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Sep 30, 2017

Elon Musk: SpaceX Is Coming for Mars in 2022

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Musk said he’s “confident” the plan will be under way within five years.

“I can’t think of anything more exciting than going out there and being among the stars,” Musk said, adding that he thinks SpaceX has figured out a way to make it affordable by using revenues from the company’s satellite launches, service missions to the International Space Station and by making smaller, more efficient rockets that are mostly reusable.

Nine years after SpaceX’s first successful launch — its fourth ever — Musk said his engineers are now perfecting propulsive landing. He believes the BFR rocket can carry out missions to the moon and back without producing propellant, enabling the establishment of a lunar space station.

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Sep 30, 2017

SpaceX’s Musk unveils plan to reach Mars by 2022

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Futurist and inventor Elon Musk unveiled ambitious plans Friday to send cargo ships to Mars in five years and use rockets to carry people between Earth’s major cities in under half-an-hour.

The founder of SpaceX said a planned interplanetary transport system, codenamed BFR (Big Fucking Rocket), would be downsized so it could carry out a range of tasks that would then pay for future Mars missions.

“The most important thing… is that I think we have figured out how to pay for (BFR),” Musk told a packed auditorium at a global gathering of experts in Adelaide.

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Sep 28, 2017

According to SpaceX, the #BFR will be capable of transporting humans from any city to any other city on Earth in under one hour

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According to SpaceX, the #BFR will be capable of transporting humans from any city to any other city on Earth in under one hour. A great example of how space technology serves us on Earth!

We are proud to have Elon Musk on our Board of Directors!

Video Credit: SpaceX
#IAC2017 #SpaceX

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Sep 24, 2017

SpaceX Files Trademark Documents for its Global Internet Network

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, internet, satellites

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has trademarked the name “Starlink” for its global satellite internet network, set to launch between 2019 and 2024.

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Sep 15, 2017

Elon Musk says Tesla will unveil its new big-rig truck in October

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation

Tesla CEO Elon Musk called the battery-powered semi “a beast.” It is expected to be the electric-car company’s first venture into heavy-duty transportation.

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Sep 11, 2017

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Gets $27 Million to Merge Humans and Machines

Posted by in categories: biological, Elon Musk, government, robotics/AI

Not much is known about Neuralink beyond Musk’s few public comments about the potential of brain-computer interfaces to accelerate human evolution. Musk sees real danger in artificial intelligence — he’s called AI a “fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization” — and believes that the best way to keep pace with machine intelligence is to upgrade human intelligence.

“Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence,” Musk told audience members at the World Government Conference in Dubai, proposing a high-bandwidth digital interface that can be interlaced with the brain to transmit data at the speed of thought.

Musk elaborated on the brain-computer interface — also known as a neural lace — in an interview published on the blog Wait But Why. In it, he said that the immense creative capacity of the human brain is constrained by the need to compress our highly complex thoughts into speech or typed text.

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Sep 4, 2017

Elon Musk says AI could lead to third world war

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North Korea ‘low on our list of concerns’ says Tesla boss following Vladimir Putin’s statement that whoever leads in AI will rule world.

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Aug 30, 2017

Hyperloop WARR pod run to 201 mph (324 km/h) in 0.8 mile near vacuum tube

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Aug 28, 2017

Tesla CEO Elon Musk Gives Us a Peek At His L.A. Tunnel Project

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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk teased his newest endeavor with a picture of a Model S inside a tunnel that he’s digging in Los Angeles.

Like so many of Musk’s projects, this isn’t just any ol’ tunnel. Musk’s startup, The Boring Company, is digging a tunnel that will be used to transport vehicles at high speeds to avoid traffic congestion. The idea is to lower vehicles via an elevator to a tunnel, where it’s then transported—not driven—in a “sled” along magnetic rails at high speeds.

The Boring Company, was inspired by traffic congestion Musk experienced in Los Angeles. The aim is to find a way cost-effectively dig networks of tunnels for vehicles and high-speed trains.

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Aug 26, 2017

How Realistic Is Elon Musk’s Hyperloop?

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, transportation

Elon Musk’s plan for the hyperloop promised city-to-city travel at speeds in excess of 700 mph, making the trip between New York City and Washington, D.C., 29 minutes. Bloomberg QuickTake Q&A explains what hurdles exist, and how they can be overcome, before the hyperloop becomes reality. (video by Henry Baker) (Source: Bloomberg)

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