Captain Eli
@TheCaptainEli • 27,828 subscribers
Tesla investor. here to support Elon Musk! https://t.co/bP1dB3xPjb
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In September 2014, Elon stood under a tent on an almost empty beach at the very tip of South Texas, waves crashing just over the dunes, and broke ground on a launch site. In May 2025, he stood in front of a crowd at that same corner of Texas and said it plainly: "not that long ago, there was basically nothing here." Now it's a city. Literally. On May 3, 2025, Starbase voted to incorporate, 212 to 6. In Elon's words, "the first new city made in America in I think quite a few decades." I love the "I think." Even his victory laps come with error bars. What gets me is how it got there. One of the first things to fly was Starhopper, a stubby steel tank on legs that he calls "the original sort of Mad Max rocket." In August 2019 it hopped 150 meters. Then came prototypes that flew, flipped and sometimes exploded in full public view, right next to a public highway. That's his pattern. Pick the thing everyone says is impossible, build it in the open, break it, learn, build the next one, and keep going until the laughing stops. "In the space of about five or six years... we've built a small city... and a gigantic rocket factory for a gigantic rocket." Then in October 2024 the rocket came home and the launch tower caught it. His reaction: "it's really mind-blowing that the SpaceX team has been able to catch the largest flying object ever made multiple times." My favorite detail? You can just go and look. Anyone interested in seeing the largest flying object on Earth "can come here anytime they want and just drive down the public highway and see it." Name another place where you can watch the future get welded together from your car window. Why does a sandbar in Texas matter to me, thousands of kilometers away? Because it proves you don't need permission to build the future. You need a team, a beach, and the stubbornness to stay on it. The mission hasn't changed since the groundbreaking: "to take humanity and civilization and life as we know it to another planet for the first time in the 4 and a half billion year history of Earth." And the line I keep coming back to: "we can be out there among the stars making science fiction no longer fiction." From empty dunes to a city that builds Mars ships. I made a short film about it.
Captain Eli911,099 views • 4 days ago
The main difference between Elon Musk and Scam Altman: Elon Musk actually changes the world for the better and saves lives: Tesla accelerates clean energy and has saved thousands of lives on the roads. SpaceX is making humanity multi-planetary. Starlink connects and saves millions in wars and disasters. Neuralink gives hope to the paralyzed. He pays a very heavy personal price for it — endless attacks, lawsuits, media smears, and a broken personal life. Scam Altman? He mostly just takes. His technology (ChatGPT) still struggles to genuinely help people with real problems — hallucinations, lies, and fabrications instead of real answers. He turned OpenAI from “for the benefit of humanity” into a profit machine. And the suspicious death of whistleblower researcher Suchir Balaji, who was highly critical of OpenAI, still raises serious unanswered questions. One builds the future and saves lives. The other takes the money and plays games.
Captain Eli14,528,998 views • 6 months ago
Elon Musk on why Optimus is so brutally hard to build (hardware side): “The hands are the majority of the engineering difficulty of the entire robot.” Human hands evolved insane sophistication — ~27–28 degrees of freedom, complex tendon web (mostly forearm muscles), crazy dexterity. No supply chain exists. Tesla had to design every single actuator, motor, gearbox & electronics from physics first principles. “Harder than Cybertruck or Model X… somewhere between Model X and Starship.” Optimus v3 finally aiming for true human-level hand performance. The “hands problem” is massively underestimated.
Captain Eli15,635,522 views • 8 months ago
Put me in a box… I love and support Elon Musk. What am i?? (I don’t care)
Captain Eli768,697 views • 3 months ago
2007A 36-year-old Elon Musk sits down for a quiet PBS interview and says, almost casually: “The most important thing we can do for the future of consciousness is to become a multi-planetary species… Everything else pales in comparison.” He then predicts, with zero hype: •Fully reusable rockets that land like airplanes •Electric cars that outperform gasoline in every way and go mass-market •Solar + batteries becoming the cheapest energy on Earth •Humans on Mars and a self-sustaining city there Jeff Bezos was already the richest man on Earth in 2007. He started Blue Origin in 2000 with the exact same “multi-planetary” dream. 18+ years later: Blue Origin has flown exactly zero orbital missions. New Glenn still hasn’t launched. No reusable booster has ever landed. No Mars plan with dates. Elon? •Falcon 9 boosters have landed 400+ times •Starship (bigger than anything ever built) is flying •Tesla sells 2 million cars a year and is worth more than the rest of the car industry combined •Solar + batteries are now the cheapest electricity source in history •First uncrewed Starships to Mars: 2026–2028. Crewed: late 2020s/early 2030s — exactly the timeline he gave in 2007 The vision never wavered. Not once. The enthusiasm is the same calm, burning conviction you hear in that 2007 clip today. The determination? He went personally bankrupt in 2008 keeping SpaceX and Tesla alive with his last dollars. Almost 20 years later, every single “crazy” prediction from that interview is either already reality or on schedule. This is what relentless execution looks like. Watch the 2007 interview (25 minutes that aged like fine wine): He didn’t just dream about the future. He scheduled it. And showed up.
Captain Eli2,722,333 views • 11 months ago
This light show was from out of this world. X Takeover Simon Pollock (né Tesla Light Shows)
Captain Eli109,258 views • 16 days ago
Tesla’s predictive navigation just hit different. I woke up in the car, about to say “Hey Grok, take me to the gym”… and before I could even ask, Tesla already suggested the gym as my #1 destination based on my driving history and routine. Didn’t type anything. Didn’t say anything. It just knew. This feature that learns your common stops is actually super useful.
Captain Eli627,068 views • 4 months ago
Okay so I was sleeping and I’m not entirely sure what it was, but at 3 AM this morning something woke me up. I heard a noise, felt the Tesla moving, and honestly got really scared for a second. I looked for a few seconds and saw kids messing with the charging plug. I opened the window and asked them what they were doing — and of course this is exactly what the best car in the world captured on camera. There’s no system like this in the world, and no car like this either. Thank you Tesla for the security and all the safety features you give us in our Tesla.
Captain Eli269,195 views • 3 months ago
Elon Musk explains the “four R’s” that will make life multiplanetary: Rapidly Reusable Reliable Rockets. The breakthrough is catching the Super Heavy booster with giant mechanical “chopsticks” (Mechazilla arms). No landing legs = no time wasted on leg deployment, pickup, leg retraction, or slow transport. The same tower that stacks the rocket catches it directly after landing and places it straight back on the launch mount in seconds. Booster flight time back to pad: ~5–6 minutes. Refueling + stacking Starship on top: ~30–40 minutes. → In principle, the entire stack could refly every 1–2 hours. Next milestone: catch the Starship upper stage the same way. This extreme rapid reuse is the only path to drastically lower the cost per ton to Mars.
Captain Eli584,207 views • 8 months ago
In 2022, Elon Musk casually dropped that he held the record for the most-liked tweet ever by a living person—4.7M likes on his iconic post: “Next I’m buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in.” 😂 As of January 2026, he still holds this record, with no newer tweet surpassing it. Only Elon can turn a wild, nostalgic joke into the internet’s biggest flex while deadpan explaining why our grandparents had endless energy. The man’s humor, timing, and sheer audacity are unmatched. Legend.
Captain Eli678,208 views • 9 months ago
They are cutting the cables of the fast chargers in France. Source: Telegram
Captain Eli754,980 views • 11 months ago
Did you know? Elon Musk’s first public mention of tunnels solving urban traffic was in a Jan 26, 2016 Hong Kong interview (around min 9): “The problem with cities is that we build cities in 3D, we see tall buildings with lots of people in each floor, but you have roads that are 2D, and that obviously just doesn’t work. You’re guaranteed to have gridlock. Hong Kong is in the process of building some tunnels… that really is a solution of traffic in major cities.” Just days later, he referenced it at the Hyperloop competition at Texas A&M (Jan 29-30). This idea evolved into founding The Boring Company in Dec 2016, sparked by his infamous traffic jam tweet. Comprehensive searches show no earlier interview mentions! Link to the full interview in the first comment below:
Captain Eli712,448 views • 10 months ago
Flashback to July 2022: Elon Musk showing Everyday Astronaut the massive leap from messy Raptor 1 (‘Christmas tree’ vibes 😂) to clean Raptor 2 – 230 tons thrust at 300 bar, tons of parts deleted! Fast-forward to 2026: We’re already on Raptor 3 – 280+ tons thrust, even simpler design, no external pipes, in production (100+ built!), testing like crazy, set for Starship V3 flights soon. Insane progress in ~3.5 years!
Captain Eli510,632 views • 8 months ago