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Joe, Tim, and Ben talk about the Lucid Air performance announcement, another successful Starship hop, and new Nuclear Diamond Battery technology

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Nuclear Diamond Batteries – https://www.wired.com/story/are-radioactive-diamond-batteries-a-cure-for-nuclear-waste/
https://newatlas.com/energy/nano-diamond-self-charging-batteries-ndb/

SpaceX launches a polar orbit from Florida! – https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1300209352528113664?s=20

SN-6 hops! – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQB31yXJCo8&t=2072s

Rocket Lab returns to flight and announces first launch of Photon – https://twitter.com/RocketLab/status/1300592315375869952?s=20

SpaceX launches their 12 Starlink mission – https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1301501933845241856?s=20

Lucid Record – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LRT7bIJcis

Stock Split – https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-y-redesign-giga-berlin-battery-cell-production-details-elon-musk-interview-video/

Deep Fake – https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/02/microsoft-launches-a-deepfake-detector-tool-ahead-of-us-election/

Microsoft Deep Fake Detector – https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/02/microsoft-launches-a-deepfake-detector-tool-ahead-of-us-election/

Why Don’t They Just by @msteudlein – https://twitter.com/msteudlein/status/1301512302307418112

Why Don’t They Just by @RandomSpaceDud2 – https://twitter.com/RandomSpaceDud2/status/1300527956260007936

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Joe, Tim, and Ben talk about the speculated Neuralink demonstration, Raptor engine vs Merlin, and a possible Model 3 Hatchback version.

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Neuralink Demonstration – https://www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-neuralink-v2-brain-implant-machine-reveal-date/

Boca Chica Resort – https://twitter.com/Erdayastronaut/status/1296156292072054785?s=20

Elon talks about Starlink reuse / Raptor reuse – https://twitter.com/nextspaceflight/status/1295734479814684672?s=20

Water Tower VS Launch Mount debate is over – https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1298025540742524928?s=20

Yeah. Occasional flights from land are ok, but frequent (daily) flights probably need ~30km / 18 miles clear area for noise.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 24, 2020

Earths Magnetic Field Anomoly – https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-is-tracking-the-mysterious-evolving-anomaly-in-earth-s-magnetic-field

Model 3 Hatchback – https://insideevs.com/news/440960/tesla-model-3-hatchback-germany-europe/

Lucid 113kWh battery – https://lucidmotors.com/stories/lucid-space-concept-delivers-class-leading-interior-space

ULA scrubs and why that effects the range – https://twitter.com/ulalaunch/status/1298884316282392576?s=20

Donate to Red Cross Hurricane Laura: https://www.redcross.org/donate/hurricane-laura-donations.html/

Help Iowa Derecho Storm Victims: https://commonbond.org/help-iowa-derecho-storm-victims/

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Joe, Tim, and Ben talk about Lucid’s bi-directional charging, Oceans on Ceres, and SpaceX Raptor Engines new record!

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Lucid bi-directional charging – https://lucidmotors.com/media-room/lucid-air-fastest-charging-ev

Another Starlink Mission, 6th flight and another fairing catch!!! – https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1295847382073171970?s=20

Ms Tree catches fairing in her net pic.twitter.com/sqlJ63NetB

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 18, 2020

Raptor Shatters a pressure record! – https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1295495834998513664?s=20
(old record) – https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1094782854007910400?s=20

SN-6 gets ready for a hop, there’s a new water tower debate, and high bay progress gets crazy! – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK87zJ3c7uE

Betelgeuse Dust Storm – https://www.sciencealert.com/betelgeuse-s-weird-dimming-finally-confirmed-to-be-caused-by-dust-cloud

Undergound Ocean on Dwarf Planet Ceres – https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-bright-spots-on-dwarf-planet-ceres-point-to-secret-underground-ocean

Face Depixelizer – https://www.theverge.com/21298762/face-depixelizer-ai-machine-learning-tool-pulse-stylegan-obama-bias

Real Version of face depixelizer – https://topazlabs.com/

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Joe, Tim, and Ben talk about the Lucid Air’s estimated range, ULA and SpaceX splitting a US Defense contract, and new brick-to-battery technology

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Ken Block to use EV – https://www.grandtournation.com/cars/ken-block-will-be-racing-in-an-all-electric-ford-fiesta-with-600hp/

New Ioniq EVs – https://electrek.co/2020/08/10/hyundai-ioniq-ev-brand/

Tenacity Plane – https://www.space.com/dream-chaser-space-plane-tenacity-tour.html

Lucid Air gets 517mi EPA estimate – https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/11/the-all-electric-lucid-air-gets-an-estimated-epa-range-of-517-miles/

Largest Nuclear Fision Project – https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2020/08/07/iter-the-worlds-largest-nuclear-fusion-project-a-big-step-forward/#4646150d5e2c

Super Capacitor made from Bricks – https://futurism.com/the-byte/bricks-supercapacitor-battery?mc_eid=95229cfad5&mc_cid=9f489f0dcb

Starlink speeds – https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/i8n1s5/here_is_a_summary_of_the_recently_found_starlink/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

SN-5 / SN-6 side by side again – https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1293249680445526018

SN-6 on the launch pad! – https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1293667727891206145?s=20

ULA & SpaceX win major defense contracts! – https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2305576/space-force-awards-national-security-space-launch-phase-2-launch-service-contra/

Why Don’t They Just by @endigo – https://twitter.com/endigo/status/1293563989742452739

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Joe, Tim, and Ben talk about Demo-2 Mission Splashdown, Starship hopping, and a smaller Cybertruck for the EU market.

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Smaller Cybertruck for EU – https://electrek.co/2020/08/04/tesla-smaller-cybertruck-europe-elon-musk/

EV West Speed Record – https://cleantechnica.com/2020/08/04/ev-west-aims-for-speed-record-with-tesla-powered-lakester/

Mysterious Circular Objects in the sky – https://www.livescience.com/circular-radio-objects-space.html?utm_source=notification&fbclid=IwAR2Nz4iJnp7v1QyFLIQjmmz2rMVOoPJZy89ZJboqZYx7pNSodoKS_14fY_4

Bob and Doug Come home from DM-2 – https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1289674029624745984?s=20

The forward hatch is closed on the @SpaceX Dragon Endeavour to seal up the spacecraft for departure: pic.twitter.com/VNQdpWKlSy

— NASA (@NASA) August 1, 2020

Undocking sequence initiated for an on time departure at 7:34 p.m. EDT https://t.co/bJFjLCzWdK pic.twitter.com/3pxvHoNj5x

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 1, 2020

Dragon's four main parachutes have deployed pic.twitter.com/iU5Uy7lHbM

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 2, 2020

Good splashdown of Dragon confirmed! Welcome back to Earth, @AstroBehnken and @Astro_Doug! pic.twitter.com/0vAS3CcK9P

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 2, 2020

.@AstroBehnken and @Astro_Doug have been lifted out of the water and are aboard the Go Navigator. Welcome home. #LaunchAmerica pic.twitter.com/gjqUcLMy8X

— NASA (@NASA) August 2, 2020

Tracking footage of Crew Dragon’s descent, parachute deployments and splashdown pic.twitter.com/pzbm1iXCC6

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 4, 2020

SN-5 hops! – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugVZ41USN_0&t=104s

Starship takes flight pic.twitter.com/IWvwcA05hl

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 5, 2020

Starship liftoff and landing photos → https://t.co/095WHX44BX pic.twitter.com/S2xooN5mt4

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 5, 2020

Rocket Lab is back and better than ever! – https://twitter.com/RocketLab/status/1291182725437616128?s=20

This week was a big one for the recovery team. We conducted the final drop test and passed with flying colors. Next step is the real thing – bringing Electron's 1st stage back under a chute on Flight 17! pic.twitter.com/KFUrvBm6S1

— Rocket Lab (@RocketLab) August 6, 2020

Same rocket, more payload. We’re excited to announce that we’ve increased Electron’s payload capacity to 300 kg (660 lbs) to enable interplanetary missions and to support reusability! Learn more: https://t.co/elFvPyLlxn pic.twitter.com/0tWoCLPgRs

— Rocket Lab (@RocketLab) August 4, 2020

Bigger fairing – https://www.rocketlabusa.com/assets/Uploads/Rocket-Lab-Launch-Payload-Users-Guide-6.5.pdf

Virgin Orbit wraps up their investigation – https://virginorbit.com/wrapping-up-our-first-launch-demo-and-looking-ahead-to-launch-demo-2/

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Joe, Tim, and Ben talk about the Mars mission Perseverance launch, Tesla’s announced 20% energy density increase, and Virgin Galactic’s interior reveal.

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20% Increase in battery capacity – https://electrek.co/2020/07/30/tesla-batteries-energy-density-increase-panasonic/

Hummer details and photos – https://electrek.co/2020/07/29/gmc-hummer-electric-pickup-new-pictures-features/

Perseverance launches to Mars – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcd7ePJ6nf8

#MarsPerseverance on its way to the Red Planet… pic.twitter.com/8XeEehuml8

— Tory Bruno (@torybruno) July 30, 2020

SN-5 Scrubs again and again and again and again – https://youtu.be/gNlS-mgyJAE

I was just out at the launch pad. Connector damaged in the storm, but fixed now. Might be able to fire tonight or at least get to the next issue.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 28, 2020

DM-2 will return home this weekend – https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1288567576210145288?s=20

Virgin Galactic cabin reveal – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC286Dnq4M4

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Joe, Tim, and Ben talk about Elons promises for Neuralink, Tesla’s expansion to Texas and beyond, and a slew of recent Mars launches.

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Vulcan Heavy?!?! – https://twitter.com/Erdayastronaut/status/1286124364920950785?s=20

SpaceX Re-using Dragon Capsule – https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1286312153193029633

Austin Gigafactory Photos – https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/22/21334860/tesla-cybertruck-factory-austin-texas-location-model-y

UAE launches their first Mars Probe – https://everydayastronaut.com/al-amal-emirates-mars-mission-prelaunch-preview/

Tianwen-1 Launch to Mars – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S88DiWoIy7M

Tianwen 1 | Long March 5 | Prelaunch Preview

Tesla Q2 Results – https://ir.tesla.com/static-files/f41f4254-f1cc-4929-a0b6-6623b00475a6

SpaceX Anasis-II launch – https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1285326250806964225?s=20

Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the Just Read the Instructions droneship pic.twitter.com/fPbckYFySh

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) July 20, 2020

(Double Catch Fairing) https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1285632260721573890?s=20

Music in your brain – https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-neuralink-stream-music-brians

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Joe, Tim, and Ben talk about news on Starlink internet, Model S+X getting V3 charging, and the scientific breakthrough in chromosome sequencing!

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Starlink Terminal Leaked – https://twitter.com/flcnhvy/status/1283140198621224975?s=21

S/X get 250kW charging – https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-s-x-250kw-v3-supercharging/

Twitter Hack – https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/15/21326200/elon-musk-bill-gates-twitter-hack-bitcoin-scam-compromised

Model 3 Depreciation (nonsense) – https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-3-does-not-depreciate-study/

Giga Berlin Render – https://cleantechnica.com/2020/07/15/elon-musk-shares-pic-fun-notes-on-tesla-giga-berlin/

A minotaur IV launches for NROL-129 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR2Nub7RS_o
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minotaur_IV

Solar orbiter images / update – https://youtu.be/WyrgJfPo4dg
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/solar-orbiter-returns-first-data-snaps-closest-pictures-of-the-sun

Why Don’t They Just Reconfigure Starship – https://twitter.com/eddy85br/status/1282346917310201857?s=20

Scientists Sequence X-Chromosome – https://phys.org/news/2020-07-scientists-human-chromosome.html?fbclid=IwAR2LOvNJhjnRJAOOyGeMl_2FW8cK4T35tdw5RoSrfInfgrGaNZbO_iG5V48

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Joe, Tim, and Ben talk about Rocket Lab’s failed Electron Launch, The no-longer mysterious green Moon goo, and Lucid’s plan to develop a sales and service network in the US.

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Elon Says FSD is close – https://electrek.co/2020/07/09/tesla-tsla-elon-musk-level-5-autonomy-complete/

Lucid Service Network – https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1128777_lucid-nationwide-service-air-electric-car-20-stores-open-by-late-2021

Canoo Electric Van – https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1128759_jay-leno-drives-canoo-s-subscription-only-electric-van

Green Moon Goo Explained – https://www.cnet.com/news/weird-green-gel-like-substance-found-on-the-moon-finally-identified/

Shrimpy Energy Storage – https://cleantechnica.com/2020/07/08/tiny-little-shrimp-could-spark-huge-energy-storage-breakthrough/

Rocket Lab has their first operational failure – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZcZoDFYjXc
https://www.rocketlabusa.com/news/updates/rocket-lab-mission-fails-to-reach-orbit/
(Scott’s video) – https://youtu.be/ayYgPdk0VVc?t=330

High Bay getting built quick! – https://twitter.com/BocaChicaGal/status/1280861327955804161?s=20

Bluezilla crane and its little helper at the Boca Chica Space X Build Site.@elonmusk
. #SpaceX #RGV #STARSHIP #Bocachica https://t.co/dGpvgoDEmt for the full online gallery 🛩️📷🚀 07/06 pic.twitter.com/ULhogKGNiC

— RGVAerialPhotography (@RGVaerialphotos) July 7, 2020

Isreal launches a rocket backwards – https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/07/06/israel-successfully-places-surveillance-satellite-into-orbit/

Liquid Batteries – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSawQl8Lf1Y

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Joe, Tim, and Ben talk about Tesla’s production numbers, SLS progress, and creepy quantum popcorn

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Nikola takes Pre-Orders for Electric Pickup- https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a33001530/nikola-badger-deposits-electric-pickup/

Tesla Q2 Deliveries Win – https://ir.tesla.com/news-releases/news-release-details/tesla-q2-2020-vehicle-production-deliveries

Spooky Quantum Effects – https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/quantum-human-scale-ligo-mit-nature-a9596056.html

LIGO Interferometer – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxExuoEZV1k

Blue Origin Delivers the first BE4 for ULA’s Vulcan – https://twitter.com/ulalaunch/status/1278381463168184321?s=20

Bob Behnken and Chris Cassidy do an EVA to replace batteries – https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/07/01/iss-eva-66/

SLS updates – https://twitter.com/NASA_SLS/status/1276288677992431616
https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/nasa-checks-out-sls-core-stage-avionics-for-artemis-I-mission.html

Technicians ready two @NASA_SLS rocket boosters for mating to the rocket’s two aft skirts on June 19th, inside the Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility at @NASAKennedy. Together, the twin boosters provide more than 75 percent of the total SLS thrust at launch.#Artemis 🚀 pic.twitter.com/GJHbeLjH9e

— NASA's Exploration Ground Systems (@NASAGroundSys) June 24, 2020

SpaceX Starship SN5 passes cryo-test –

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