Rockets, robots & Teslas. Investor-fan, opinions mine, not advice. Optimus: 10 for the price of a Roadster. Roll Tide.
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Why catch a rocket at all? Short answer: so you can fly it again. Here's the porch version. Full video: youtu.be/F7Pl2RRyZUQ
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Two catches, one flight. Here's how Starship Flight 15's booster and ship catch timeline is supposed to play out. 🚀 Full breakdown from the porch: youtu.be/F7Pl2RRyZUQ
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Packin' the truck for Starbase: lawn chair, ice chest, binoculars, and a phone charger I'll still forget. If they catch both this weekend, y'all won't hear the end of it. Then it's Bama at Vandy Saturday at 11:45. Long, loud weekend.
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Software built to move data through space turns out to be good for training AI too. Starlink keeps paying off in ways nobody planned.
Turns out that the Starlink software, built for managing the movement of vast amounts of data through space and to the ground, is also very well suited to training super intelligence
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24 years. Can't buy that kind of loyalty. Headed her way this week to watch Flight 15 in person.
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Musk says Optimus can work 168 hours a week. I work 40 and need a nap and a Coke by 2. Early builds have already started in Fremont. Somewhere a robot's fixin' to find out what an Alabama July feels like.
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Tesla broke ground on its $10 billion solar factory near Houston, called Project Crystal Sun. Ingots, wafers, cells, and panels all under one roof. Built by 2028, running by early 2029. Texas keeps getting the good stuff.
Tesla has started the Earthworks for Project Crystal Sun!
This is/was Tesla's proposed area for Project Crystal Sun, a $10.1 billion solar-cell and panel factory. It appears Tesla has decided to build here!
The roughly 3,000-acre project would manufacture everything from silicon ingots to finished solar panels and create approximately 9,712 permanent jobs. Production is targeted for early 2029.
I decided to swing by yesterday and found massive clearings, equipment staging areas, the old homestead is being used, and they are already leveling a large area.
Enjoy the flyover and please, please subscribe
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SpaceX's VP of Launch says Grok now checks borescope video of rocket parts for debris. Human inspectors catch about 94%. Grok catches 99.9%. That's going from missing about 1 in 17 pieces to 1 in 1,000. That's AI earning its keep.
SpaceX VP of Launch @TurkeyBeaver says Grok is now helping them identify foreign object debris in aerospace parts, and that Grok (99.9%) is better at it than humans (94%).
"We’ve automated being able to detect FOD. We’ll have an inspector go in and borescope a tube, and we find that humans are about 94% perfect (at) finding a piece of it. Grok analyzing the same video is 99.9% perfect."
Full article: arstechnica.com/space/2026/1…
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Driving to Texas this week to watch my first Launch!🚀 and hopefully a catch or two. Anybody else going?
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Starship Flight 15 has a window now: Friday, 4:45 PM CT, 75 minutes, pending FAA approval. Booster catch about 6 minutes after liftoff, ship catch after it spends most of a day in orbit. Friday the 13th and they're going for both. I'll be on the porch with the phone propped up.
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Cindy and I have opened PorchSwingGifts! Personalized ornaments, mugs and gifts with a little Southern heart. We'd love for you to take a look—and share it with someone who loves a thoughtful gift.
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NASA picked SpaceX to fly communications satellites on a Starship out toward the Moon in 2028. SpaceX also made the list of 8 companies for NASA's new $10 billion moon delivery contract. Catch it Friday, haul Moon gear in '28.
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SpaceX is targeting Friday the 13th for Starship Flight 15 — first try at catching both the booster AND the ship with the tower arms. Full recovery of an orbital rocket. That's the whole ballgame.
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Musk says Tesla'll probably rent Optimus instead of sellin' 'em first. Build cost starts around a car, then cheaper. No rental price yet. So one day I might lease a robot that mows straighter than I do.
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Tesla's winding down Cybertruck at Giga Texas around mid-2027 to make room for Cybercab. Elon says they'll keep building 'em another 8–9 months. "There will never be another vehicle like it."
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Kickoff's at 2:30 in Death Valley. Phone's on silent except for SpaceX alerts. Priorities. Roll Tide.
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Bama at LSU Saturday, 2:30 on ABC. First daytime kickoff in Baton Rouge since 2010. Going into Death Valley in broad daylight feels like walking through a haunted house with the lights on. Roll Tide.
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Permit to running in under a year, with 30 labs on one campus. Around here it takes longer than that to get a pothole fixed.
Berlin Tesla Engineering Center opens today
From permit to operational in under a year, it brings 4 engineering sites onto 1 campus w/ 30 different labs in Köpenick, 30 minutes from Giga Berlin
With our 3rd hub of this kind after Fremont & Shanghai, we’re combining materials, powertrain, vehicle engineering & validation under one roof – enabling a short feedback loop between development & ramp
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