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♦ Note From The Curator ♦
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"There are obviously skeptics out there, I suggest that they do not bet against us."
— Elon Musk | Quote from Inverse
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Here's what we learned from Elon Musk's SpaceX Reddit AMA
Elon Musk took to Reddit last Sunday for an Ask Me Anything session, which he noted was "meant to be supplemental" to the talk he gave at the International Astronautical Conference in Guadalajara, Mexico on September 27th. After the talk, there were plenty of lingering questions about his Mars colonization plans: what about radiation? Where would people live? During the AMA, he followed up on several topics that he didn't cover at the initial talk.
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SpaceX's Mars Colony Will Be a City of Glass
Musk predicts that Mars colonists will use "glass panes with carbon fiber frames to build geodesic domes on the surface" of the planet, and have to use "a lot of miner/tunneling droids" to create "huge amounts of pressurized space for industrial operations" and leave the glass buildings for green living space.
Early missions to Mars will focus on getting a propellant plant up and running in order to make the Interplanetary Transport System that will allow trips from Mars back to Earth much easier.
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Elon Musk Has a Four-Step Plan to Build a Fuel Plant on Mars
One user asked about the equipment and procedures that would be used to refuel the ship and if the ship would be able to function autonomously for the test flight.
Musk responded that the company is "still far from figuring this out in detail" but that they have a roughly four-step plan to get a propellant plant up and running on Mars:
"1. Send Dragon scouting missions, initially just to make sure we know how to land without adding a crater and then to figure out the best way to get water for the CH4/O2 Sabatier Reaction.
2. Heart of Gold spaceship flies to Mars loaded only with equipment to build the propellant plant.
3. First crewed mission with equipment to build rudimentary base and complete the propellant plant.
4. Try to double the number of flights with each Earth-Mars orbital rendezvous, which is every 26 months, until the city can grow by itself."
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No easy answers in SpaceX's recent rocket explosion
The Wall Street Journal reported that the problem may have been operational—rather than a manufacturing or design flaw of the rocket itself. But that does not mean the case is that simple. Nothing involving rockets ever is.
The investigation itself is a collaborative effort between SpaceX, the FAA, NASA, the US Air Force, and industry experts. Together, they are looking at over 3,000 channels of engineering data, along with video, audio and imagery, the company said. Early rumors speculated that SpaceX was worried about potential sabotage by rival space firms, and were reviewing images of strange shadow on a building next to the launch site. But mostly, the investigation has focused on the second stage liquid oxygen tank.
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Tesla (TSLA) announces Q3 financial results beat expectations, first GAAP profit in 3 years – $22 million
Well, CEO Elon Musk promised a pie in the face of the naysayers on Wall Street and they got it. After market close on Wednesday, Tesla released its financial results for the third quarter 2016. Wall street was expecting revenue of $2.43 billion and a slight gain of $0.02 per share for the quarter. Tesla confirmed $2.30 billion in revenue, below expectations, but it also announced a gain of $0.14 per share during the last quarter – a first in 3 years.
The automaker disclosed that it expects to also be profitable next quarter, which will come as a surprise to most industry watchers. The company is seeing 145% year-over-year growth in revenue.
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Tesla shifts timing of 'Solar Roof' unveiling just before sunset today, webcast now at 5:30pm PDT (UTC-7)
The company had already confirmed that the event will take place outside at Universal Studios in Los Angeles, but it was originally supposed to start after dark, which was surprising to some people considering Tesla is set to unveil a solar roof product.
Now the doors open at 4:30pm and CEO Elon Musk is expected to take the stage around 5:30pm at which time a webcast will start on Tesla's website. Sunset will be at 6:03pm today. While Tesla is expected to unveil its solar roof, it is also expected to unveil its second-generation energy storage products.
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Elon Musk Suggests the Skeptics "Do Not Bet Against" Tesla
On Wednesday, during a conference call to discuss Tesla's third-quarter financial performance, CEO Elon Musk threw down the gauntlet. "There are obviously skeptics out there," he said. "I suggest that they do not bet against us."
The skeptics to which he refers would say either that the hardware and software suite on Teslas are not actually capable of full autonomy, or, alternatively, that full autonomy is unreliable. Musk has long touted the safety benefits of Tesla Autopilot. But full autonomy is a different beast, one that likely will eliminate car wrecks as we know them.
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Musk reveals his top 3 priorities: Model 3, 100 kWh production line, and Autopilot
CEO Elon Musk clearly laid out his priorities at Tesla and on what projects he spends most of his time on at the company right now. Here are Musk's top 3 priorities at Tesla at the moment:
- Bringing the Model 3 to production on schedule and at right cost
- Advancing Enhanced Autopilot and Self-Driving software
- Ramp up 100 kWh battery pack production
The CEO even said that he was going on the 100 kWh battery pack production line right after the call to help with scaling up.
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The Hyperloop will take a lot more money to build than Elon Musk anticipated
When Elon Musk conceived of the Hyperloop high-speed transport system in 2013, he estimated that a route from Los Angeles to the Bay Area would cost about $6 billion, or $11.5 million per mile.
But leaked documents show that Hyperloop One — one of two companies attempting to make Musk's idea a reality — is estimating the cost of a potential 107-mile Bay Area project to be somewhere between $9 billion and $13 billion, or $84 million to $121 million per mile.
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