In order to be born, you needed:
2 parents
4 grandparents
8 great-grandparents
16 second great-grandparents
32 third great-grandparents
64 fourth great-grandparents
128 fifth great-grandparents
256 sixth great-grandparents
512 seventh great-grandparents
1,024 eighth great grandparents
2,048 ninth great-grandparents
For you to be born today from 12 previous generations, you needed a total of 4,094 ancestors over the last 400 years.
Think for a moment:
How many struggles?
How many battles?
How many difficulties?
How much sadness?
How much happiness?
How many love stories?
How many expressions of hope for the future? – did your ancestors have to undergo for you to exist in this present moment...
Elon Musk just announced cellular dead zones have two years left to exist, but only if both space and Earth execute flawlessly in parallel.
Direct satellite-to-phone isn’t theoretical anymore. SpaceX is manufacturing it at scale. Your phone just can’t talk to it yet.
Musk: “There are hardware changes that need to happen.”
Streaming-quality bandwidth from orbit requires different chipsets. Current phones lack the radio hardware for frequencies SpaceX satellites broadcast on. Not fixable through updates. Physical redesign required.
Two simultaneous engineering fronts. Both must succeed.
In orbit, SpaceX is deploying a constellation capable of video-streaming bandwidth direct to pocket devices.
On the ground, manufacturers are integrating entirely new chipsets into phones to receive those transmissions.
Musk: “You should be able to watch videos anywhere on your phone.”
Not emergency texts from mountains. That’s the minimum viable product rolling now. The actual goal is unrestricted bandwidth from any coordinates on the planet.
Video streaming mid-Pacific. Data access from Antarctica. Video calls crossing the Sahara. Full connectivity completely independent of towers, cables, terrestrial infrastructure.
Musk: “We’re building the satellites and working with the handset makers.”
Satellites launch on schedule. Chipsets integrate into device generations over 24 months. When both complete, the handshake executes globally.
Dead zones don’t reduce. They terminate as a concept. Not through better ground coverage. Through space-based infrastructure making physical location irrelevant to connection quality.
Timeline is locked. Two years until compatible hardware ships mainstream. Constellation already deploying overhead to provide the other half.
This stopped being research. It’s production engineering synchronized across orbital deployment and consumer electronics at planetary scale. When it completes, connectivity dependence shifts entirely from geography to hardware generation.
“No signal” disappears as a location problem. It only exists if your device predates the cutover. Two years from now, new phones ship assuming orbital connectivity as baseline infrastructure.
The phone in your pocket will be the last generation that loses service based on where you’re standing.
I still have my Not a Flamethrower from Elon's Boring Company.
New in the box - only used once to test it out.
What's it worth, and what should I do with it?
@DudespostingWs I’m over here thinking, how the hell did he fly in NYC? The risk in fines for this video is insane, unless the pilot got approved for the flight… but still, that’s insanely difficult to do.
@scubaryan_ Something’s wrong with these people. Multi millionaires, but still trying to get free shit. You could probably buy the whole store and won’t even feel it.
I’m not a millionaire, but if my friends own their own brand and stores, you bet your ass I’m spending money to support them
@niccruzpatane@elonmusk can we have a setting where we tell FSD: I wanna park backing in, or I wanna park heading in ?? I feel like it’s so random and sometimes I need to load the trunk etc.
George Hood: the Marine veteran that broke the world record for longest plank at the age of 62
Hood held a plank for eight hours, 15 minutes and 15 seconds in Chicago, Illinois.
Left side is a human lung. Right side is a tree.
The tree breathes in what the lung breathes out. The lung breathes in what the tree breathes out.
God's design is incredible.
@stats_feed Intermittent fasting. 18:6.
Eat during 6 hour window, no snacking. For example 12pm until 6pm, high protein, at a calorie deficit.
You'll shift so much excess fat it will become addictive.