Tim Wannier

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Chinese fishing vessel in Antarctic scooping up krill, right next to whales and penguins These ships track where the animals go to feed & take their food. The ship is Shi Dao, the same fishing vessel that was caught dumping oil into Fijian waters at a shipyard a few years ago.

The secret plan is out! Two great articles today about our plan to capture a small asteroid and bring it into Earth orbit. The concept is part of our New Moon mission, which explores relocating a small near-Earth asteroid into a controlled orbit as the first step toward building industrial infrastructure in space. Our team has been developing the key technologies for this approach for years, including capture mechanisms to constrain and move small asteroids and orbital debris. Accessing materials already in space could eventually enable a new generation of industries beyond Earth. If you're interested in the future of space resources, these articles are worth a read. hashtag#space hashtag#asteroidmining hashtag#spacetechnology hashtag#spacex hashtag#venture

Rocket garden at Starbase. You can see this from the public highway.

Tucker Carlson stops by the desk to talk Oscar nominations

Factory farming is a blight. The practices of industrialized animal farming are aesthetically and morally revolting. These practices can be phased out. Read the new article by @Liv_Boeree (link below):

This is a sin

Was not able to find a single supporter of the "Save Our Bacon Act" here. Most unpopular position I've ever seen on Twitter. x.com/i/trending/203…

I don’t think a lot of people understand how bad it has gotten in elementary school Parents are fighting to keep their kids away from screens and junk videos only to have their public schools give away the game

Read this. And remember: it’s mostly CHINESE interests that are pushing for this madness. One of the biggest factory-farm lobbyists in the US is Smithfield foods, who are now China owned. It’s nuts their money has been allowed to dictate the US farm bill.

"The new roles are an investment in the brand’s hardware innovation, advanced research, product development and global brand growth. The majority of new roles will be based at the company’s Boston headquarters, with additional hiring across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia." athletechnews.com/whoop-plans-hi…

NASA does not have a top-line problem. We receive roughly $25 billion in annual appropriations, including more than a $10 billion plus-up from President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill. If that is not enough to run a lunar exploration program and do all the other things across science and discovery, then what is the right number? We don’t need to blame budgets or continuity of decision-making as the common excuse, as if a billion dollars is somehow not a billion dollars and troubled programs should perpetually stay troubled programs. NASA, like the federal government, cannot spend our way out of every problem, nor can we perpetuate bad decisions. That means not getting spread thin across too many imposed endeavors or jumping straight to the “dream state,” which is how everything becomes over budget and behind schedule. Instead, we concentrate on the needle-moving objectives, the reason NASA exists in the first place. We execute with urgency, in an iterative and safe way, and empower the workforce and our partners to get the job done. That is how we changed the world on July 20, 1969, and it is how we will do it again. Expect more from NASA and start believing again.

Starship V3 first flight in about 4 weeks

Massive fleets have repeatedly appeared near biodiversity hotspots like the Galápagos Islands (e.g., 260+ vessels in 2020, logging tens of thousands of hours just outside the protected zone).

If you’d like whales to continue existing, you’ll want to stop this ASAP

Chinese fishing fleets are termites of the sea. Look at their global footprint, they’re everywhere. These state-subsidized armadas even vacuumed up crabs off Alaska. At this scale of extraction, they’re becoming one of the biggest threats to the oceans people depend on.

Whoop has 800 employees today and just announced plans to grow headcount +600 this year. Investing in talent AND ai tools not mutually exclusive. Many of these “AI layoffs” are just companies under performing or lacking a bigger market opportunity.

Chinese vessel Fu Yuan Yu 9199, largest krill trawler in Antarctica right now is pumping up krill 24/7 from one of Earth’s most fragile regions. They even use drones All this to make fish feed for aquaculture & then spin it into a 'China is a sustainability champion' propaganda

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan discredited interventionism in the eyes of the American public. What the last few years have done in contrast is discredit anti-interventionism, or the idea that American power cannot be used for good. First came the Abraham Accords, where contrary to every prediction made by practically every Middle East expert, Israel signed peace treaties with several of its neighbors without taking care of the Palestinian issue first. Throughout the first Trump administration, the maximum pressure campaign had Israel, the Arabs, and the US all on the same side against Iran. The Syrian regime falls, the new leader in Damascus is pro-Western. We ended up fighting both Assad and ISIS, and defeated them both. Then you had the Venezuela operation. Without losing any American soldiers, we removed the Maduro regime, and replaced it with a government that has been freeing political prisoners and opening up the oil industry to American companies. Cuba will probably be overthrown without any cost next, ending the over half-century nightmare there. Now, after taking a detour during the Hamas war and wiping out Hezbollah's leadership, Israel along with the US slaughter the entire upper echelon of the Iranian regime. What's next in Iran? Who knows? But isn't there at least a chance it'll be better than the old theocrats? Why would anyone dismiss the possibility? People deny this is possible just because they want America and the West to fail. Russia and China remain problems and North Korea is an exception. But when it comes to weaker enemies around the world, we can just kill them and everything will be fine. As it turns out, we misunderstood the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan. The lesson wasn't "never do regime change" or "never kill bad people." The lesson we should've taken was "don't do social engineering through war." Killing bad people and removing bad government is fine, both in terms of American interests and from a humanitarian perspective. Now that we've seen how easy it is, we arguably have a moral obligation to keep doing it. There is a lot to be gained by just removing the worst of the worst. Going from Stalin to Khrushchev and Mao to Deng made things much better. Same with going from Maduro to Delcy, and the same is likely to be true with regard to whatever comes next in Iran and Cuba. Don't waste your time on micromanaging the country and having feminist art exhibitions like we did in Afghanistan. Just remove regime you don't like first, and then be pragmatic with the next steps. America is powerful and good. We just need to understand that it is ok to admit it.

Operation Epic Fury. President Trump has been willing to do what’s right and necessary to produce real peace in the region. God bless the United States, our great military, and Israel.