Stephen Bateson

@DJSnM @SpaceX @EliteDangerous Watched it without sound first. Thought, yeah ok I guess. Then watched with sound. Nearly cried. Space Odyssey indeed.

I realized we were missing an important element with this video @SpaceX @EliteDangerous

@DJSnM Hard to watch.

No audio, but the text transcription from the MD-11 crash synced to the reconstruction using the data recorder.

@niccruzpatane “• The first private company to transport astronauts to orbit, returning America's ability to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station (2020)” And still the only private company to transport them back.

SpaceX is such a bad ass company. In their IPO filing, they wrote this: • The first private company to develop and launch a liquid-fuel rocket to reach orbit (2008) • The first private company to successfully dock a private spacecraft with the International Space Station (2012) • The first to successfully propulsively land (2015) and refly orbital-class rocket boosters (2017) • The first to begin deploying a large-scale LEO broadband satellite constellation (2019); • The first private company to transport astronauts to orbit, returning America's ability to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station (2020) • The first to manufacture consumer-grade phased-array user terminals at scale (2022); The first to deploy a large-scale LEO satellite-to-mobile constellation (2025) • The first to build a gigawatt-scale Al training cluster and largest coherent supercomputer (2026) • The first gigawatt-scale Megapack battery installation (2026); and • The only company capable of building orbital AI compute at scale. BOOM.

@mikekujawski @niccruzpatane Only company where that “BOOM” is even a remote possibility.

@niccruzpatane Please tell me the “BOOM” at the end was included as well.

@mrgalerien @KiltCat Agreed, on both counts. The makers of For All Mankind have stated as much. It’s nice though that there is a nod to For All Mankind in season six of The Expanse.

@SteveBateson @KiltCat There's lore incompatibility but I'm willing to look past it

Watching "For All Mankind" gradually turning into "The Expanse"

Yes, choose. I’m talking specifically about those that choose that path for reasons such as feeling the world is too terrible to have children or would just prefer not to or any one of the myriad reasons given. Which is to say, I’m responding to the OP. Note that, in contrast to the OP the people that I feel sorry for are those that would like to have children but can’t. Those that choose it don’t really deserve sympathy.

@SteveBateson @KatieMiller “Choose” … ?

I feel sad for the people who will miss out on having children because of anti-family propaganda pushed by the left. Humanity will collapse without increasing birth rates.

@unrocket Beratna

Why the asteroid belt beats Mars for human expansion, from first principles: 1/ Accessibility. 100% of the belt's mass is reachable with low delta-v. To match the belt's mass on Mars, you'd have to strip-mine the entire planet to 9+ km depth. Deepest mine on Earth: 3.9 km. 2/ Gravity well. From the belt you can reach anywhere in the solar system cheaply. Mars makes you climb out of a well every time you want to leave. 3/ Atmosphere is a non-feature. Mars's atmosphere is too thin to breathe or shield you—you still need pressurized habitats. Difference between a Mars hab and a belt hab is fractions of a psi. Trivial. 4/ Gravity requirements are unknown. We don't know the minimum g humans need to thrive and reproduce. The belt offers any value from 0 to 1g via rotation. If the answer is >1/3 g, Mars is permanently disqualified. 5/ Mobility. A belt habitat can move to new resources. A Mars base is stuck where you built it. Mars is a romantic destination. The belt is an economic one.

@DriverHawk @RSE_VB Empty air.

@RSE_VB That just makes it worse. WTF was dash 2 looking at???

It appears what saved them was the jet’s fly-by-wire doing its best to keep the aircraft flying and upright. Amazing.

@Aerovances Have we landed yet?

This Airbus A350-1000 looking extra clean. Rate this beautiful landing

@Aerovances Super Jumbo Waltz. Must have been close to a go around.

Unbelievable A380 Hard Crosswind Landing during a storm

@BLackgold_5 Too fast.

United Airlines B767 Landing Goes Wrong at Zurich Airport What went wrong here?

@SirBylHolte I’ll have what she’s having.

The 15 Greatest Movie Catchphrases: 1. Get away from her you bitch! 2. I’m your huckleberry. 3. It puts the lotion on its skin. 4. You talkin’ to me? 5. Here’s looking at you, kid. 6. We’re gonna need a bigger boat. 7. Say hello to my little friend! 8. You can’t handle the truth! 9. Houston, we have a problem. 10. May the Force be with you. 11. Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker! 12. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. 13. Hasta la vista, baby. 14. I see dead people. 15. KHAAAAAN! What did I leave out?

@RacingintheSt @EricIdle God had to get one over Ricky sooner or later.

Hi @EricIdle I saw this list and thought you would be worth a place - I mean how great was Alfred?

@GnosisWolf Let the guy with the boat pass.

Ok, so what did this guy do wrong? Far too impatient obviously, but what else?

@GnosisWolf Bought a boat.

@Combat_learjet There’s a little hole in the front of the wing. Just tape over it, you’ll be fine. Either that, or it’s the cops trying to pull you over.

I wonder what the annoying horn is for? 🤣🤷‍♂️

@Javi @rhizomaticthot @DJSnM That didn’t occur to me until you mentioned it.

@rhizomaticthot @DJSnM This is the plot of 3 body problem lol

the fast16 malware was almost certainly targeting spherical implosion simulations. left: unmodified LS-DYNA 970 right: LS-DYNA 970 modified with the relevant portions of fast16.sys both running a spherical implosion deck

@BLackgold_5 Appropriate

Describe one word C-5