Brian “Marshall” Gallagher

Gallagher, energy building maniac, ROARED! At SunPower and Qcells he SOARED! Now Eyes on the Stars; To the Moon or to Mars? Cast off for new shores, UNMOORED!

@rimonhamo @NASAAdmin Webb is a microscope, very small area at very high detail, this is the wide shot capturing huge amounts of data similar to Hubble resolution in much broader directions (100 Hubbles at once basically)

@NASAAdmin Comparing it to James Webb how does it perform better.

Roman is launching ahead of schedule and under budget, a testament to the extraordinary teams across NASA and industry who turned an ambitious vision into reality. This mission will transform how we see the universe and help answer questions humanity has pursued for generations. Looking forward to launch.

@LunarCitizens @NASAAdmin @johnkrausphotos Falcon lift capability is great and certainly a key factor however putting together a one of a kind telescope to unlock the mysteries of the universe is certainly a perfect payload for NASA to be launching ahead of time and under budget

@NASAAdmin @johnkrausphotos That’s because of Falcon Heavy’s reliability and low cost. It doesn’t really have much to do with NASA, does it?😂😂😂

Lez go looking at the big picture, love seeing an awesome new instrument to observe the universe get launched, especially to a Lagrange point for posterity, would be amazing to boost Hubble out as well with a lil impulse space tug or dragon ride!

Our renovated lobby is now open to the public. Stop by to immerse yourself in the Golden Age of exploration. YOU are the Artemis generation.

Warren Buffett: "The bottom 2% in terms of income in the United States, the bottom 5%, and for sure the top 1% all live better than John D. Rockefeller was living when I was six years old." "John D. Rockefeller was the richest man in the world and, today, you can get better medicine, better education, better entertainment, better transportation. You can do everything better than he could." "When I was born, the dentist didn't use novocaine!"

Problems in Paris

@laurenlself A- buena vista, sailing, and head north to redwoods and wine country

You just won a 2-week, all-expenses-paid vacation. But there’s a catch: you have to stay within one region the whole time. What are you picking?

Live Like Superman - Soak up the Sun - Move your Body - Spread joy and love

RUD (rapid unscheduled disassembly) events are not unusual in the rocket world

We go where we need to be, and today that was @NASAKennedy. Some of my senior engineers and I spent time at @blueorigin with @JeffBezos and @davill, speaking with the workforce and seeing the damage at LC-36 firsthand. I appreciated the opportunity to hear directly from those working through the aftermath and better understand the challenges ahead. There is a lot of work to do, but this is exactly why people choose careers in aerospace, whether at NASA, Blue Origin, or across the industry. The talent in this field thrives under pressure and performs at its best when solving the toughest problems. We have been saying for months at NASA that we are not going to sit on our hands and wait for the capabilities necessary to achieve the nation’s most pressing objectives. We are going to take an active role alongside our partners, just as we did in the 1960s, to overcome setbacks, remove obstacles, and deliver the intended outcomes. @NASA is committed to helping the Blue team recover, continue to advance their lunar lander and get New Glenn back to launching as soon as safely possible. America’s greatest achievements in space were never the result of avoiding setbacks. They came from overcoming them. We have done it before, and we will do it again🇺🇸

Conan O'Brien used his Harvard University commencement speech to argue that humility and the human connection matter far more than any diploma. "I always recognize the enormous role of luck in my life. Refusing to see how luck has played a role in anyone's success is simply ignorant. Many people are happy to mistake a lucky poker hand for their own brilliance, and fighting that human instinct has kept me sane. "I honestly believe that community, spontaneity, and a real commitment to humility has helped me build a rich life that means much more to me than any diploma. And believe me, I'm not saying the goal is to renounce accomplishments, but rather to metabolize them. If you carry your victories lightly, other qualities –- kindness, originality, courage, humor, and humanity –- have room to emerge. "Maybe the greatest lessons I've learned along these lines have been through my 24 travel shows. I have degraded myself in Cuba, Ghana, Korea, Armenia, half of Europe, Argentina, Thailand, Mexico, and Greenland, where I visited a real estate office and tried to buy the country. When I travel to another land, every quality I have discussed -- community, adaptation, and a sincerely humble approach -- are all necessary. When you don't speak the language, no one truly cares where you went to college, and you have no choice but to make friends. "It's on these travels that I learned a great lesson: let yourself be bad at things. I have been a bad dancer in every country I have visited. But the people laugh because it turns out everyone everywhere is related to at least one terrible dancer. For me, humility on these trips can easily lead to humiliation, which is also a useful tool. "Three weeks ago, I visited Amsterdam, dressed up as Van Gogh, and forced my way into the Van Gogh Museum, where I started loudly demanding a cut of the merchandising because I made no money during my lifetime. Guards forcibly ejected me. I was roundly mocked by patrons for my pathetic display. But I did see a lot of smiles. And not one person said, now that's a Harvard grad. "In Tokyo, I met with a teacher of Japanese etiquette who volunteered I wasn't her type. And when I asked her why, she just said, 'face.' In Ghana, after accepting a royal invitation, I was kicked out of the Ashanti Palace by the Queen Mother, because her favorite soap opera was starting. "I understand that I am preaching modesty and connection at a time when this is not in style. We are living through a period of extreme narcissism. Our current leadership in Washington believes that empathy is a weakness and that our nation stands supreme and alone. Add to that, everyone here today has a phone in their pocket that is algorithmically programmed to celebrate you and you alone by making you the protein-maxing hero of your own special journey. "Much has been written about how isolated and siloed we've become, but for me, the antidote is quite simple. By de-emphasizing what makes us special — in your case, a prized degree — we can really find one another, not as an exercise in virtue, but as a path towards greater laughter, love, and real growth."

The entire event yesterday, launching missions, landers, rovers, tech demos building a Moon Base, and sci-fi capabilities like MoonFall, brought to you by those who Dare Mighty Things. Just the very beginning. What a time 🇺🇸

Memorial Day is a time to honor and remember the people that gave their lives for our country. To those who put our nation before themselves, and to their family and friends left behind, we honor your sacrifice.

Agreed when you are rocking an umbrella to hide from the sun like this clearly you are dancing senselessly with the noise vs following the signals respect the goal of longevity however my preferred methodology is more naturally healthy to maintain myself til technology ye mentioned arrives and delivers elvish level immortality

Avoiding sun is being extremely bearish on the longevity/ biotech thesis Assume we will have peptides for everything. Retroviral DNA upgrades. Nanobot healing glands. Nature wants us dead at 35. Science will have us live to see the stars burn out.

Memorial Day means family to me. Today I honor a lineage of service beginning with my Great Great Grandfather Michael Charles Gallagher who fled famine in Ireland and joined the Union during the civil war before settling in Iowa and having 15 children! One of Michael’s grandsons, my grandfather Coast Guardsman Yeoman Harry Gallagher manned an antiaircraft gun aboard a tank landing ship in some of the fiercest fighting of the Pacific at Iwo Jima and Okinawa My Grandmother Mary, who served in World War II in Washington D.C. as one of the hundred thousand women who pioneered women’s service as a Navy WAVE to alleviate critical shortages of manpower and whose exemplary service led to the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act of 1948. On my mothers side, my Grandpa was Army Lt. Col. Richard Shade a career officer who began his service as a young Lieutenant and deployed straight into the Korean War in 1950. He rose through the ranks to Lieutenant Colonel and served again in Vietnam. Stationed overseas multiple times— he and Grandma Jacqueline raised their four children through years of moves, deployments, and dedication to duty. Their courage built the world I live in. Thank you, Great Great Grandfather Michael, Grandpa Harry, Grandma Alice, and Grandpa Dick and every soldier who has made the ultimate sacrifice to secure the freedom and prosperity of civilization from the tyranny of oppression. 🇺🇸

@SciGuySpace An unreasonably long wait, but we are fixing this.

That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video. Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments. The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times. Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it. Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone. The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.

Congratulations @SpaceX team on an epic first Starship V3 launch & landing! You scored a goal for humanity.

@Mookafish No burn-throughs. Shield held.

We need heat shields to protect us, since we use the air to slow us down as we return to Earth. From orbital speed, it gets to 1650°C / 3000°F. From the Moon: 2750°C / 5000°F. For yesterday's Starship suborbital test flight, peak was 1450°C / 2600°F. Great to see the @SpaceX progress over the last 3 flights. Making them truly reusable is complex and necessary for permanent, cheap space access. image compilation: @niccruzpatane