Retired Navy Commander. A-6 B/N, F-14 RIO. 300+ carrier landings. Retired Senior Manager for Combat Analysis with Lockheed Martin.
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Bob Jones retweeted
The car industry had a century to build an electric car people actually wanted. It didn’t.
The aerospace industry had sixty years to make a rocket reusable. It didn’t.
The telecom industry had decades to connect the billions it couldn’t profit from. It didn’t.
One person looked at all three and started crossing them off.
Reusable rockets that land themselves. Electric cars that outsell their gas-powered rivals. A satellite network that beams internet from orbit to any point on the planet. A platform where speech is no longer filtered through a handful of editors. A chip inside a human brain that lets a paralyzed person control a computer with their thoughts.
And now a car that flies.
Six companies. Six industries. Each one operating at the frontier of its field while feeding engineering, data, and capability back into the others.
The rockets fund the satellites. The satellites fund the rockets. The cars train the robots. The AI runs them. The platform keeps the conversation free. The energy powers all of it.
People keep waiting for him to fail. They have been waiting for twenty years.
The rockets were supposed to explode. They land on boats. The cars were supposed to be toys. They outsell everyone. The satellites were supposed to be impossible. They connect six continents.
The brain chip was supposed to be science fiction. It is inside a human skull right now.
At some point the pattern stops being luck and starts being something the critics are not equipped to recognize.
Not because they lack intelligence. Because the framework they use to judge what is possible was built inside the institutions that couldn’t do what he does.
The conversation about Elon Musk has never been about Elon Musk.
It has been about how uncomfortable it makes people to watch one person accomplish what entire industries organized themselves to attempt and never finished.
History does not produce this combination often. The drive. The technical depth. The pain tolerance. The willingness to let the mission burn through everything else. And the insane ambition to attempt all of it at once.
Every one of these technologies would have arrived eventually. Reusable rockets. Electric vehicles. Global connectivity. Brain interfaces. None of them violated the laws of physics.
But eventually can mean fifty years. And fifty years is the difference between your grandchildren seeing it and you seeing it.
The most overlooked thing Musk has done is not any single invention.
It is how much of the future he pulled into the lifetimes of people who would have died before it arrived.
Earth does not get many of these.
And the people still betting against him are making the same mistake every industry made before he walked in and did the thing they said couldn’t be done.
Bob Jones retweeted
They are coming at you from Intracoastal City this week, a spot @SpaceX actually considered in its permit!
So why didn't it get picked for the rocket wharf? The kids break it all down. Plus an appearance from a surprise guest!
Starbase Louisiana Update: Intracoastal City Edition youtu.be/2n9g5tuS95M
Bob Jones retweeted
White people are the only group systematically denied the right to celebrate their culture and history and instead pressured to diversify.
When I was at church last Sunday, the pastor again criticized us for being a majority-white congregation—the third time in recent months.
So I obviously got up and left.
Many of us are exhausted by the steady erosion of our history and culture.
There’s nothing wrong with being proud of your culture.
Bob Jones retweeted
CNN bombshell report: Not one mile of track for the California high speed rail project got built.
But wait… THIS STORY IS FROM 2012.
14 years later. 0 miles built.
Bob Jones retweeted
I keep going back to this interview as we watch France burn…
The Far Left interviewer frame Elon and us as “Far Right” for being against exactly what is happening today.
Elon’s every word was proven correct.
Her view was proven wrong.
The Media is the Enemy of the People.
Bob Jones retweeted
Elon Musk explains why charging your EV to 100% on a road trip is a mistake:
On a road trip, your instinct is to fill the battery all the way up.
That's how you'd treat a gas tank.
But a battery doesn't work like a gas tank.
Charge to about 80%. Drive it down to 10% or less. Repeat.
This is just for long trips, when you want to spend as little time at the charger as possible.
Elon: "Getting from 80 to 100, it takes about as much time as getting from 0 to 80."
The reason is what's happening inside the battery.
Lithium ions travel from one side to the other, looking for a place to settle.
Think of them as cars hunting for a parking spot.
When the lot is empty, they zip right in.
As it fills up, they have to circle around, like at a packed mall.
So the closer the battery gets to full, the slower it charges.
The last few spots take the longest to find.
Bob Jones retweeted
Teams encapsulated 32 payloads ahead of Falcon 9’s launch of the Bandwagon-5 rideshare mission from Florida → spacex.com/launches/bandwago…
Bob Jones retweeted
Elon just dropped a lot of interesting stuff in Tesla Owners Silicon Valley’s X Takeover.
Starship first:
Flight 14’s engine issue was just a small software bug. The heat shield held up well.Flight 15 is aiming for 4 to 6 weeks from now. The plan is to catch both Booster and Ship. If that works, it will be the first time an orbital-class rocket has been fully recovered. Then comes Flight 16. Elon hopes they can actually fly reused hardware.
On Terafab, Elon was very blunt. They are still learning how to make chips. Start with normal equipment, learn the whole process, then build custom machines and push output way higher.
He also explained why SpaceX bought Cursor. They need more training data, great people, and an enterprise sales team that can actually sell AI products.
And his definition of real AI was simple: most robot demos are fake. Give a robot something it has never seen before. If it can still handle it, that is real AI.
Bob Jones retweeted
A retired NASA engineer who had worked on the Space Shuttle program for 25 years was hired by SpaceX at age 62. He described the first week as the most disorienting experience of his professional life.
At NASA, a design change required 3 meetings, 2 committees, a review board, and 6 to 18 months of documentation. At SpaceX, his new supervisor said "if it works, build it. If it doesn't, change it by Friday."
He sat at his desk after the first day and called his wife. He told her he felt like a man who had been swimming with ankle weights for 25 years and someone just cut them off. He could move. He could decide. He could build something in the morning and test it in the afternoon. The constraint that he had accepted as the nature of aerospace engineering turned out to be the nature of bureaucracy.
Within 6 months he had contributed to more design iterations than he had completed in his last 5 years at NASA. Not because he was working harder. Because the time between having an idea and testing the idea collapsed from months to hours. The same brain. The same knowledge. A different operating system.
He described a specific moment where he proposed a modification to a Raptor engine component. At NASA, the proposal would have entered a queue. At SpaceX, the modification was machined by the end of the day and tested by the following morning. He watched his idea become a physical object in 18 hours. At NASA, 18 hours would not have been enough to schedule the first meeting to discuss whether to schedule a meeting.
He told an interviewer: "I didn't get smarter when I went to SpaceX. I got faster. The intelligence was always there. The system was in the way."
The difference between SpaceX and NASA is not talent. NASA has extraordinary talent. The difference is the time between a thought and a test. SpaceX compresses it. NASA elongates it. The same engineer produces 10x more at SpaceX than at NASA because the bottleneck was never the engineer. It was the meetings about the meetings about the work.
Bob Jones retweeted
Starlink beams are turned off over India, so the claim that they were used by anyone for any reason is absolutely false
Bob Jones retweeted
THE USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN IS FINALLY HOME AFTER 321 DAYS AT SEA, AND PETE HEGSETH WAS STANDING THERE TO WELCOME THEM BACK.
The Secretary of War said no carrier strike group in history has ever done what this crew did.
They flew 10,000 sorties and logged 23,000 combat flight hours, and Hegseth says they dropped 1.5 million pounds of ordnance on the enemy.
They pulled all of that off without a single aircraft mishap, and even Hegseth said he has no idea how that's possible.
When he misspoke during the speech, he dropped and did pushups right in front of the sailors, which is exactly why the troops love this guy.
The fake news spent months trashing their mission, but these warriors got the job done and came home heroes, so God bless every one of them.
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BREAKING: The FAA proposes five rule changes to make rocket launch approvals easier.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced plans to cut repeated paperwork and allow online applications while keeping safety standards in place.
The changes support a U.S. goal of 1,000 commercial launches a year by 2030.
For SpaceX, this could mean less paperwork, easier approvals and more frequent launches.