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Accidentally deleted post while trying to share...but it got a like from @dansgoldin NASAs longest tenured administrator....no follow though.

@mil0theminer @grok what is the us dollar amount of tokens spent in the reference post/photos

Perplexity’s only paid customer

@DrChrisCombs Sure is pretty

MORE NASA COLORS FOR DOLLARS SPEND MY TAX DOLLARS YESSSSS

@lrocket @SpaceAbhi A lot of people that have never developed/built anything confuse unavoidable parts of the process as a sign of weakness and failure. The opposite is true you can be a bum in the bleachers eating popcorn or a warrior in the ring catching some lumps even while winning.

@SpaceAbhi SpaceX "almost died 3 times"? I guess I missed the other two

Pretty much only podcaster I listen to. His recaps of the biography and autobiography books of notable business people are insightful.

@FutureJurvetson @MikeHotDogMayor Forgot to mention you'd need 100 coastal commission permits.....

@FutureJurvetson @MikeHotDogMayor Easy. In hermosa beach there's mickeys deli, one of their big sellers is a roll with just marinera and cheese on it, literally just need a hot pot, 2 sec to make a sandwich. $6. Set it up Tues morning with $100 of supplies if you want to "fly" under the radar....

The Taco Bell in Pacifica, CA

@DJSnM @DrPhiltill When you have a huge diversity of macro biology influenced by genes, environmental, chemistry etc influences sometimes the combination of conditions lead to intersecting parabolas that equate to excèding the "mean" i.e. edge cases, miracles or tragedies.

@DrPhiltill I remember watching a presentation from a cardiologist who studied astronauts and he highlighted one astronaut who gained cardiac function in space because they were consistently exercising at levels they weren't managing on Earth.

TIL not all astronauts lose bone mass in space. There is wide scatter. Some astronauts actually gained bone mass in space.

@yacineMTB @i2cjak Totally understand the feeling. Go touch some grass and soak some sun. Source: Instagram share.google/iohux6xiLPRDxb…

@i2cjak seretonin going down

I think it's genuinely over for all of us

@cryptopunk7213 @grok what is the details of $80 mill acquisition from 18 year old mentioned in post

busy fucking day in AI - heres everything that happened: - Qwen dropped 4 ai models that can fit on your phone/laptop + as intelligent as OpenAI OSS-140B (but 13X CHEAPER) - an 18yr old kid sold his AI calorie-tracking app for ~$80M to myfitnesspal - a dude turned his macbook m4 chip into a transformer capable of training, and fine tuning ai models (open source!) - hyundai dropped $6.3B on new ai data center to train self-driving cars and robot humanoids. - anthropic launched voice mode for claude code (tony stark jarvis is almost here!) - stock markets positive on the day signalling confidence in AI-enabled warfare - “claude good for war” - sam & pentagon banned intelligence agencies from using uncensored GPT - U.S. Treasury banned anthropic's claude following pentagon blacklist. - dean ball and ben thompson (stratechery) both dropped amazing takes on the anthropic pentagon affair (go read them)

@TaylorCSargent Yeah quad facial solar-powered

People are going to knock Lockheed for pointing their solar panels away from the sun (toward the cosmic microwave background radiation). What they don’t realize is the sun’s total energy output is ~10^26J, whereas the CMB’s is ~10^65J. So actually…it’s brilliant.

@AdamDraper It's ok. still developing

Did not know there was a “message requests” category in my messages on X. Sorry for not replying ever.

@TaylorCSargent Yup. Perfect example is the inflatable space hab. Vectran and kevlar had pretty big nasa research years and years ago to be picked up by various companies like Bigelow and Sierra space. Nearly 30 years of research for not much progress.

My overwhelming conclusion after ~10 years of investing in advanced technology (mostly things involving hardware) across DARPA, corporate venture, and traditional venture…

@Robotbeat Zubrin has some wild architecture in the repository..

Because of Casey’s Law: I’m going to have to 1) fly PLA parts in space (this is kinda dumb, but very easy and will be useful). And 2) Build this monstrosity:

@ericspinder @SpaceflightNow This is the right answer.

@SpaceflightNow Perhaps a crude way of testing the launch qualities of different adhesives under intense wind pressure. As they will recover the farings, I'd agree that it's a great synergy that surprisingly seems to be lacking otherwise. Most of what worked on Falcon is changing with Starship.

Something unusual on the Starlink 17-20 mission payload fairing was visible in launch pad video prior to today's launch. The black hexagons look very much like Starship thermal protection tiles.

@hthieblot Can't vibe code actual innovative physical structural engineering, if it can past the hand calcs but phd's head scratch the fea setups, you're onto something...the vibes cannot pass what they dont know....

Me replying to engineers flexing what they built

@lrocket @JeffBezos see above

If you want to fund (return on your fund!) and stop throwing darts with a blindfold on... Grew up building/modifying Estes rockets a few houses up from @lrocket house in the 90's. We launched them from what is now Lawndale high school and would pretty routinely have to track em down at the "old" TRW campus mostly near the high bays, where he may have been working at the time. (Also great cul de sac to run 1/8th 1/4mile drag runs off the main street there) Northrop grumman later bought them out (which my mother worked for until retirement and a lot of execs/engineers just below Kathy Warden (nor grumm) that ended up being clients of mine, vp/heads/ran the b-2, yf-23, f-18, f-35 and James webb programs among other nasa, jpl, raytheon. In that time there was a tremendous amount of insight and knowledge passed to me(of course redacted to a degree) while building actual products for the above clients.... We have fully developed a 350m³ space module/lab/manufacturing in a single launch falcon 9, 2500m³ starship, 1950m³ New Glenn on our own dime, in our warehouse for the past 10 years prior to k2 space moving in 1 block from us. These are not balloons like other decades long non fruitful "case studies" or another sub 80m³ pressure vessel. We have an unbeatable combination of maximum up mass/equipment and usable volume per launch of any other space volume to rocket fairing capacity now and in the very distant future. NO ONE can beat our architecture/engineering. We will make space profitable/beneficial to humanity. @_Faraz @abemurray @AdamDraper @BraytonKey @CJHandmer @dansgoldin @DJSnM @DStrachman @elonmusk @GrantObi @jamiegull @rookisaacman @FutureJurvetson @Erdayastronaut @DJSnM @HarryStebbings @peraspera__us

@yacineMTB can you give insite on why editing a saved draft post on x is torture, like 50 sec latency on any text input action, edit: one word in sentance 1 in paragraph 1, edit shows in: sentence 9 paragraph 4 after 2 minutes of screen lock-up on a current gen phone.....know you're not there anymore but maybe you have some non Nda insight....maybe.. @elonmusk

@yacineMTB It's a rabbit hole, get a couple coffee makers ready.....

how do i get started with FPGAs? e.g. something that decodes analog signals and other things. idk. i just want to hack on em

@AdamDraper How about early stage writing 3.5mm checks......

What later stage investors are writing checks into Space Startups?

@hthieblot Out of your niche but 350m³ space station/labs from single falcon 9 launch in existing fairing. All hard sided, not an inflatable. 2500m³ hab/lab single starship launch.

The longer I'm on X, the more I realize: Founders with small accounts are the most interesting ones. - too busy building to posture - keep posting with 0 likes - the world isn’t rooting for them yet, but I will don't hesitate to tell me what you are building!