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@Robotbeat Robotbeat🗽 ➐Robotbeat🗽 ➐ posts on X about ai, solar, spacex, china the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and 8808 posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
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Social topic influence ai, solar #1122, spacex #491, china, if you, gas #2004, just a, inference #280, dawn #1410, remarkable
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @truthfulast @noahpinion @bellikozan @peterrhague @orbitalperigee @elonmusk @kenkirtland17 @deltaiv9250 @cjhandmer @culpablemink @rocketrepreneur @holliemaea @yfactr @theprimaldino @chrispylispy @spacex @matthewweacc @brickmack @nick65979825 @drphiltill
Top assets mentioned Tesla, Inc. (TSLA)
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"XCOR an OG NewSpace company had a policy where every employee would eventually get to take a ride on one of the many Lynx test flights. Makes sense. You want to attract people who care about spaceflight. Its basically like making the whole workforce into the astronaut corps"
X Link 2025-12-09T22:19Z 12.8K followers, 1196 engagements
"This actually isn't bad. For a driveway of this size it takes about $XX of energy to melt X inches of snow that would take like a couple of hours of hard labor to shovel. It could also take a bunch of salt which a lot of people do. Salt is bad for nature & for infrastructure"
X Link 2025-12-06T16:27Z 12.8K followers, 2.1M engagements
"Well thats a good point"
X Link 2025-12-11T18:26Z 12.8K followers, 7733 engagements
"Making Guam (and Northern Mariana Islands) a new US state would also make the US effectively an East Asia power (and not just as a guest in military bases with our allies). Which would be awesome"
X Link 2025-11-08T03:49Z 12.8K followers, 1773 engagements
"Falcon Starship New Glenn Terran-R Nova and Neutron. All US X RLVs are developed by private companies except for the latter one. People will take this to mean that keeping space companies private is good but it also shows how remarkable Peter Beck and Rocket Lab are"
X Link 2025-12-06T02:34Z 12.8K followers, 1600 engagements
"@Mark_Richards68 PEX tubing is pretty flexible"
X Link 2025-12-07T02:43Z 12.8K followers, 7030 engagements
"Rare earths arent actually rare exhibit 332:"
X Link 2025-12-11T18:53Z 12.8K followers, XXX engagements
"@Truthful_ast Its too too heavy for LEO actually. Its designed for max capacity after refueling (and note Elon did talk about putting AI satellites in high orbit or escape)"
X Link 2025-12-12T03:44Z 12.8K followers, XXX engagements
"@ELGR3CO If good men do nothing we are back in the world of the 1800s and early 1900s when powerful countries would just take what they wanted by force. The only way to stop Russia and China from doing so is with military force or the credible threat of it"
X Link 2025-12-04T14:48Z 12.8K followers, XX engagements
"@simeon_banner @sopjap @Truthful_ast Maybe China should just respect the internationally recognized territory and EEZs in the Champa Sea China is actively annexing parts of Bhutan too"
X Link 2025-12-05T23:52Z 12.8K followers, XXX engagements
"@KenKirtland17 Disagree strongly. SpaceX will send people to Mars basically one-way. That is as much settlement as youre going to ever get"
X Link 2025-12-11T05:37Z 12.8K followers, XXX engagements
"@Yrouel86 The public shares are a small proportion of the companys value"
X Link 2025-12-11T00:59Z 12.8K followers, 2594 engagements
"@TheAndrewNadeau Im going to need an actual pre-sell-out source for this. Im well versed in Veggietales and this is bulls***"
X Link 2025-12-12T16:57Z 12.8K followers, 23.9K engagements
"Its okay if Jared isnt administrator. He would be fantastic But Duffy wanting to kill NASAs role as an independent agency seems to be a particularly bad choice at the moment. We need someone else besides Duffy"
X Link 2025-10-21T12:48Z 12.8K followers, 20.5M engagements
"Ive talked to folks who worked at NASA during Apollo & still work at NASA today. NASA was as hardcore as SpaceX (jokingly called DivorceX) today. & I think a lot of people would actually prefer it. There ARE a lot of bright & hardworking people at NASA stymied by the culture"
X Link 2025-12-09T14:54Z 12.8K followers, 17.8K engagements
"Every day I learn a new horror for how China fishes"
X Link 2025-12-10T03:58Z 12.8K followers, 89.7K engagements
"Id be surprised if SpaceX doesnt start launching megawatts of AI compute into space by 2027. Most people balking at the idea of datacenters in space havent grappled much with Starlink even as it is today. Theyre grounding their expectations on traditional satellites"
X Link 2025-12-10T14:41Z 12.8K followers, 67.4K engagements
"@Philfreeze96 It might be a good idea for NASA to attract people already fundamentally interested in spaceflight not just as a 9-to-5 job"
X Link 2025-12-10T22:00Z 12.8K followers, XX engagements
"@Philfreeze96 Reliability needs to be 99.9-99.995% or higher. Also I think Elon didnt go because he doesnt want spaceflight to just look like a tourist trip for the rich and his sights are set on Mars"
X Link 2025-12-10T22:17Z 12.8K followers, XX engagements
"GPU/TPUs dominate the cost of AI datacenter build-out. NVidia GPUs are like $40/Watt (maybe $20/W if you negotiate). If you make your own they can be $5-10/Watt. Power is $2-10/Watt ($2/W if using nat gas peakers but the fuel cost starts to matter $5-10/W for PV+LFP or nuke)"
X Link 2025-12-11T14:39Z 12.8K followers, 1689 engagements
"@nuclear___love I think hes a younger Millennial but yeah basically"
X Link 2025-12-11T15:30Z 12.8K followers, XXX engagements
"@DylanEMHolland @YIMBYLAND Starlink isnt illegal. Starlink AI is just likely modded Starlinks at first"
X Link 2025-12-11T15:43Z 12.8K followers, XX engagements
"@DylanEMHolland @YIMBYLAND Its not illegal and is worse for a given weight than solar in space"
X Link 2025-12-11T15:52Z 12.8K followers, XX engagements
"@Orbital_Perigee Hes kinda like Peter Beck. He started out with nothing and in the wrong country for his industry. RL doesnt hold a candle to SpaceX but the fact that the company has been able to carve out a niche in the shadow of SpaceX is remarkable & the guy deserves respect for that reason"
X Link 2025-12-12T14:20Z 12.8K followers, XX engagements
"There isnt a single energy source the US doesnt have in abundance. Have a quarter of Earths coal we produce the most oil & gas have the most fission building the most fusion almost all in-space solar have best (or nearly best) solar geothermal & on-shore wind resources"
X Link 2025-12-08T15:59Z 12.8K followers, 221.1K engagements
"Were just gonna chuck like trillions of dollars of capital into spaceflight"
X Link 2025-12-09T23:45Z 12.8K followers, 3368 engagements
"There needs to be a way to make Mars a place that isnt just a money pit. I think I have an idea that works uniquely for Mars and nowhere else"
X Link 2025-12-11T00:09Z 12.8K followers, 3172 engagements
"@andrewmccalip @heskelbalas @cerv3ra @Xaraphim @dirtman This isnt accurate. Solar panels radiate from both sides. If XXX% is absorbed as heat emissivity is XXX the equilibrium temperature is 340K 67C. Show your work"
X Link 2025-12-11T15:12Z 12.8K followers, XX engagements
"Nuclear-electric propulsion is super over-rated. At 1AU modern solar arrays have a specific power of like 120-150We/kg alpha of 6-8kg/kW. Fission is 5W/kg for Kilopower & even advanced concepts struggle to do 40W/kg. You need to be at like Jupiter for it to look attractive"
X Link 2025-12-13T17:38Z 12.8K followers, XXX engagements
"Launching to LEO uses no more fuel or energy than near-antipodal supersonic cargo would. If you converted Concorde to a freighter itd have 15.5t payload 7000km range. 191t fuel to go 14000km for Concorde. Falcon9 uses 158t of kerosene to launch 18t cargo with booster recovery"
X Link 2025-10-29T03:52Z 12.8K followers, 6593 engagements
"I want to do this above an AI datacenter heat exchanger. I want to be lifted to the heavens by the thoughts of the machine god"
X Link 2025-11-30T04:07Z 12.8K followers, 88.8K engagements
"The longest oil wells are like 15km long. The deepest borehole is 12km"
X Link 2025-12-04T03:55Z 12.8K followers, 3064 engagements
"@CosmoN8 NIMBYs wont let them"
X Link 2025-12-04T19:24Z 12.8K followers, 13.7K engagements
"@johnbye6 Pretty sure this one is using PEX tubing"
X Link 2025-12-06T23:10Z 12.8K followers, 1451 engagements
"@darknessblades It freezes at -30F. It almost never gets that cold particularly underground. Also PEX tubing is freeze tolerant"
X Link 2025-12-06T23:34Z 12.8K followers, XXX engagements
"@XyGoT 3-4/kWh natural gas (notice it uses PEX tubing not electrical wire) and I was assuming less area (500-1000ft2) and less snow than that"
X Link 2025-12-07T02:00Z 12.8K followers, 10.9K engagements
"@johnfreehayes @Blizzox2 Unsolved problem How do the rovers stay cool then"
X Link 2025-12-07T04:55Z 12.8K followers, XX engagements
"If you do something really hazardous with something rare and nearly illegal to obtain & mess around with you can forever be the only one who has flushed a toilet with mercury and filmed it"
X Link 2025-12-08T00:23Z 12.8K followers, 63.4K engagements
"Europe needs to realize that aligning with China isnt a bulwark against the Elon/Trump axis"
X Link 2025-12-08T23:09Z 12.8K followers, 1946 engagements
"Im glad AI boom is investing in fission solar space launch satellites new chip making tech new turbine engine entrants & fusion. Modern AI itself is good (& doesnt seem to have a moat good for consumers). Even when the bubble bursts these investments will be useful"
X Link 2025-12-09T14:03Z 12.8K followers, 2300 engagements
"@YetiMoose @Paul_Melman From the US Geological Survey"
X Link 2025-12-09T15:06Z 12.8K followers, XXX engagements
"I really would not be surprised if SpaceX applied their turbine experience to making Peaker plants. I havent seen any evidence of it so far (and of course Raptor uses centrifugal turbines not axial flow) but"
X Link 2025-12-09T21:15Z 12.8K followers, 7362 engagements
"Jared cant do much about civil servant pay scale but he suggested rewarding the best NASA workers with payload specialist flights. Makes sense coming from experience in Polaris Dawn & Inspiration4. But X seat Dragon wont cut it. We need this but for Starship & space stations"
X Link 2025-12-09T22:13Z 12.8K followers, 20K engagements
"@Yoyoyoyoy42 @funandprofitco No. LiPo is a different thing. Neither Model X nor BYD are. LiPo is for drones"
X Link 2025-12-09T22:40Z 12.8K followers, XX engagements
"@MattGialich @ezrafeilden @Andercot In heliospheric orbit or close to it you could have structures 2000km on a side. So like 4000000 km2 a Petawatt of power"
X Link 2025-12-10T00:48Z 12.8K followers, XXX engagements
"@gak_pdx Well its an AirBnB so"
X Link 2025-12-10T04:57Z 12.8K followers, XX engagements
"@heskelbalas @dynamic_thinker @DrPhiltill Theres infinity bajillion dollars which can be invested in spaceflight"
X Link 2025-12-10T05:10Z 12.8K followers, XX engagements
"@NapoleonBonabot I hope youre right"
X Link 2025-12-10T13:36Z 12.8K followers, XXX engagements
"@peterrhague Its not entirely downstream of British civilization but the other parts tended to be more brutal in colonization. The French. Belgium. Spain"
X Link 2025-12-10T14:12Z 12.8K followers, XXX engagements
"Heck Megawatts of inference by end of 2026 is also pretty likely. Remember theyre planning to put this on basically modified Starlinks launched on Starship"
X Link 2025-12-10T14:42Z 12.8K followers, 4523 engagements
"@heskelbalas Its fine for inference. You can fit an inference node on a single 100kW Starlink"
X Link 2025-12-10T15:16Z 12.8K followers, XXX engagements
"@RyanTScott The blog article mentions cost in a quantitative way nowhere. The same argument applies to Starlink and Starlink is clearly practical"
X Link 2025-12-10T15:27Z 12.8K followers, XX engagements
"@ramez @DrPhiltill Theres already nearly XXX Falcon launches per year so its solvable"
X Link 2025-12-10T15:37Z 12.8K followers, XX engagements
"@RyanTScott The thing is people who are really experienced in their field are anchoring their analysis in traditional satellite and launch tech. Tradiational space solar panels are literally 1000x as expensive as what Starlink uses. Its just a completely different universe"
X Link 2025-12-10T15:38Z 12.8K followers, XX engagements
"@TortureJack Yes. Probably by May"
X Link 2025-12-10T15:39Z 12.8K followers, XX engagements
"@RBehiel Any of these engineers basing their knowledge on Starlink Or traditional satellites"
X Link 2025-12-10T15:41Z 12.8K followers, XXX engagements
"@delmoi Starlink satellites for like v1.5-2 were like $30/Watt to build $30/Watt to launch. early Starship and V3 is about a tenth that say total of $6/Watt. Thats cheaper than nuclear power. Later optimization can bring it to $1-2/Watt total"
X Link 2025-12-10T15:43Z 12.8K followers, 2791 engagements
"@RyanTScott I skimmed it. Too many words. Not enough quantitative calculations. No one disputes orbital datacenters are possible. Whether you can do datacenter calculations cheaper in orbit than the ground is a quantitative question and cannot be resolved with qualitative arguments alone"
X Link 2025-12-10T15:55Z 12.8K followers, XX engagements
"People gonna be mad when AI compute in space is just weird Starlinks starting 2026/7. By the time we actually get large single datacenters in space the idea of substantial AI compute in orbit will already have been normalized & people will forget that they totally dismissed it"
X Link 2025-12-10T16:25Z 12.8K followers, 23.2K engagements
"@WillGFootman How are Starlink satellites coooooooled"
X Link 2025-12-10T17:51Z 12.8K followers, XXX engagements
"@WillGFootman Right so theyll use radiation to cool as well. Radiators smaller than the solar panels"
X Link 2025-12-10T19:29Z 12.8K followers, XXX engagements
"@WillGFootman @PBNiles Why does it have huge solar panels Note that radio transmitters in that range convert most of their input energy into heat"
X Link 2025-12-10T22:01Z 12.8K followers, XXX engagements
"@aardrocks Lower power cost. A watt of solar panels can power XX times as much in orbit as on a dedicated site on the ground due to capacity factor atmospheric attenuation and seasonal variation and you dont need batteries"
X Link 2025-12-10T22:12Z 12.8K followers, XXX engagements
"Details about Starlink AI"
X Link 2025-12-10T22:16Z 12.8K followers, 2704 engagements
"@disruptivedean @JeffNeelzAgain Nope theyd be talking directly with the Starlink constellation not the ground necessarily"
X Link 2025-12-10T22:56Z 12.8K followers, XX engagements
"@disruptivedean @JeffNeelzAgain The first data centers in space will be doing inference. Will be much longer before training is done in orbit. But Starlink lasers can already do like 100Gbps per link and large training satellites could have dozens or hundreds of laser links to Starlink doing Tbps or more"
X Link 2025-12-10T23:02Z 12.8K followers, XX engagements
"@outofwritings @RokoMijic @jenzhuscott Starlink uses silicon cells. At first will be like 20%. Over time will improve by using perovskite tandem cells"
X Link 2025-12-10T23:04Z 12.8K followers, XX engagements
"@outofwritings @RokoMijic @jenzhuscott I think at first Starlink Ai will be marginal in terms of cost advantage. Same or even greater cost. But should be very competitive after a design iteration or two"
X Link 2025-12-10T23:10Z 12.8K followers, XX engagements
"@disruptivedean @JeffNeelzAgain 40000 Starlink satellites each doing Tbps looks pretty good"
X Link 2025-12-10T23:19Z 12.8K followers, XX engagements
"I sure wish Elon led with this instead of the abolish the EU thing. Oh well"
X Link 2025-12-10T23:31Z 12.8K followers, 2307 engagements
"@ranman Why not Its just modding Starlink v3. Theyll do it first as a tech demo"
X Link 2025-12-11T04:12Z 12.8K followers, XXX engagements
"@KenKirtland17 I dont agree at all. SpaceX is sending stuff to Mars the very first window that Starship works and then people the next one after"
X Link 2025-12-11T05:08Z 12.8K followers, 3647 engagements
"100kW is a big satellite. More than any but like huge space stations"
X Link 2025-12-11T22:01Z 12.8K followers, 4596 engagements
"@Tych0_Brahe Elon could sell shares to pay for it if he likes. Note that going public increases the valuation from the last private valuation of like $600B to $1600B. Elon has like 40-45% of the shares so already his shares at that IPO would be more than the whole value of the company before"
X Link 2025-12-11T22:06Z 12.8K followers, XX engagements
"Should I make a mercury switch"
X Link 2025-12-11T22:43Z 12.8K followers, XXX engagements
"@BridgewaterPine How does that work for Starlink today"
X Link 2025-12-12T00:33Z 12.8K followers, XX engagements
"@Spacecolonize Relativity Impulse Starpath are some that do"
X Link 2025-12-12T01:58Z 12.8K followers, XX engagements
"@canraptor_ @Truthful_ast No. Im saying the sizing of the upper stage is to maximize its capacity after refueling"
X Link 2025-12-12T06:16Z 12.8K followers, XX engagements
"@pauleckstein @Neolker @josefprusa @Xaraphim Not the market alone. The CCP plays hard and is willing to sacrifice quality of life for its people in order to keep exports cheap to crush everyone else. Western leaders are signing their own death warrants"
X Link 2025-12-12T14:22Z 12.8K followers, XX engagements
"@Chasing_Nemesis Fundamentally probably need targeted tariffs"
X Link 2025-12-12T14:29Z 12.8K followers, XX engagements