Elon Musk

by David Sims THE FOLLOWING HEADLINE says much of what Americans need to know about Joe Biden: “Biden’s Department of Justice is very concerned that Elon Musk may prefer to hire American citizens over foreign labor.” SpaceX has developed, and is using, rocket technology that is important…

SpaceX carried out the historic Demo-2 mission with NASA over the weekend, successfully becoming the first commercial company to launch humans to space on its own spacecraft. by David Sims ELON MUSK is reportedly (according to CNBC) thinking about making SpaceX a public corporation. That would be…

The AI wrote a new passage of fiction set in China after being fed the opening line of Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell The Elon Musk-backed nonprofit company OpenAI declines to release research publicly for fear of misuse THE CREATORS OF a revolutionary AI system that can write news stories and…

Impressive technology — important missions — but what a poor choice for a location; the multiracial morass of Los Angeles, California. SPACEX PLANS to build its massive BFR rocket boosters and spaceships inside a cavernous new factory at the Port of Los Angeles, officials announced…

Introduction by David Sims FIVE DAYS AGO, SpaceX flew a previously used Falcon-9 first stage with a second payload on top. It was the first time in history that any rocket-to-orbit first stage had been used for a second time. Mark it in your history books. SpaceX caught the descending first stage once…

Following is the text of today’s SpaceX press release WE ARE EXCITED to announce that SpaceX has been approached to fly two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year. They have already paid a significant deposit to do a moon mission. Like the Apollo astronauts before them, these…

by David Sims RECENTLY ELON MUSK stated that his company, SpaceX, had a more difficult time getting government contracts compared to companies which cultivated inappropriate financial relationships with decision-makers: “In an interview with Bloomberg Business Week, Musk accused military…

Untrammeled logic and reason is “scary” and “racist,” according to this controlled media article. LET’S FACE IT: artificial intelligence is scary. After decades of dystopian science fiction novels and movies where sentient machines end up turning on humanity, we can’t…

Our comment: It would be insane to bring multiracialism and all its attendant problems to a new world. Let’s do it right this time — which might be the only time. ON A PERSONAL QUEST to settle Mars, SpaceX founder Elon Musk envisions 1,000 passenger ships flying en masse to the red planet…

WHEN ELON MUSK takes the stage of the 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico on Sept. 27, it won’t be to rehash terrestrial concerns like a fatal Tesla autopilot crash or a poorly received merger proposal. Instead, the space and electric-car entrepreneur will be talking…