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About to launch asteroid defense test! twitter.com/SpaceX/status/…
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@Teslarati @13ericralph31 This will be really important one day.
Much is made of meteor impacts that destroyed most life on Earth, but there were far more that “merely” destroyed a continent.
Comets (not asteroids) are the real wild card, as we’re only able to track ~4600 out of ~1 trillion.
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@Teslarati @13ericralph31 In 1992, comet Shoemaker-Levy smashed a hole in Jupiter the size of Earth en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Sho…
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@Teslarati @13ericralph31 Earth has been and will be smashed super hard by meteors over time. Not a question of if, just when.
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@PPathole @Teslarati @13ericralph31 If we are able to make life self-sustaining on Mars, we will have passed one of the greatest filters. That then sets us up to become interstellar.
Earth is ~4.5B years old, but life is still not multiplanetary and it is extremely uncertain how much time is left to become so.
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@SawyerMerritt Such miracles are beyond us
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@rice_fry Why watch it happen instead of helping making it happen?
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Avenge the dinosaurs!! twitter.com/AsteroidWatch/…
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@Teslarati @ResidentSponge Seriously!!??
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Happy Thanksgiving to all! Hope you have a great day.
Your support over the years is super appreciated 😀
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@teslaownersSV Great, hope yours is too!
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@ID_AA_Carmack Great speech, couldn’t agree more!
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@marenkahnert @Kristennetten @RationalEtienne @FalkenSchwer @NuovaRealta @PPathole @WholeMarsBlog @EvaFoxU @Tesla It has always been Tesla’s view that all subsidies should be eliminated, but that must include the massive subsidies for oil & gas.
For some reason, governments don’t want to do that …
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@existentialcoms Combined Tesla+SpaceX market cap is now over $1.2T, which means “$4.9B” is less than 0.4% of combined company value
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