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    This Week Tesla & Companies

    We welcome with open clear skies and calm waters the return of SpaceX Dragon. The spacecraft expected to reenter earth's atmosphere five hours after detaching from the International Space Station around 8:23AM EST. Anticipated splashdown off the coast of California somewhere south southwest of...
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    This Week Tesla & Companies

    We welcome with open clear skies and calm waters the return of SpaceX Dragon. The spacecraft expected to reenter earth's atmosphere five hours after detaching from the International Space Station around 8:23AM EST. Anticipated splashdown off the coast of California somewhere south southwest of...
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    This Week Tesla & Companies

    "Tesla is a drama magnet." Ain't it the truth. So why does Elon do it? Some on easy street might wonder. Why does Musk, Chief Executive, of two competitive companies divvy up his time between SpaceX and Tesla. They're like siblings. The elder for this article's purpose being SpaceX. The favored...
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    This Week Tesla & Companies

    Tesla reports Q4 2017 earnings and forecasts growth for 2018. This after managing a rough and tumble manufacturing year with Model 3. Tesla has worked out those S curve maneuvers alongside an eruption of lawsuits. Speculatively, a result of Q3 numbers not being what some investors anticipated...
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    Tesla Powerpack Mini Me Available Now

    Okay so I mentioned these early in holiday shopping season. Anticipate they won't last long so get multiples. Go!
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    This Week Tesla & Companies

    This week's installment inspired by reddit discussion thread. Found it quite insightful as to logic behind why folks are either all in on the rails or skirting outer realms of SpaceX mission impossible cumulative probable possibilities. The company being in the news much lately when successful...
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    This Week Tesla & Companies

    2006-2017 49 overall launches 44 Falcon 9 13 Dragon 2018- 52 Launch Customers No one can argue SpaceX had a phenomenal year. Capping an awesome launch record. Sits at 49 overall. Falcon 9 boosting 44 of those liftoffs. 13 of which were flown with Dragon. 2018 stands to be another record...
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    This Week Tesla & Companies

    Realized I left out a very important step in the relationship progression example I used by way of intro post before last. When he lets you drive it. Hot ticket item. Tesla stocks rise as markets recognize PepsiCo in semi preorder driver seat. They've joined the queue with their 100 truck buy...
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    This Week Tesla & Companies

    2017 promises to end for Tesla coming down on positive side of that production slope for Model 3. Have you noticed the periodic buzz reports of inventory being spotted here and there? Recently though it's all about the semi. Preorders are rolling in and this is looking like a repeat of Model 3's...
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    This Week Tesla & Companies

    To Where'ere Our Hearts Shall Thrust Us When a man finds the vehicle. You know she's the apple of his eye. If he lets you have a peep at it? You're cool. If he permits getting up close to touch and tinker? He respects your opinion. Find yourself in the passenger seat along for a ride...
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    This Week Tesla & Companies

    Got any leftovers? No worries. Make soup. Turkey hash is a favorite this time of year. Then again any dish that has rice as one of its ingredients makes my list. Home's where the heart is. No matter where we choose to roam off grid. Or gather for comforts. Sharing stories with families and...
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    This Week Tesla & Companies

    Where did 2017 go? A lot has transpired and inspired. While other matters rendered us mute with frustration. It's all good. As they say what doesn't keel us over. Tesla is all lit up with awesome. Even amidst recent challenges seasoned with some unsavory news. Thursday's semi event was done up...
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    Tesla Semi Unveil Takeaways

    Okay so it was a WOW factor. Nothing new there. Consistent with Tesla brand semi tickles ALL my gadgetaholic wanna tinker and touch it tendencies. Normal since personal Tesla discovery moment. I would add looks good enough to taste but that might be a bit much for some minds to wrap around...
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    Tesla & Companies Turkey Talks

    It was very disheartening to me learning SpaceX represented by Elon Musk has entered into contractual agreements with Turkey to launch satellites and is in apparent car business talks. Which means Tesla's brand may become a part of Turkish culture. A blemish on Turkey's history is the Armenian...
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    SpaceX and Turkey. Really, Elon?

    Surprised there's not more chatter on here about this. Have to say, long term, I don't like it. Although it has lucrative appeal. Elon Musk says he's not in it for profit. Then why is Turkey necessary in expanding internationally? How does a country whose politics (current and historical) are a...
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    This Week Tesla & Companies

    Hats. To write well can be existential. Scribes, if so gifted, possess an ability to visit other physical and or material worlds. Peruse varying mindsets. Often requiring, in a sense, becoming part of these persons or things for best comprehension. Interactively speaking. Learning tool? Sounds...
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    This Week Tesla & Companies

    If you're a happy and you know it Tesla car owner you're probably shaking your head over this week's heightened media stories about the electric car company. Whereas investors are either scouting some legal office or steady trying to wrap their minds and money around Tesla's core values. Namely...
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    This Week Tesla And Companies

    "The drive by media." Over past few years don't permit much of what I hear or read to make it within even filtering range of my mental processes. Often it's a regurgitating experience. We exist in times that news has become a question mark? A thing to be bought sold refurbished repackaged by its...
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    Stargazing Tonight Anyone?

    You might peep Uranus! It's my favorite.
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    Tesla Powerpack South Australia Celebration

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    By Popular Demand

    As y'all know Elon held an AMA on reddit for SpaceX followers yesterday. It went well. Tesla on reddit is hoping for a Q&A out there. Super sensitive deets surrounding the company but definitely doable. I quoted in comment to reddit inquiry, Elon Musk in response to one of Saturday's questions...
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    This Week Tesla and Companies

    Everyday's a holiday if you love what you do. Like my Grandma once said to me though, "Wait til the love wears off." Reality checked. Tesla is deep in production hell of much anticipated Model 3. Upwards of 450,000 anxiously patient customers are in the order queue. Meanwhile the pressure...
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    This Week Tesla & Companies

    Don't know about you but I am still riding SpaceX's Mars Mission and More. Digiverse has been lit with opinions discussions and afterglow thoughts. Quantum STEM stuff. An OTD moment brought to us by NASA Astronaut Mark T. Vande Hei @Astro_Sabot who tweeted out, "Happy Anniversary @Spacex Dragon...
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    This Week Tesla & Companies

    Wild ride. Pretty cool phrase. Nails the week Tesla and collaborative companies have had. Let's recap, shall we? Michigan still has a car industry. It's going electric. Tesla's tool and die facility, formerly Riviera Tool and Die Co., at 5460 Executive Parkway SE was among buildings sold for...
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    SpaceX - We'll Zip You Anywhere on Earth In 60 Minutes Or Less

    In a widely anticipated talk webcasted LIVE, SpaceX Founder/CEO, Elon Musk gives an update on the company's Earth to Mars mission. The 68th International Astronautical Congress (IAC2017) was held last week, September 25-29 in Adelaide, Australia. Firing up the boosters early on, Australia...
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    Net Neutrality

    There's soon to be a vote on retaining Pai as FCC Chairman. We need this NOT to happen. Why are issues surrounding Net Neutrality important for Tesla and its partner companies? Technology. Technology. Technology. Translation, software coding none of it is useful without the internet. Which...
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    This Week Tesla & Companies

    Circumspect. Cool word. Certainly a term Tesla seems to be employing when asked to comment on developing it's own Autopilot chip in partnership with AMD. From what I can sketch out, and there are few confirmed details, the electric car manufacturer wants to bring the technology (aka artificial...
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    To Create and Innovate are Synonymous

    In order to reap the full benefits of sustainability we must sow seed of responsibility. None can dismiss the devastation recent major storms have left behind in Texas Florida Puerto Rico and other Carribbean isles along their path. Less covered by mainstream media was the 7.1 magnitude...
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    I Didn't Do Anything Alone

    A clergyman said of me years ago, "You're quite accomplished." I had submitted career credentials in offering my experience to the organization's administrative offices. I believed they were doing a good work. Wanted to assist in furthering a sincere rightful cause. Which turned out to be on a...
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    SpaceX Tesla Reel Time

    So I send my pre MBA STEM credits ladened resume to SpaceX for a very entry level numbers related role. As sort of an experiment. Truth be told tenacious imaginative and persistent I may be. Still believe in Universal law. To receive courtesy of a lift up you should show ability to meet your...
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    This Week Tesla & Companies

    Tesla announces its plans to establish a factory in Shanghai. Further strengthening China as an electric car maker. When I saw a buzz meet on YouTube questions being fielded to CEO Elon Musk included production for China. Got me excited about FINALLY American manufactured goods being exported...
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    SpaceX Dragon XII Welcome Back Splash

    Cue volume up Star Trek Enterprise television series intro theme song, "It's been a long road, To get from there to here. It's been a long time, but my time is finally here." Indeed many spatial miles have been journeyed by SpaceX Dragon. Today's splash land into the Pacific off Southern...
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    Novel Idea to Ease Angst of Waiting

    So I'm thinking about once that deposit's on the ledger and, of course, the wait. Flashback to that Discovery Channel, Overhaulin, show that turns hunks of classic junk into restoration masterpieces on wheels. How awesome would it be to give as like a receipt or promissory note the sketch or...
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    You've Come A Long Way Baby

    ICYMI viraling now... My That was totally wicked! LMeffin@$$ off favs: 1) Drunk...while doing James Brown (actual legs broke) 2) Timberrr... nailed it. 3) Not in the Mood to straight stick it, landing that is. Artistic interpretation of leaning Tower of PISA, instead.
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    Sustainable Energy - A Family Affair

    Have to share. Especially after conversation over dinner outdoors with a very beautiful human being. What were we discussing over wine spaghetti and meatballs? Tesla. Sustainable energy. Etc... what's really awesome is how natural it feels for me to recommend so passionately a brand I don't yet...
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    STEM Trends Futuristic Fashion Codename: X ^3 S Y E

    Here's the thing with term interplanetary. It has an origin. Like a finite point from which it stems. An ideal serving as cohesion material between completely independent bodies. SpaceX and Tesla. Two different companies. Completely separate but semi similar industries. They share common...
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    Tesla Must Be the "Volvo" brand of Autonomous Vehicle Manufacturers

    The House has unanimously given a GO to measure which could see fully autonomous vehicles on U.S. roads without restrictions. Obvious regulations on licensing registration will vary state to state but there will be far fewer limits, if any, on the number of driverless cars a manufacturer can...
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    SpaceX Mornings Like This

    Elon Musk says we explore interplanetary possibilities so that, "When you think about the future. You can be happy about the future. Not sad or depressed." Today's launch of Falcon 9 X37B, OTV5 from LC39A had future feels. As in best way to begin the day. Being optimistic over what future holds...
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    Think Tank Fodder

    Gleans from current reads, "Thus one species of evil is balanced by another; thus the fury of one element is repressed by the power of the other. In the midst of this great, astonishing equipoise, Man struggles and lives." Hector St. John de Crèvecoeure Recommends for future, Humanity exists...
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    Financing Tesla - A Digital Dowry of Sorts

    I am still in hustle mode on a narrow path to get in that Tesla wait queue. Meanwhile continue learning everything possible about what makes her, go, and that most efficiently. A girl prone to classic remakes and models it wasn't until a friend introduced me to Tesla Model S this summer that got...
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    Got a Complaint Suggestion or Concern? Tweet It

    Came across this little gem of a tidbit. I am a proponent of using social media to get faster more efficient action response from companies when there's a legitimate issue. Mind you there must be balance struck between what is or is not an escalated situation. Tendency is to hop on social media...
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    Autonomous Key

    So many buyers of Tesla models, particularly 3, are opting out of the fully integrated autopilot software option. Mind you it includes pre installation of full autonomous features operational at some future point. But not yet. These car buyers are saying they'll pass. Maybe that's wise based...
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    Integration at it's Finest

    I've a personal law predicated upon principle when donating things to charity. If I can't or don't want to use or wear it why would anyone else. Clear line differentiates what gets a new owner and junk marked for reincarnation. Recycling is a beautiful thing. What does that got to do with Tesla...
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    Tesla Fulfilling it's Primary Mission: Harnessing the Sun as Sustainable Clean Energy Source

    If you exist in the Modern Age then you're hearing hybrids, now completely regenerated electric cars or EVs, are classified as yesterday's next big thing. What's happening now on digiverse news horizon are fully autonomous vehicles. Run solely by alternative energy. What's more to love about...
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    Tesla - Single Charge Keeps Going & Going...

    See a lot of chatting on U.S. forums about how long and far a single charge will take you in a Tesla. Thing about Europeans and cars. They tend to shut up about it. Their theme: "Just drive." Indeed. Record Mondiale Autonomia Tesla – Tesla World Range Record – Tesla Owners Italia
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    Tesla Makes History - Again II

    "Even the town mathematician confessed that he could make nothing of so dark a problem. X, everybody knew, was an unknown quantity; but in this case (as he properly observed), there was an unknown quantity of X." X-ing A Paragrab, Edgar Allan Poe No question, to even any with dimmest of a...
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    Tesla Makes History - Again

    Tonight Tesla hopes to make automotive history again. Delivering much anticipated Model 3s to anxious prepaying customers. These having put their money where their most principled proud hearts lie. Showing faith in the electric car brand by investing a deposit of $1,000. Okay they paid to be at...
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    Tesla Makes History - Again

    Tonight Tesla hopes to make automative history again. Delivering much anticipated Model 3s to anxious prepaying customers. These having put their money where their most principled proud hearts lie. Showing faith in the electric car brand by investing a deposit of $1,000. Okay they paid to be at...
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    Jetson Age - Transportation Infrastructure of the Future

    Creating buzz in the digiverse or an announcement, as it were, by Elon Musk that local officials have given a verbal nod to a Northeast corridor hyperloop. And if you're not up to speed on supersonic verbiage let me break it down for us everyday high speed commuters. If your day begins at least...