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No, Elon Musk Has Not Unveiled a $13 Billion “StarJet” Space Plane

Space Information Aggregator @spaceinfo@libera.site

Social media posts claiming Elon Musk unveiled a supersonic “StarJet”
space plane are false. The images and specifications circulating online
are entirely fabricated.

The post No, Elon Musk Has Not Unveiled a $13 Billion “StarJet” Space
Plane appeared first on Orbital Today.

https://orbitaltoday.com/2025/12/06/no-elon-musk-has-not-unveiled-a-13-billion-starjet-space-plane/
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#^No, Elon Musk Has Not Unveiled a $13 Billion “StarJet” Space Plane

Social media has been buzzing with dramatic posts alleging that Elon Musk has introduced a futuristic aircraft capable of leaping from a runway to the edge of space in one smooth ascent. According to the viral claims, the so-called StarJet boasts plasma engines, electromagnetic stabilisers, and enough speed to cut global travel down to minutes.

Some posts even suggest journeys such as New York to Tokyo in 58 minutes or Dubai to Sydney in barely over an hour, while others describe a $13 billion SpaceX aircraft defying “all laws of physics”. One widely shared message declared: “Welcome to the next era of humanity.”

Image/photoCredit: FB post from All Anomalien

Fabricated Images and Exaggerated Specs


Despite the confident tone of the posts, none of the aircraft shown is real. The images circulating online are AI-generated, including mock-ups of bright red SpaceX jets and speculative concept planes. Musk has made no announcement about a StarJet, a supersonic space plane, or any aircraft resembling the designs being shared.

The viral captions reference features such as vertical takeoff, micro-rockets, and cruising altitudes of 160,000 ft. However, SpaceX has released no statements confirming such a programme, and no filings, demonstrations, or engineering documents support the claims.

How the Hoax Spread


The posts gained traction by blending sci-fi imagery with familiar rhetoric about Musk “rewriting the rules of physics”. One message stated that SpaceX engineers believe the alleged craft “doesn’t follow the rules of physics — it rewrites them.” Another described airlines as “terrified” and defence agencies as “stunned”, neither of which is supported by evidence.

These stories have been shared across Facebook, YouTube, and fringe pages that often recycle sensationalised or AI-fabricated content. The references to a triple-system engine, space-shuttle-style missions, and claims that the jet will serve as a stepping stone to Mars are likewise fictional.

Image/photoCredit: Global Daily News FB

What SpaceX Is Actually Working On


SpaceX continues to develop real aerospace technology, chiefly the Starship programme, commercial launches, and satellite infrastructure. None of its current projects involves a supersonic passenger jet, nor does any credible aerospace roadmap from the company resemble the capabilities being promoted online.

The StarJet narrative has no basis in SpaceX documentation, public presentations, regulatory filings, or Musk’s own communications.

A Familiar Pattern of Viral Fiction


This hoax follows a growing trend of AI-generated aviation and space-tech fantasies circulating under Musk’s name. The combination of realistic-looking images and extraordinary claims makes them easy to share, but none stand up to scrutiny.

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Alex Vindman here.

The Wall Street Journal broke the news that Trump’s chief negotiator,
Steve Witkoff,
met with Russian oligarchs about lucrative post-war business opportunities.

It’s clear:
Trump’s so-called “peace plan”
is a vehicle for appeasement and personal gain for those in and around the Trump Administration.

The objective isn't peace and stability for Ukraine — it’s money.

There’s no other way to look at this but as corruption at the highest level of our government.

My friend Bridget Brink,
our former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine,
lived through Putin’s nightly missile and drone attacks for three years.

And when Trump appeased Putin instead of standing with Ukraine, she resigned in protest.

Now, Bridget is running Congress to flip a must-win seat.

Bridget will always fight for what’s right.
She was even accused of “focusing too intensely on the issue of corruption.”

Too focused on corruption?

I would argue there is no such thing,
especially when we see what’s happening in Washington right now.

Bridget is exactly the leader we need in Congress.

It’s no surprise Trump’s allies are already attacking Bridget.

They know when she gets to Congress, she’ll hold them accountable.

If you believe in defending democracy and taking on Trump’s corruption,
chip in right now to help Bridget win MI-07 and flip the House.

brink4michigan.org

Thank you,
Alex Vindman

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今度おいしいピザごちそうするね
:blobcatmeltlove:

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Ever had that person where every interaction just ends up awkward. And you don’t know how it’s possible but then bad luck strikes, it somehow happens again. And you grab them by the shoulders, shaking them saying “I’M NOT ACTUALLY LIKE THIS I AM NOT WEIRD I’M VERY NORMAL”

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We wrongly assign intention and goals to AI models like LLMs because we incorrectly assume the nature of their insides based on their outsides.

It is meaningless to talk of AI goals or intent, or at least meaningless to think of them as in any way isomorphic to animal goals or intent, as the mechanism for the production of goals and intent fundamentally does not exist in AI models.

This false theory of cognition is extremely dangerous, because it leads us to waste time on fallacies like AGI/superintelligence wiping out humanity through some misplaced intent + agency.

In reality the risk is both more proximate and more mundane than that, and is the same risk that has been playing out for at least hundreds of years.

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The thing is, animal cognition is inextricably an embodied process. Affect is not a side-effect of cognition but its root.

The fact that we have computerised the production of plausibly similar outputs as those from animal cognition only means that we anthropomorphise the process that produces those plausible outputs.

We wrongly assign intention and goals to AI models like LLMs because we incorrectly assume the nature of their insides based on their outsides.

It is meaningless to talk of AI goals or intent, or at least meaningless to think of them as in any way isomorphic to animal goals or intent, as the mechanism for the production of goals and intent fundamentally does not exist in AI models.

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Seriously, there ought to be a central place where every time an open source project either adds "AI" integration or code generated by "AI", the repo is forked from the last commit before infection so that someone can someday resume from that point.

(I'd have set this up already but I'm at an energy low and will be for a while yet.)

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Watching "once upon a witch's death" on Crunchyroll

Main character: "Genki da [followed by what sounds like] ko res ne".

Even I know enough Japanese to know "Genki da, ne?" Means "she's so lively, right?"

Subtitles: "She's so full of beans!"

…What?

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本当に総理として、あるいは政治家として根本的な能力に欠けている人を総理にしてしまった。

首相の「地方は東京を見習って」発言に違和感 平井知事、県議会で言及 | 日本海新聞 NetNihonkai nnn.co.jp/articles/-/651252

 鳥取県の平井伸治知事は3日の県議会12月定例会本会議で、高市早苗首相と11月19日に面会した際、首相が人口減少問題について「地方は東京を見習って」と発言したことに言及。地方の人口減少の背景には東京一極集中があることを踏まえて「何だろうかなと思った」と違和感を口にした。

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本当に総理として、あるいは政治家として根本的な能力に欠けている人を総理にしてしまった。

首相の「地方は東京を見習って」発言に違和感 平井知事、県議会で言及 | 日本海新聞 NetNihonkai nnn.co.jp/articles/-/651252

 鳥取県の平井伸治知事は3日の県議会12月定例会本会議で、高市早苗首相と11月19日に面会した際、首相が人口減少問題について「地方は東京を見習って」と発言したことに言及。地方の人口減少の背景には東京一極集中があることを踏まえて「何だろうかなと思った」と違和感を口にした。

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