Elon Musk breaks down how he found the only piece of American coastline SpaceX could launch from There was no site search team. Elon: "I was just literally looking at satellite images" Orbit is a sideways problem, not an upward one. Elon: "the gravity at the altitude of the space station is almost the same as it is on the ground" Elon: "it's actually moving around the Earth at 17,000 miles an hour" Which decides the geography for you. Elon: "you want to launch eastward, so that you can take advantage of Earth's rotation to get to orbit" That rules out almost everything. Elon: "almost really all of Florida, except for Cape Canaveral, is wall to wall houses on the beach" Elon: "one of the few spots that wasn't occupied was the area just adjacent to the border with Mexico" There was a reason nobody wanted it. Elon: "there was at one point a development that was going to take place, but then a hurricane came and destroyed the entire place, and in fact rearranged the land, so some of the plots were underwater" And leaving the country was never an option. Elon: "it needed to be US land, because rocket technology is an advanced weapons technology"

Elon Musk explains why you should never charge an electric car to 100% The last 20% is not a small ask. Elon: "getting from 80 to 100, it takes about as much time as getting from 0 to 80" It runs backwards from how people fuel a car. Elon: "it's a little counterintuitive, because for a gasoline car you would fill it up" Inside the battery, ions are looking for somewhere to go. Elon: "the lithium ions are trying to find a parking space" Elon: "when the parking lot's empty, they can zip right in there and find a spot, it's easy" Elon: "as the parking lot gets full, just like trying to find a parking space at a mall, you have to hunt around for a spot" So on a road trip the rule flips. Elon: "you actually want to charge to about 80%, and then run it down all the way to 10%, or less"

Elon Musk on how to win at life if the simulation theory is true: Elon: "I do have a theory of why, if simulation theory is true, then it is actually very likely that the most interesting outcome is the most likely. Because only the simulations that are interesting will continue. The simulators will stop any simulations that are boring, because they're not interesting." Joe: "But here's the question about the simulation theory. Is the simulation run by anyone, or is..." Elon: "It would be run by someone. The program, like, in this reality that we live in, we run simulations all the time. When we try to figure out if the rocket's gonna make it, we run thousands, sometimes millions of simulations, just to figure out which path is the good path for the rocket, and where can it go wrong, where can it fail." "But when we do these millions of simulations of what can happen with the rocket, we ignore the ones where everything goes right, because we have to address the situations where it goes wrong." "For AI simulations as well, all these things, we keep the simulations going that are the most interesting to us." "So if simulation theory is accurate, if it is true, who knows, then the simulators will only continue to run the simulations that are most interesting. Therefore, from a Darwinian perspective, the only surviving simulations will be the most interesting ones." "The only rule is you must keep it interesting, or the boring simulations will be terminated."