billion
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This is one of the most mind-blowing videos from SpaceX Starship: The Sun bursts over Earth's horizon as Starship glides silently through space.
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Ever wondered how SpaceX’s Starship transfers millions of pounds of thrust from its Raptor engines directly into the giant stainless steel hull without crushing it? 🚀💥
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Elon Musk with SpaceX’s first Falcon 9 booster at Cape Canaveral, Florida, in 2009.
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ELON MUSK: "There's a lot of things that I worry about. The birth rate is very low in almost every country and unless that changes, civilization will disappear. America had the lowest birth rate ever. That was last year. Humanity is dying."
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ELON MUSK: "I would encourage everyone to be optimistic and excited about the future, and I think for quality of life, it is actually better to err on the side of being an optimist and wrong rather than a pessimist and right usage."
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ELON MUSK: “The fundamental breakthrough that's needed is full and rapid reusability, which we're hoping to achieve with the Starship design by catching the ship, and then reflying the ship either later this year or early next year.
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ELON MUSK: Starship’s full reusability will cut the cost of reaching space by a factor of 100. “The major breakthrough that SpaceX is hoping to achieve is full reusability.
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We live in the most interesting of times.
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BREAKING: SpaceX just hit 125 launches in 2026. 🚀 That’s about one rocket launch every two and a half days, with nearly two months still to go.
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Elon Musk in the Starship control room during Flight 14.
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One day, we’ll have a base on the Moon.
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BREAKING: One of Japan’s largest coastal tanker operators, Asahi Tanker, just announced it has surpassed 100 Starlink-equipped ships.
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BREAKING: Slate Aviation, which operates over 7,000 flights a year, just announced it will bring Starlink to its entire fleet.
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The U.S. Marine Corps turns 251 years old today. Here is a picture of Elon Musk during his visit to the 1st Marine Raider Battalion Ball, a special operations unit of the Marine Corps. He was presented with a ceremonial paddle by a Marine Raider in 2017.
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Former Tesla executive praises Elon Musk's unshakeable determination after SpaceX's failed launches.
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Elon Musk inspired a lot of entrepreneurs to work on big problems.
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Elon Musk with University of Cincinnati students at the Hyperloop competition in 2017.
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Elon Musk in December 2010, the same day SpaceX became the first private company to send a spacecraft to orbit and bring it back. He called a reusable rocket "the holy grail of orbital spaceflight" and said some out there thought it was impossible.
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