
Andy Packard
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Andy Packard
@andypack
Oregonian-Coloradan, sailer, SaaS product manager, dot-commie. Father, step-father, host-father, husband, cook.


Elon Musk: I don't want to escape to Mars, but to increase the lifespan of civilization and life itself. “Technically, being a multiplanet species would increase the probable lifespan of civilization and life as we know it. Humans don't live forever, but just because we don't live forever does not mean that civilization cannot live much longer than we do. A civilization lives much longer than any individual human. This is not about escaping to Mars. I will die probably long before Mars is a self-sustaining civilization. It's just, I think, something we should do in order to have a much longer probable lifespan of civilization.” Interview with @TheBabylonBee, 2021






Trump pressures congressional Republicans to help in his fight to overturn the election washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…


A reminder that if If the US just had the same deaths per million as Canada, a country whose Covid repsonse has been decent but not amazing, ONE HUNDRED SIXTY THOUSAND MORE AMERICANS would still be alive.

The @SpaceX #CrewDragon astronauts, @Astro_illini, @AstroVicGlover, @Astro_Soichi and Shannon Walker are hard at work and getting used to life on the station. More... flic.kr/s/aHsmQ5hyVf







