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Want to know what it sounded like during the launch of Flight 12 of Starship today? Check out this video and the shaking of the windows. This was during my livestream with @esherifftv (Ellie in Space) at a ouse about 5 miles from the launch site. Definitely have the volume up! Truly a powerful rocket ... the most powerful ever!

I'd love so much to have this setup 😍

For a long time, the Big Bang was often described as the moment when the entire Universe was compressed into an infinitely small point: zero volume, infinite density, infinite temperature. It is a powerful image, but it is also a misleading one. Modern cosmology does not really say that the observable Universe began as a mathematical point. What it says, with much more confidence, is that the early Universe was once far hotter, denser and more uniform than it is today, and that it has been expanding and cooling for about 13.8 billion years. The difference matters, because “hot and dense” is physics; “infinitely small and infinitely hot” is where our known physics stops being reliable. The original Big Bang picture came from a simple but profound extrapolation. If distant galaxies are moving away from us today, and if space itself is expanding, then going backward in time means the Universe was smaller. Smaller means denser. Denser means hotter. Keep running that movie backward without interruption, and the equations of general relativity seem to lead to a singularity: a state where density and temperature become infinite and the scale of space becomes zero. But a singularity is not necessarily a physical object. Very often, in physics, it is a warning sign. It tells us that the theory we are using has been pushed beyond its valid domain. The observable Universe today has a radius of about 46 billion light-years, not because light has travelled faster than light, but because the fabric of space has expanded while that ancient light was travelling toward us. Around 380,000 years after the Big Bang, the Universe cooled enough for electrons and nuclei to form neutral atoms, allowing light to travel freely. That ancient light is the cosmic microwave background, the oldest electromagnetic signal we can observe directly. It is not a photograph of the Big Bang itself, but it is a fossil image of the young Universe, released when space first became transparent. That ancient light is one of the reasons we can no longer treat the singular Big Bang picture as the whole story. The cosmic microwave background is not perfectly uniform; it carries tiny temperature fluctuations, the seeds from which galaxies and cosmic structure later grew. But those fluctuations are small, coherent and highly specific. They tell us that the early Universe was extraordinarily smooth, but not perfectly smooth. It had just enough irregularity for gravity to begin building the cosmic web, while remaining uniform enough to suggest that something had already stretched and smoothed space before the hot Big Bang phase began. That is where cosmic inflation enters the picture. Inflation is the idea that, before the hot Big Bang phase, the Universe underwent an extremely brief period of accelerated, exponential expansion. This was not an explosion of matter through space. It was space itself stretching dramatically. In fact, distant regions of the Universe can still recede from one another faster than light today because of the expansion of space, so the important point about inflation is not simply that it involved superluminal recession. What makes inflation special is how violently and exponentially that stretching happened in an almost unimaginably tiny fraction of a second. It could have taken a minuscule patch of space and expanded it so enormously that it became the smooth, flat-looking observable Universe we see today. This changes the meaning of “the beginning.” In the modern view, the hot Big Bang is not necessarily the absolute beginning of everything. It is the beginning of the hot, dense, radiation-filled phase that evolved into the Universe we observe. Inflation, if correct, came before that. When inflation ended, its energy was converted into particles and radiation, reheating the Universe and starting the hot Big Bang. So the hot Big Bang was not an explosion of matter into empty space. It was a transition: the moment when an inflationary state gave way to a Universe filled with matter, antimatter, radiation and the ingredients from which atoms, stars and galaxies would eventually form. This is why the claim that “space was infinitely small when the Big Bang began” is probably not right. If we extrapolate the hot Big Bang phase backward, temperature rises as the Universe gets smaller. But observations place limits on how hot the hot Big Bang could have been. The early Universe reached an extreme temperature, but not an arbitrarily infinite one. That matters because if the temperature was finite, then the density was finite too, and the region that became our observable Universe had a finite size. It may have been incomprehensibly small compared with today, but it was not a point of zero volume. That does not mean the entire Universe had to be small in an absolute sense. We must distinguish between the whole Universe and the observable Universe. The observable Universe is the region from which light has had time to reach us since the hot Big Bang. The whole Universe may be much larger than that, perhaps even infinite. If space is infinite today, it may also have been infinite during the earliest hot Big Bang phase, just with every region much denser and hotter than it is now. Infinite space can expand. It does not need an edge. It does not need a center. Expansion means that distances between unbound regions of space increase with time. A useful way to think about this is not “everything came from a point,” but “everything we can currently observe was once compressed into a much smaller volume.” That volume was not infinitesimal. It was finite if we are talking about our observable patch, and its minimum size depends on the maximum temperature reached after inflation. The higher the reheating temperature, the smaller our observable patch could have been at the start of the hot Big Bang. But because observations limit that temperature, they also imply a lower bound on the size of that patch. In other words, the observable Universe was once extremely small compared with today, but not zero-sized. This is subtle because popular language often collapses several different ideas into one phrase: “the Big Bang.” Sometimes it means the entire origin of the Universe. Sometimes it means the hot early phase. Sometimes it means a mathematical singularity. In contemporary cosmology, the safest definition is narrower: the Big Bang describes the early hot, dense, expanding state from which the observable Universe evolved. It is not automatically a claim that time began from a point, or that space emerged from literal nothingness, or that the whole Universe once occupied a single location. The data also keep the story disciplined. Inflation is strongly motivated, but not fully proven in every detail. The pattern of primordial fluctuations supports a Universe that was once extremely smooth, spatially flat to high precision and seeded by tiny quantum variations stretched to cosmic scales. At the same time, many simple inflationary models have been constrained, and primordial gravitational waves have not yet been definitively detected. A future detection of primordial B-mode polarization would be a major clue about inflation’s energy scale, but the absence of such a detection so far already tells us that the earliest observable conditions were not arbitrarily energetic. The deeper question remains open: what came before inflation? There are several possibilities. Inflation might have lasted for an extremely long time before our hot Big Bang region formed. There may have been a previous phase described by quantum gravity. There may have been a bounce instead of a singular beginning. Or the question itself may require concepts we do not yet have, because time, causality and space may behave differently near the earliest accessible boundary of physics. What matters is that current evidence does not force us to say that the Universe began as an infinitely small point. The more scientifically careful picture is also more interesting. The early Universe was not a tiny fireball expanding into darkness. It was space itself, hot, dense, smooth and expanding everywhere. Before that hot phase, inflation may have stretched space enormously, making our observable region large enough, flat enough and uniform enough to become the cosmos we see. When inflation ended, the Universe was reheated, particles emerged, light filled space, and the clock of the hot Big Bang began. So the Big Bang was not necessarily the birth of space from a point. It was the beginning of the Universe as a hot, particle-filled, expanding plasma. Our observable cosmos was once unimaginably compressed, but it was not infinitely so. The singularity may be less a place we came from than a boundary of our current theories. And that distinction is important, because science advances not by forcing the Universe into old images, but by knowing exactly where those images break.

The energy spent watching someone else’s lane is energy that could have built your own. #redo96

Discipline multiplies progress.

A company whose name is literally "AI Slop" spelled backwards raised $30M by itself. We literally live in the silliest timeline.

People are really intimidated by intelligence

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Philly to Japan in 30 minutes. Data centers orbiting Earth. Asteroid mining replacing terrestrial extraction. Most see a rocket company; the elite see the infrastructure of the next century. The SpaceX IPO isn't just a ticker it's a total industry reset.

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THIS GUY TURNED AN OLD SMARTWATCH INTO A DIGITAL SHIFT KNOB FOR HIS 2001 AUDI AND THEN MADE IT EVEN CRAZIER instead of throwing away an old TicWatch, he 3D printed a custom housing and mounted it on his gear stick he vibe coded a custom WearOS app that uses the watch's built in accelerometer and gyroscope to read the physical angle of the shift stick and display which gear you're in the hardest part was driving on hills. going uphill would throw off the angle readings and show random gears. he had to build dynamic calibration into the algorithm so it could adjust in real time his car is a 2001 audi B5. the old communication protocol is so limited for gear data that building his own accelerometer app was actually easier than pulling from the car's computer then he went further he vibe coded an invisible touch spotify controller into the same shift knob swipe up on the knob to skip a track. swipe down to go back. tap to pause. all using the watch's touch screen while your hand is already on the shifter no extra buttons, no phone mount, no looking away from the road. your hand is on the shift knob anyway so the controls are right where you need them the watch also shows whatever is playing via bluetooth between gear changes 3D printed the enclosure, vibe coded the app, and turned e-waste into the coolest car mod on the internet

SpaceX is actively hiring world-class engineers/physicists for SpaceXAI, even if you have zero prior experience in AI. Smart humans figure it out fast. Please send an email with ~3 bullet points demonstrating evidence of exceptional ability to ai_eng@spacex.com.

𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚: Eagles star wide receiver AJ Brown posts a gorgeous recap of his $1 MILLION wedding to Kelsey Riley in Laguna Beach this weekend. One of the nicest weddings you will ever see. True love is something special 🥹❤️

🚨THE FBI CREATED A FAKE CRYPTOCURRENCY.. LISTED IT ON UNISWAP.. HIRED MARKET MAKERS TO PUMP IT.. THEN ARRESTED EVERYONE WHO SAID YES.. THIS IS THE CRAZIEST LAW ENFORCEMENT OPERATION IN CRYPTO HISTORY!!! The FBI built an actual ERC-20 token on Ethereum called NexFundAI.. 100 billion token supply.. A professional website.. Whitepapers promising "passive income through AI-powered investing".. It looked exactly like every other crypto project.. Because that was the point.. Undercover agents posed as the founding team.. Then reached out to professional market-making firms and said "we need you to fake our trading volume".. Every single firm said yes.. Here's what they recorded.. Gotbit.. A firm run by a 26-year-old Russian who publicly bragged in 2019 that he built a business faking trade volumes.. His team kept internal spreadsheets with columns literally labeled "fake volume" vs "market volume".. When asked how fast they could pump NexFundAI's volume to $1 million per day.. They said "6 hours.. It will cost about $200".. $200 to fake $1 million in daily trading volume.. MyTrade.. Run by a guy who called himself "the mastermind".. He explained the exact psychology of the scam on camera.. "We make the chart look like a really nice roller coaster ride.. That's where people jump in.. We have to make them lose money in order to make profit".. He said that on a recorded FBI video call.. CLS Global.. A Dubai-based firm.. Their bots generated 98% of NexFundAI's total trading volume.. When the FBI asked if they could sync fake volume spikes with fake news announcements.. They said absolutely.. ZM Quant.. Bots executing 10 to 20 trades per minute through dozens of wallets to look organic.. All of them knew it was fraud.. All of them did it anyway.. All of it was recorded.. And the clients were even worse.. Saitama.. A meme coin that hit $7.5 billion market cap.. The founders coordinated buys through private Telegram chats.. Sent "pump it" memes while manipulating the price.. Then dumped on retail investors.. $7.5 billion.. Built entirely on fake volume.. Every penny of real money came from retail investors who thought the momentum was organic.. One founder left Saitama and started Robo Inu.. Used Gotbit again.. Another launched VZZN.. Same playbook.. Lillian Finance.. Founder claimed to be a defense contractor who addressed Congress.. Marketed the token as funding children's hospitals.. Pocketed everything.. When the FBI shut it down.. They seized $25 million in one day.. 18 people indicted across the US, UK, and Portugal.. The CEO of Gotbit was arrested in Portugal and extradited.. Sentenced to 8 months plus $23 million forfeiture.. But here's the part that broke my brain.. Real people bought NexFundAI.. The FBI's fake token.. With zero utility.. Zero real developers.. Created solely to catch criminals.. Attracted real retail investors because the fake volume made the chart look bullish.. When the FBI pulled the liquidity to end the operation.. Those people lost real money.. On a government-issued token.. The FBI had to set up a restitution portal to pay them back.. And it gets worse.. Within 24 hours of the DOJ announcing the sting.. Someone cloned the FBI's exact smart contract.. Launched a copycat token.. Rode the viral momentum.. And made $127,000 in a single day.. Using the exact same manipulation tactics the FBI just arrested 18 people for.. Then in 2026.. The FBI did it again.. New token called Lexobit.. 10 more arrests.. Including operators extradited from Singapore.. IRS forensics showed that in one firm's trading.. 1,209 out of 1,221 consecutive transactions went straight back to wallets the firm controlled.. 99% circular.. The FBI proved what everyone in crypto suspected.. The volume is fake.. The charts are painted.. The momentum is manufactured.. And every time you buy a token because "the chart looks bullish".. You might be the exit liquidity.

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