Elon Musk

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11/3/2025, 4:18:49 AM
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Sam D'Amico
@sdamico
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30d
this possibly unlocks interstellar travel, via an enormous laser sail on a vehicle propelled by distributed high-power laser beams from a massive fleet of satellites.

unlike avatar, you can shrink the payload to essentially an “AGI bootloader” (quite literally, a seed)
Ryan McEntush
@rmcentush
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31d
each starlink v3 appears to have ~100 kW of solar (based on array dimensions). starship should carry ~50–100 per flight — call it ~6 MW nameplate per launch at 60 sats.

spacex applied for ~30k sats → ~3 GW of orbital solar in total

if starship hits even conservative projected

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