Our new weekly video is up! This week we filmed from a special spot on the property: Mulberry Island, an area that could play an important role in the future Starbase Louisiana site. A sincere thank you to everyone who has subscribed and follows along each week. #StarbaseLouisiana piped.video/i6hiDqpc-bE

POV you’re a flying car

Yeah, much easier to cool in space. ~1300 W/m^2 is easily achievable for an aluminum radiator pointed away from the Sun, as it is mostly just seeing cosmic background radiation at ~3 degrees above absolute zero! Solar panels generate ~250 W/m^2, so you should expect them to have ~5 times the area of the radiator. Most of the mass of the satellite is solar panels.

Here's your Short: Could SpaceX Be Nationalized? (not financial advice)

Can’t wait cancel AT&T ✅

They should’ve been working harder to make their services better. Good riddance.

Anybody want to see a tour of the inside of Aalo Atomics pilot factory? Had a full interview with them that went up a few days ago as well. @JoeTegtmeyer @TesLatino

Monday morning update from Tampa 🌧️ Waymo, paused due to weather Robotaxi, 4 minutes to pickup @$9.33

SpaceX has introduced a new website for Starfall, which enables affordable, routine access to a microgravity environment, providing unique opportunities for manufacturing, scientific research, and testing in low-Earth orbit. Starfall specs: • Payload capacity: 1,000 kg (2,205 lbs) • Payload power: 1 kW • Data interface: Ethernet • Mission duration: Customizable to payload requirements • Connectivity: Continuous via Starlink SpaceX says Starfall is for: • Biomedical Research: Developing advanced biomaterials, medical implants, stem-cell organoids, and replacement tissues. • Pharmaceutical Discovery: Growing more uniform protein and drug crystals in microgravity to accelerate drug development. • Materials Science: Manufacturing next-generation materials and semiconductors using the vacuum and microgravity environment of space. Website: spacex.com/starfall

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Posting this as it needs to be addressed. What part of an FSD counter with the following text is nudity? Weird things are getting flagged wrongly. @GrumpyTesla_ and now @TruthTom getting hit by it. Please look into and fix this nonsense. Something very wrong here and account lockouts happening…

Hey @Smokehbear it looks like @x @elonmusk banned @TruthTom for some bullshit! What the hell!! Spread the word. piped.video/pALV6_TLsd4?is=fXNy…

Tesla’s Adaptive Headlights are incredible.

So you want to send data wirelessly? Starlink does it. 5G (cellular) does it. Wi-Fi does it. What do they all have in common? QAM modulation. Data is just 1s and 0s. Eight bits make a byte. A byte can represent something as simple as a character or part of a pixel in a digital photograph. Put enough bytes together and you have sentences, images, video, and just about everything else we send digitally. But how does all of this travel "through the air"? Via radio signals, of course. More specifically, through a technique called Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM). Here's how it works. The transceiver generates a radio wave whose amplitude and phase can be precisely controlled. Each unique combination represents a symbol. The receiver reads that symbol and translates it back into bits. This isn't unique to Starlink. 5G and Wi-Fi use the same basic technique, often employing higher-order modulation schemes such as 256-QAM or even 1024-QAM, depending on the technology and signal conditions. The key is signal quality. The higher the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), the more reliably a receiver can distinguish between closely spaced symbols. That allows the system to use higher-order QAM, packing more bits into each symbol and increasing data throughput. Starlink does the same thing. It uses adaptive modulation, dynamically shifting between QAM schemes based on the quality of the connection. When SNR is high, it can use higher-order QAM and transmit more bits per symbol. When conditions deteriorate, it shifts to a more robust, lower-order scheme. Let's look specifically at 64-QAM. The "64" refers to the number of unique symbols, or states, that can be transmitted. QAM combines two carrier signals that are 90 degrees apart in phase (hence "quadrature"). By varying their amplitudes, the system creates 64 unique combinations. Since 64 = 2⁶, each symbol represents 6 bits of data. For example, the binary sequence 110011 maps to one specific point in the QAM constellation. A constellation diagram illustrates this nicely. It plots the 64 possible symbols in a two-dimensional space. Each point represents a unique combination of the two carrier signals, and therefore a unique 6-bit value. Now let's put some numbers around this. At a symbol rate of 90 million symbols per second, with 64-QAM carrying 6 bits per symbol, the theoretical data rate is: 90 million × 6 = 540 Mbps. That's before accounting for coding overhead and other protocol details. But there's another interesting aspect: the bandwidth is shared between transmitting and receiving data. In the example we're looking at, approximately 74 milliseconds of each second is allocated to uploading data from the subscriber terminal, while the remaining 926 milliseconds is allocated to downloading data from the satellite. In other words, the link is asymmetric, with considerably more capacity allocated to downloads than uploads.

Quality FSD behavior right here.

Poteto just ABSOLUTELY COOKED Tibo. This rivalry is turning into actual cinema 😭 For anyone who missed the lore: - Tibo launched poteto.com, a simple finding game that redirects to ChatGPT. - Alex Wang responded with thibaultsottiaux.com, redirecting to Muse. - Now Poteto has fired back with tibo.dog, a whole survival game built in just 4 DAYS using Grok bot and Cursor. And the game is INSANE. You play as Tibo, fighting hordes of zombies (literally users begging for resets 💀), leveling up, surviving different stages, and facing a Muse-themed boss based on Alex Wang. - ~1,150 PRs in 4 days - Supports 10 languages - Custom engine, music, and pixel art - 500 enemies at 60 FPS - Just ~124 KB gzipped - Playable directly inside an X post - Easter eggs EVERYWHERE Poteto absolutely cooked with this one. I'm Team Poteto for this round. This rivalry has been way too entertaining LMAO. Who are you supporting: Tibo, Alex, or Poteto?

My @bot seems confused. Can’t make calls from the app but it can from the mobile app???

NEWS: Japan's MLIT to approve "steering-wheel-free" autonomous vehicles across the board from December. • Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) is considering blanket approval of driverless vehicles that have no steering wheel or brake pedal. • It plans to revise its vehicle safety standards and apply the new rules from December. • The aim is to support mass production, with the spread of robotaxis in mind. • The rules cover Level 4 vehicles, which drive fully autonomously under specific conditions, and Level 5 vehicles, which are fully autonomous everywhere. • Until now, each vehicle's safety has been certified case by case. • The plan will be discussed at the ministry's vehicle safety committee meeting on the 4th. Source: Nikkei