Zitat Race 🕊️@multiplanet1 SpaceX's first engine was designed in a garage on Super Bowl Sunday. The man who designed it was building amateur rockets in his spare time with leftover beer money. Elon Musk showed up and asked one question that changed both of their lives.
Tom Mueller was an engineer at TRW who built rockets in a rented warehouse at night with a small club of hobbyists. A friend from the club introduced him to Elon. Mueller was holding a small rocket engine he had built himself when Elon walked in.
Before Mueller could set the engine down, Elon started firing questions. "What is that? Is that a big engine? What's the biggest engine you've worked on?"
Mueller answered: a 650,000 pound thrust engine at TRW.
Then Elon asked the question: "Can you build something bigger?"
The following week, Super Bowl Sunday, Mueller went to Elon's house. They sat down with a few members from the rocket club and sketched out what would become the Merlin engine. A few meetings later Mueller signed on as employee number 1 at SpaceX.
That engine, sketched on a Sunday afternoon by a man who built rockets as a hobby, now powers the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy. It has launched more payloads to orbit than any engine in history. The company it helped build is valued at $800 billion.
Tom Mueller was a logger's son from Idaho who built rockets in a warehouse at night. Elon Musk was a fired CEO with $180 million and a plan nobody believed in. They met in a garage. One question later, the most important partnership in the history of spaceflight began over Super Bowl snacks. 7:29 PM · Sep 3, 2026
Zitat Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱@Kristof_Poland The orcs are at the gate.
Not a metaphor. Not hyperbole. The images coming from Ceuta, from the Canary Islands, from Lampedusa, from the Greek islands, from the streets of Paris and Malmö and Brussels – these are the images of a civilization that has left its walls unguarded and is watching, in real time, what happens next.
Tolkien knew. He had seen it. A generation that went to the trenches and came back — those who came back — understanding that the darkness was not an abstraction, that the Shire could be scoured, that the things worth defending required actual defense by actual people willing to stand at the actual gate. He encoded it in myth because myth is the only language large enough to carry that weight.
The orcs are not evil because they are foreign. They are the organized force of a different civilization, operating by different rules, advancing because the defenders of the gate decided that having a gate was itself the problem. The walls came down not because the orcs breached them. They came down because enough people inside decided that walls were offensive, that gatekeeping was discrimination, that the very concept of inside and outside was a form of violence against those on the outside.
Saruman is the intellectual who made this argument compellingly. Grima Wormtongue is the advisor who whispered it to the king. The king who listened is every European leader of the last thirty years. And now the Shire is being administered by Sharkey, with new rules, new residents, and a bureaucratic apparatus to explain why what you are seeing is not what you are seeing.
Poland stands at the gate. Not perfectly. Not without its own contradictions and failures. But with the specific, hard-won, historically expensive understanding that a nation which does not defend its borders does not remain a nation. That the Shire, once collectivized, is very difficult to restore. That the orcs, once inside the walls, do not leave because you ask them nicely or because a committee issues a resolution.
Sobieski rode down the hill because he understood what was at stake. Because if Vienna fell, Poland was next. Because someone had to hold the gate when everyone else was calculating their own position.
We are at the gate again.
The question is the same as it always was: who is willing to ride? 10:02 AM · Jul 31, 2026
I propose a Council of Western Civilization for Europe.
The Council of Western Civilization.
Europe has institutions for everything – fisheries, semiconductor supply chains, the harmonization of pillow labeling standards. It has no institution tasked with the defense of the civilization that produced all of the above.
This is not an oversight. It is the result of an assumption – that Western civilization was the default, the background, the thing that would simply continue because it always had. That assumption is no longer tenable. The civilization is being dismantled, quietly and less quietly, institution by institution, border by border, curriculum by curriculum. And there is no body whose explicit mandate is to notice, name it, and act.
The Council of Western Civilization would exist for one purpose: to do what no existing institution does. To identify, name, and defend the specific civilizational inheritance that makes everything else possible – the rule of law, individual freedom, meritocracy, the separation of powers, the free market, the family, the cultural memory, the borders that protect the particular against the abstract universal and the civilizationally alien.
Not a government. Not a supranational authority. A council – a body of people who understand what is being lost, who can read the civilizational grammar clearly enough to name it and act on it. Drawn from the nations that still know what they are defending.
Three tasks. First: produce the map – the honest, complete diagnosis of where Western civilization stands, what is being dismantled, what can still be defended, and what must be rebuilt. Second: build the counter-framework – the institutions the current system has stopped being, that reward honesty, meritocracy, and the transmission of what is worth transmitting. Third: distribute the vocabulary – the words that allow people to name what they are experiencing, because you cannot fight a disease you cannot name.
Not a secret Council with secret meetings – unlike the other side, which cannot openly avow what it decides or who decides it. A public one, fully transparent, whose positions, members, and decisions are visible to everyone. Because the defense of Western civilization does not require darkness. It requires exactly what the other side cannot offer: the truth, stated plainly, in public, without a mask.
And yes – Poland should lead it. Not because it’s perfect – but because Poland is the civilization that paid the full price for losing Western civilization and fought back. Because of its Spirit of Freedom and resilience. The nation that disappeared from the map and came back. The nation that held the gate at Vienna, rebuilt its capital from paintings, and understands, in its bones, what it means to defend something worth defending.
The West needs an institution that watches after it. It does not have one. It is time to build it. 12:21 PM · Jul 31, 2026
Zitat Daniel Foubert@d_foubert This Council of Western Civilization is a genius idea and the solution to all of our problems.
It's what the Papacy did: it gave a direction to our civilization. The end of spiritual power also ended civilizational power.
The papacy defined the hierarchy of values within which politics, law, education, family, art, war, charity, and authority were supposed to operate. It answered the question that every civilization eventually has to answer: what is all of this for?
Kings could fight the Pope. Universities could dispute theology. Princes could ignore Rome. But they were still operating inside a common moral and metaphysical order. There remained an authority above immediate political interest, capable of declaring some acts legitimate, others sinful, some ambitions noble, others corrupt.
That gave Europe something modern societies increasingly lack: a civilizational axis.
Once spiritual authority fragmented, political authority remained, economic power remained, scientific power expanded enormously — but none of them could fully replace the function that had been lost. States could regulate. Markets could allocate. Science could explain. None could determine the ultimate hierarchy of ends without turning its own limited logic into an ideology.
This is why the decline of spiritual power mattered far beyond religion. It meant the disappearance of a common authority capable of saying not merely what Europe could do, but what Europe should become.
A civilization without such an axis can remain rich, technologically advanced and militarily powerful for a long time. But it gradually loses the capacity to define its own purpose.
The end of spiritual power was therefore not simply the end of papal supremacy.
It was the beginning of a Europe increasingly powerful in means and increasingly uncertain about ends.
Elon Musk Took the Job the Papacy Left Vacant
For a thousand years, Europe had an authority above power. Not a stronger army – a higher court. The papacy could not tax, conscript, or arrest the men who mattered, and it did not need to. It could declare: this is legitimate, that is corrupt. Kings defied it and universities disputed it, but nobody could ignore it. That was the civilizational axis – the thing that answered the question every civilization must eventually answer: what is all of this for?
That axis broke, and nothing replaced it. States regulate. Markets allocate. Science explains. None of them can say what a civilization should become. Europe got steadily more powerful in means and steadily more lost about ends.
Then one man, with no office and no mandate, started doing the job.
1. Look at what he actually does, several times a day. He does not lobby, does not petition, does not draft policy. He issues verdicts – this is corrupt, this is a lie, this is beneath us, this is what a serious civilization would do. A judgment, in public, with his name on it. That is not commentary. That is the papal instrument, and nobody else in the West is using it.
2. And his profile became the front page. Zola needed one newspaper that a whole nation read in a single morning; that front page has not existed in the West for fifty years. It exists again now – one account, hundreds of millions of readers, no editor between the judgment and the public. The civilization got its shared morning back, in the least expected place.
3. He can do this for the same reason the popes could: he cannot be removed by the people he judges. No board can fire him, no advertiser can starve him – they tried, and he told them where to go, on stage, on the record. Independence is the precondition of the office. Every other candidate for this role – the presidents, the editors, the university heads – must first survive the people they would have to judge.
4. Notice what he judges by. Not left and right. Not the polling. He judges by whether a thing builds or destroys: does this produce more life, more children, more energy, more capability – or does it produce process, dependency, and decline? That is a hierarchy of ends, stated plainly enough that ordinary people can apply it themselves. Which is exactly what an axis is for.
5. The reaction proves the function. Nobody screams at a man with opinions. They scream at a man whose verdicts stick – whose judgment carries beyond his own tribe and cannot be answered with a press release. The fury directed at him is the same fury directed at Rome by every prince who found himself declared in the wrong and could not make it stop.
6. He did not seek this. It fell to him because the seat was empty – and it was empty because we emptied it, and then spent a century discovering that a civilization without an axis keeps its wealth and loses its purpose. Reality does not tolerate the vacancy. If no legitimate authority says what is corrupt, the position gets filled by whoever has the reach and the nerve.
7. But one man is not an institution, and that is the whole problem. The papacy lasted a millennium because it was a structure, not a person – it survived bad popes, mad popes, captive popes. What we have now is the function without the institution: a single mortal, a single account, a single platform. This works exactly as long as he does.
So the task is not to find a better man for the job. It is to build the thing that outlives the man – a public council, transparent, with a published hierarchy of values and the nerve to issue verdicts under its own name. Musk proved the seat is not obsolete. Now we have to build the chair.
The Council of Western Civilization 1:40 PM · Sep 4, 2026
Da hier in den hier zitierten Beträgen ja schon mehrfach Elon Musks Obsession für technische Detailfragen zur Sprache kam, mal etwas aus diesem Ressort.
Zitat Sawyer Merritt@SawyerMerritt The Cybercab drive unit features a simplified bar-wound stator and lubrication system, plus an overall architecture that enables fully automated, sub-10-second cycle times.
It is 18% smaller, 25% lighter and more efficient than other top performing electric vehicle drive units. 3:31 AM · Sep 4, 2026
Elon Musk@elonmusk The Cybercab motor uses no rare earth metals, but maintains the same range!
PS. “The best part is no part. The best process is no process. It weighs nothing. Costs nothing. Can't go wrong.” - Elon Musk
Zitat Nic Cruz Patane@niccruzpatane The Tesla Cybercab doesn't have ANY brake fluid. It is the first production vehicle to have a brake-by-wire system.
Electronic actuators are responsible for the clamping pressure, rather than hydraulic fluid that you see in traditional vehicles.
This system improves efficiency since the brake pads can fully disengage. They can go entirely off or on. It also enables Tesla to fine-tune the braking to be as smooth as possible.
PLUS, when the car is built with the unboxed process, Tesla doesn't need to run any brake lines, everything is seamless. 4:39 AM · Sep 4, 2026
Der Kleine Zyniker ist gerade in Versuchung, Musks Zitat auf unsere politischen Würdenträger umzumünzen:
"Das beste Amt für einen Politiker ist kein Amt. Die beste Amtsführung ist die, die nicht stattfindet. Jeder Aufwand entfällt. Sie kosten den Bürger nichts. Sie können kein Unheil anrichten."
"Les hommes seront toujours fous; et ceux qui croient les guérir sont les plus fous de la bande." - Voltaire
Zitat Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱@Kristof_Poland I propose a Council of Western Civilization for Europe.
Zitat Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱@Kristof_Poland
Founding document of the Council of Western Civilization. First draft, for correction.
What this is
A diagnosis – not a manifesto, not a program, not a complaint. Before anything can be defended, someone has to write down plainly what exists, what is being lost, and what can still be saved. That document does not currently exist. This is an attempt at it.
It is expected to be wrong in places. Everything here is open to correction by evidence.
Preamble
A civilization that cannot say what it is will not defend itself.
Europe has institutions for everything except the civilization that produced them. Before anything can be defended, we have to write down plainly what exists, what is being lost, and what can still be saved. That document does not exist. This is an attempt at it.
What we inherited
Western civilization is not an idea. It is a set of working arrangements, each of which took centuries to build and any of which can be lost in a generation:
1. Law that binds the ruler as well as the ruled.
2. Trial by evidence, not by authority.
3. Property the state cannot take at will.
4. Free exchange, and the prices that make it intelligible.
5. Science: the claim that reality is real, knowable, and open to correction by anyone with better evidence.
6. The individual conscience, which no institution owns.
7. The family: the only structure that transmits all of the above and invests in people who do not yet exist.
8. These are not Western by geography. They were built here, at great cost, and adopted elsewhere because they work.
What is being dismantled
9. Truth. Institutions built to establish facts now exist to protect narratives. Where evidence and narrative conflict, the evidence is managed. A society that cannot correct itself cannot steer.
10. Merit. "Who is best for this" is replaced by "who belongs in the room." Position is allocated by credential, network, and demonstrated loyalty. This is not equality; it is the protection of incumbents in the language of equality.
11. The right to build. In Europe, activity requires permission by default, and silence from the state means no. The visible harm is prevented. The invisible harm – the factory never built, the young person who leaves – is never counted.
12. Transmission. Birth rates across the West are far below replacement. The family has been reclassified as a lifestyle option and inheritance as an injustice. A civilization that stops handing things forward has already decided.
13. Free Speech. Not by law, mostly – by cost: employment, reputation, access. The result is a population that says one thing in public and another in private, and a growing number who have left public life entirely.
14. The nation. The frame inside which all of the above is actually enforced. Rights that no state will defend are only promises.
Why it happens
15. Accumulation. Every society builds layers of protected position. People who reach the top arrange the ladder behind them. Without periodic clearing, the layers thicken until the society is run by people it cannot remove.
16. Selection. An institution told to avoid scandal will select for people who avoid scandal, and those people prevent things rather than build them. No malice is required. Give an institution the wrong mission and it will perform it faithfully.
17. Therefore replacing individuals changes nothing. The same incentives produce the same people.
What can still be defended
18. The law still mostly works. The scientific method is intact even where scientific institutions are not. Property holds. Several nations still know what they are and say so.
19. And the monopoly on distribution is broken. For the first time in a century, an argument can reach a continent without anyone’s permission.
What must be rebuilt
20. The rotation of elites, so that position must be re-earned.
21. The presumption of freedom to act: punishment after harm, not permission before existence.
22. Institutions that transmit – schools, apprenticeships, prizes, families – rather than merely certify.
23. An authority that says publicly what is legitimate and what is corrupt, measured against a stated hierarchy of values. Nothing else on this list gets repaired while no one’s job is to name the problem out loud.
What the Council does
24. Keeps this map current, and publishes every revision.
25. Issues verdicts: short, signed, public judgments on specific laws, acts, and institutions, with the reasoning attached. Not lobbying. Not consultation.
26. Distributes the vocabulary, so people can name what they are living through. You cannot resist what you cannot describe.
What the Council does not do
27. Hold power. Seek office. Take money that comes with conditions. Issue anonymous statements.
28. Every member is named, every position public, every decision on the record. The case for this civilization can be made in the open. The case against it usually cannot.
The standard
29. We will be judged by whether what we say turns out to be true. That is the whole authority available to us, and it is enough.
Tell the truth. Have courage. And build. 11:50 AM · Sep 5, 2026
Zitat Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱@Kristof_Poland The Council of Western Civilization – How It Actually Gets Built
Europe has institutions for everything and none for the civilization that produced them. I have argued the West needs a Council of Western Civilization – a public body whose one mandate is to name what is being dismantled and to defend it. The obvious question is how. Here is the answer.
Start from what the papacy actually was. Not armies – a higher court. It could declare some ambitions noble and others corrupt, and that verdict mattered even to those who defied it. Stalin’s famous sneer — the Pope, how many divisions? — was answered within a lifetime: a Polish pope helped bring down the empire that asked the question, and the Vatican is still there. Which also disposes of the standard objection to a Council: nobody obeyed the Pope either. They simply could not ignore him. That is the office to rebuild.
1. Start with the map, not the members. The founding act is a document, not a building: one honest diagnosis of where the civilization stands, what is being dismantled, what can be defended, what must be rebuilt. Institutions that begin with charters die in committee. Institutions that begin with a text everyone is forced to answer become real. America started as a text.
2. Recruit founders, not celebrities. Twelve to twenty people with two properties: they have created something real, and they have already paid a price for saying true things. No serving politicians – the Council’s only asset is that its verdicts are not for sale, and a man who needs re-election has already sold his. Drawn from the nations that still remember what they are defending, and from the internal emigrants of the ones that have forgotten. This step is where such projects usually die; the first three names decide everything.
3. Publish everything, immediately. Transparency here is not a moral gesture – it is the strategic asymmetry. The other side’s councils cannot avow what they decide or who decides it. Every member, every position, every meeting, public. You win the legitimacy contest before the first argument begins.
4. Issue verdicts, not policy papers. The papal instrument was the pronouncement: this is legitimate, that is corrupt. Short, signed judgments on specific laws, acts, and institutions, measured against a published hierarchy of values. Not lobbying. Not consultations. Verdicts, in public, with reasons.
5. Distribute the vocabulary. You cannot fight what you cannot name – which is why this series has spent so long teaching the words: the systemic lie, negative selection, internal emigration, the rotation of elites. Words are infrastructure. This is the cheapest task and the highest leverage.
6. Build small institutions that actually work. A curriculum. A prize that honors what existing prizes won’t. A fellowship for builders locked out by credentials. One functioning institution outranks ten manifestos, because it proves the alternative is not theoretical.
7. Put it in Warsaw, and say why. The nation that vanished from the map and returned, held the gate at Vienna, rebuilt its capital from paintings. Poland paid the full price of losing the West – twice, under two occupations – and got it back. That is the qualification. Placing the axis in the country that knows what the loss actually costs is itself the argument, and it puts the Council beyond the reach of the establishment that would otherwise absorb it.
The papacy did not begin with power. It began with a claim about what was true, and the nerve to keep making it in public for centuries. Authority is not granted – it accumulates around whoever will say what everything is for, and keeps being right long enough that ignoring them becomes expensive.
We know the seat still works. One man is currently proving it. 3:41 PM · Sep 4, 2026
Zitat EFIEBER@EFIEBER_ANDRE „TESLA HAT IN EUROPA 🇪🇺 EIN RIESIGES PROBLEM!“
Stimmt! Die Nachfrage ist aktuell so hoch, dass die Giga Berlin mit der Produktion kaum hinterherkommt. 😅
…und wartet mal ab, was passiert, wenn Tesla am 6. Oktober tatsächlich grünes Licht für FSD Supervised erhält.
Deshalb gibt es jetzt sogar Extraschichten.
✅ aktuell: ~6.500 Fahrzeuge/Woche ✅ Ziel ab Mitte Oktober: 7.500 Fahrzeuge/Woche ✅ Taktzeit bereits weitgehend auf 45 Sekunden gedrückt ✅ zusätzliche Sonderschichten im September
Am 18., 19. und 25. September soll die Fahrzeugfertigung Extraschichten fahren.
Und da frage ich mich schon: Wie müssen sich eigentlich gerade die Manager der deutschen 🇩🇪 Traditionskonzerne fühlen, wenn sie solche News lesen?
Schon ein ziemlich wilder Kontrast. 9:25 AM · Sep 6, 2026
Zitat Dieser Vorstoß mit starkem Verweis auf den Sicherheitszuwachs durch das FSD-System kommt nicht von ungefähr. Denn Tesla rechnet für den 6. Oktober mit der Abstimmung über die EU-weite Genehmigung. Mit der ist nicht unbedingt sicher zu rechnen, die Einzelzulassung in Dänemark beispielsweise wurde erteilt mit Verweis auf eine mögliche, EU-Entscheidung. Die dänische Verkehrsaufsicht erteilte die vorläufige Freigabe unter Vorbehalt.
Zitat Brivael Le Pogam@brivael I hear a lot of politicians talking about creating a competitor to SpaceX. I think that’s completely idiotic. On the other hand, we need to fund startups that will build on top of SpaceX, treating SpaceX as a platform for accessing space.
It’s exactly the same mistake as the “sovereign cloud.” We tried to reinvent AWS instead of building Shopify, Stripe, and Datadog on top of it. Fifteen years later, we have neither the cloud nor the applications. European space is about to replay the same movie with committees and yet another rocket.
In June, I wrote that Starship doesn’t reduce the cost per kilo in orbit by 20%. It divides it by 100. When an infrastructure cost drops like that, freight stops being an exploit. It becomes a commodity. Like the shipping container in 1956. Like bandwidth in 2003. Like compute in 2012.
At that point, the value no longer stays in the truck. It shifts to what you put inside it, and to what you manage to deliver on the other side.
SpaceX is the tollbooth. Fortunes will be made after the tollbooth.
Here’s the list of what needs funding, assuming the kilo to orbit and to the Moon really becomes accessible.
First, orbit, because it’s the first market that opens up when the launcher is no longer the excuse.
An orbital compute box. Not another satellite. An inference factory: 24-hour sun, radiative cooling, zero town hall permits, zero rivers to pump. Energy is the bottleneck for AI on the ground. Above the atmosphere, the bottleneck vanishes. SpaceX sends the racks. You sell the FLOPS.
A microgravity manufacturing box that buys Starship slots like you buy EC2 instances. Flawless ZBLAN fibers. Protein crystals for drugs that gravity wrecks. Wafers in a vacuum that doesn’t need a two-billion-dollar clean room. You produce up there, bring it back by the kilo, sell it by the gram.
An orbital logistics box. Tugs, rendezvous, propellant depots, assembly. Starship drops 100 tons in LEO. Someone has to sort them, push them to GEO, to the Moon, to a customer. It’s DHL, not Ariane.
A cargo return box. SpaceX has already tested the vehicle that brings a ton anywhere on Earth in an hour. What’s missing is the commercial operator: critical parts, organs, seeds, samples, antidotes. FedEx never had this product. It becomes possible the day reentry is no longer a NASA event.
Next, the Moon. Not as a flag. As a warehouse and gas station.
A water and propellant box at the South Pole. Ice in the permanently dark craters, electrolyzed into hydrogen and oxygen. You no longer launch fuel from Earth. You sell it on-site to everyone who wants to leave. It’s the first real lunar business, because propellant is the only product every subsequent mission needs.
A pads and roads box in sintered regolith. Every landing kicks up an abrasive jet that destroys what’s around it. Without a slab, no cadence. Robots that melt lunar soil with microwaves or lasers, and deliver a runway like you pour concrete. Boring infrastructure. Infrastructure that captures the rent.
A lunar integrator box. Starship drops tons. The customer has 40 kilos of instrument and zero surface skills. Someone takes the payload from Hawthorne, mounts it, sets it down, deploys it, moves it. ispace started the move. What’s missing is the European equivalent that treats Starship like a truck, not a totem.
A surface energy and comms box. Panels, batteries for the 14-day lunar night, relays in lunar orbit, positioning independent of GPS. Without watts and without bits, robots stop at sunset. It’s the Moon’s telecom operator.
A metals and ISRU parts box. Regolith contains iron, aluminum, silicon, oxygen. Print parts on-site instead of assembling them from Florida. At first, tools. Then structures. Then habitats. The Moon stops being a destination. It becomes a factory.
Around that, the layer everyone forgets because it’s not photogenic.
An insurance and space risk scoring box. When freight is commoditized, the bottleneck becomes: who pays if the lander crashes, if the depot leaks, if debris kills a rack at 400 km. Lloyd’s made more money from ships than shipbuilders did.
A traffic, debris, and neighborhood standards box. Low orbit is going to fill up. Whoever sells the map, the slot, and the avoidance service becomes air traffic control for civilization.
A closed life support box. Recycled water, food, oxygen, microgravity medicine. Not for “colonizing.” For 20 people to last 18 months without weekly resupply. The first customer isn’t a tourist. It’s a base that doesn’t want to die at the slightest supply chain break.
One last, more counterintuitive: a media and training box. The first orbital honeymoon, the first lunar construction site filmed properly, the first simulator where a French welder learns to operate an arm at 400,000 km. Attention will follow the build. It can be monetized.
What these boxes have in common: none of them needs to reinvent the launcher. All buy transport like you buy cloud. All become profitable only if the kilo has dropped. All get killed if Europe spends five years funding a SpaceX competitor “for sovereignty.”
The politicians who want “our SpaceX” aren’t evil. They reason by flag analogy. They see an American succeeding, and they order a copy from a committee. It’s the software that produced Ariane 6 against a machine that lands itself. That software first destroys those who believe in it: brilliant engineers locked in programs with no market, budgets with no cadence, national pride that always arrives two generations too late.
The reconversion is simple. We stop trying to own the truck. We fund what travels inside it.
The 21st-century space race won’t be won by the country with the fanciest ceremonial rocket. It will be won by entrepreneurs who treat SpaceX like AWS, the Moon like a port, and pessimism like a short position.
Go build on top. That’s where the hundreds of billions are. And it’s still undervalued. 7:18 PM · Sep 11, 2026
Zitat Race 🕊️@multiplanet1 Elon Musk responds to random people on X at 3 in the morning.
Not through a team. Not through a scheduler. Personally. At 3am. While running six companies.
His posting history shows a consistent pattern of engagement between midnight and 4am. He replies to accounts with 12 followers. He responds to memes. He answers technical questions from strangers about rockets. He argues with people he has never met about topics that have no relevance to any of his businesses.
Isaacson witnessed this directly. He described Elon lying in bed at 2am scrolling X and responding to strangers while a partner slept next to him. The phone was the last thing he touched before sleep and the first thing he touched when he woke up. The gap between the two was rarely more than 4 hours.
The behavior makes no sense from a CEO perspective. Every minute at 3am spent arguing with a stranger is a minute not spent sleeping before a day of running Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and X simultaneously. The time is valuable beyond calculation. He spends it responding to a meme posted by someone in Ohio.
The explanation is simpler than the business logic would suggest. The man who runs six companies and has 200 million followers is, at 3am, a person alone in a dark room looking for connection with the only beings available: strangers on the internet.
The world sees a CEO engaging with his audience. The 3am timestamps tell a different story. They tell the story of a man who can't sleep, can't turn off his brain, and finds more comfort in the company of anonymous strangers than in the silence of whatever room he's lying in. 3:29 PM · Sep 15, 2026
"...selten mehr als 4 Stunden." Ein "Super Sleeper" also, der täglich mit ziemlich genau der Hälfte der sonst unabdingbaren Schlafenszeit auskommt. Das ist kein Schlafentzug, sondern das volle, normale Maß. (Nach meiner, zugegeben statistisch nicht ins Gewicht fallenden Erfahrung dehnt sich das übrigens mit zunehmendem Lebensalter, wenn auch nur unwesentlich, in meinem Fall von 3h40 auf 3h50 im Lauf mehrerer Jahrzehnte). Wie vieles im Bereich Schlaf/Traum sind viele Detailfragen, und vor allem nach der Ursache, ungeklärt. Aber es gibt gute Hinweise darauf, daß das genetisch bedingt ist.
Zitat Guardian, 5 May 2025
Such people have less need for sleep, as measured using the low-frequency Delta brain waves on EEG scans, and may also feel “worse” if they sleep more, say researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Previous studies have revealed that a phosphate molecule exchange process at the junction of two connecting nerve cells plays a critical role in the sleep-wake cycle. Researchers have now found that a mutation in people with NSS, within the gene salt-induced kinase 3 (SIK3), also plays a key role in human sleep duration. A mutation called N783Y was found to alter the SIK3 protein’s structure, hindering its ability to engage in the phosphate molecule transfer process. In this mutation, the asparagine (N) amino acid in the SIK3 protein’s 783rd protein building block position is replaced by the molecule tyrosine (Y).
When scientists created mice with this N783Y mutation, the mutant mice were found to sleep an average of 30 minutes less each night, compared with unaltered mice. Further analysis confirmed that the mutation caused structural changes affecting the protein’s ability to transfer key phosphate molecules to other proteins. The mutation did not seem to affect the levels of proteins in the mice, indicating that the sleep duration changes are linked to altered SIK3 activity and not to protein quantity within the rodents. It also led to a slight increase in EEG delta power, indicating that people with the mutation experience more deep sleep.
Zitat Elon Musk@elonmusk Production on the Moon & Mars will accelerate by far more than double every year, until natural limits are encountered
Zitat David@DavidSHolz·1h if we double the industrial production in outer-space every 12 months starting from some initial seed in 2030 then we hit Kardashev I by 2064 and Kardashev II by 2098. If we take 24 months for each doubling, we still hit Kardashev I by 2096 and Kardashev II by 2165
Zitat vittorio@IterIntellectus it’s honestly insane how much of the modern tech tree has been unlocked because of a single guy
thanks to Elon we have
- online payments - mass market electric cars - batteries and grid-scale energy storage - self driving cars and robotaxis - humanoid robots - advanced brain computer interfaces - next generation tunneling - reusable rockets -global satellite internet - basically the modern space industry - Moon and Mars transportation - orbital compute and space data centers - frontier AI - gigantic AI supercomputers - physical world AI
and the wildest part is that these branches are now starting to merge
there is a very real chance that this one guy ends up being the reason humanity reaches Kardashev II
genuinely the man of the millennium 8:38 PM · Oct 2, 2026
Zitat Race 🕊️@multiplanet1 A high school physics teacher in Oklahoma showed a live SpaceX launch during class because it aligned with the unit on Newtonian mechanics. The students expected to be bored. A rocket launch is a rocket launch. Most of them had seen clips before.
The booster separated. It flipped around. It fired its engines in reverse. And it landed upright on a drone ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
The room went silent. Then one student said "wait, that actually just happened? that's not CGI?" The teacher rewound the landing footage and played it again. Then again. He played it 4 times because the students kept asking to see it.
A student in the back of the room who had been failing physics all semester asked how the rocket knew where to land. The teacher explained thrust vector control, grid fins, and computational guidance. The failing student took notes for the first time all year. Actual handwritten notes.
The teacher said afterward that nothing he had taught in 15 years of teaching produced that reaction. Not demonstrations. Not lab experiments. Not guest speakers. A live rocket landing on a barge in the ocean did in 30 seconds what his lesson plans hadn't done in a semester: it made a 16 year old who didn't care about physics ask how something worked.
The student finished the semester with a C. Not remarkable on paper. But the student had been on track for an F and the inflection point was a 30 second video of a rocket landing that made the theoretical suddenly real.
SpaceX doesn't have an education department. It doesn't fund classroom programs. It doesn't design curriculum. But every live launch that a teacher shows during class is the most effective physics lesson available to the American education system. The curriculum can't compete with a booster landing upright on a barge while 30 teenagers watch with their mouths open.
The best physics lesson in history wasn't designed by an educator. It was designed by an engineer who wanted to reuse a rocket. 3:30 PM · Oct 2, 2026
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