Sukhpreet Kaur

ELON MUSK: SpaceX will build a mass driver on the moon. "If you want to go beyond a mere terawatt per year, you have to go to the moon. So by having factories on the moon, building AI satellites and having a mass driver, which is the kind of thing you really need to learn about in read about in science fiction, but we're going to make it real. We're actually going to have a mass driver on the moon. And if you do that, you can go several orders of magnitude greater. You can go to 1000 gigawatts or more per year, and ultimately get to maybe a millionth, and then a 1,000th and maybe even a few percent of the sun's energy. I really want to see the mass driver on the moon that is shooting AI satellites into deep space just go like just one after the other. I can't imagine anything more epic than a mass driver on the moon and a self sustaining city on the moon, and then going beyond the moon to Mars, going throughout our solar system, and ultimately, being out there among the stars and visiting all these star systems, maybe we'll meet aliens. Maybe we'll meet see some civilizations that lasted for millions of years, and we'll find the remnants of ancient alien civilizations. But the only way we're going to do that, do that, do that is if we go out there and we explore, and this is the path to making it happen."

But perhaps I’m being hard on myself. There was a battery of high quality lawyers - including some among the best- who had already addressed the court on all issues arising in the case. Then again while the proceedings should have been non-adversarial, it became needlessly rancorous. Particularly unfortunate was the assertion of those representing the government, in a reference to those championing the cause of stray dogs that non-vegetarians were posing as animal lovers! Firstly on a parity of reasoning should those who smoke cigarettes or chew tobacco desist from holding briefs on any lis pertaining to public health? Secondly a govt committed to Hindutva principles cannot be unaware that the Pandavas ate meat and during their 12-year Vanvas hunted and ate deer. Yet as the final book of the Mahabharat records Yudhishthira, the only Pandava to reach heaven alive, was accompanied on his long journey to heaven by a stray dog. It is said that while Bhagwan Indra welcomed him to heaven, refused to let the stray enter. The eldest Pandava thereupon decided to abjure heaven without his loyal stray upon which Indra praised him for his loyalty and righteousness and welcomed both to heaven. The stray dog himself transformed to the Lord of Dharma and also praised Yudhishthir. In short, stray dogs signify Dharma and cruelty to them is Adharma.