Morgan Beller

People die every day, but they won’t mint more Bob Weirs. He was the last of the best, the headlight on the northbound train, the rebellious teen who became the rambling man who became the keeper of the Grateful Dead flame. Weir helped birth the new world, watched its ruination, and spent the autumn of his life rebuilding it. Six full decades ensuring that the music never stopped. He withstood time with grit, soul, and a Boddhisattva’s Zen. And now, he's gone. Bob, eternally sacred in the no-bullshit Stetson, straight out of a black and white Western, a dead-ringer for the last honorable sheriff in a depraved and sinister county – the last rampart protecting our society from pagan free fall. A cowboy prophet descending from Mt. Tamalpais declaiming outlaw epics about bloody shootouts in El Paso corrals, estimated prophets on burning shores, and lightning trains. Projecting the Sinai authority of the Old Testament God, he helped birth a mythic scripture replete with winners and losers, wronged heroes and sinister villains, those haunted by death, but who remain determined to cheat the grave. Goodbye Ace, may there be infinite Saturday nights in whatever dimension you've ascended to, one more big old party where rock and roll music meets the rising planet sun.

100 GW of Compute Above Earth: The Hardware Leap Hidden in Elon’s Claim 🔥🧠⚙️ Elon says SpaceX could launch ~100 GW of energy, in the form of high-orbit compute, in ~five years. That implies very specific performance requirements for chips, radiators, and solar arrays if launch cadence is going to stay reasonable. In space, compute is constrained by a triangular bottleneck: 1️⃣ Power generation (solar) 2️⃣ Heat rejection (radiators) 3️⃣ Compute density (processing power per kg) All three must rise together. If one lags, the other two stop contributing, and the launch count to hit 100 GW explodes. Today’s generally assumed baseline: ☀️ Solar ~0.8 kW/kg (rigid LEO-class PV) 🌡 Radiators ~1 kW/kg 🧠 Compute ~0.1 kW/kg (typical GPU rack) At these levels, you’d need ≈ 3000 Starship launches to deploy 100 GW of space compute! Compute is the dominant lever: every doubling of compute W/kg roughly halves required launches. Musk’s AI5 → AI8 roadmap points to ~50-100 % annual gains, far faster than the ~25 % GPU trend. Tesla’s AI ASICs are built for efficiency and power density, rather than flexibility; the exact silicon needed for mass-constrained data centers. Crucially, those gains demand new satellite architectures. To sustain cadence, future SpaceX platforms would need to move beyond Starlink-style LEO buses toward larger, optimised HEO compute vehicles with thin-film arrays > 1.5 kW/kg and light, high-temperature radiators > 2 kW/kg: performance levels cited only in advanced NASA STMD and ISNPS studies. Given the 100 GW / ~5 yr claim, Elon is effectively telling us he believes compute, solar, and thermal systems will all hit near-frontier performance, and that Tesla’s chips will deliver the compute-per-kilogram leap needed to make it physically and economically possible. It’s ambitious but plausible: if those PV and radiator systems reach projected “advanced” specs, SpaceX could feasibly deploy ~100 GW of orbital compute per year with ~300 Starship launches. 100 GW matters: it’s roughly the entire terrestrial data-center load expected by 2030. If SpaceX hits that number in orbit, the next AI scaling curve won’t be built on Earth. Link below for the full breakdown 🧐

Wait for it... The difference a year makes at our SLC-14 launch site. 😍