Ryan Kellogg

@Matt_Lowne Let me pay per view at like ~1¢ then and kill these ads.

YouTubers, in general, earn ~$1 (USD) per 1,000 views. I imagine the rate for Mr Beast is higher than this though. Assuming the $1:1k ratio applies to him then the ad revenue alone from the videos contained in this screenshot is $330,000. This doesn't take into account sponsors, who I can say pay significantly more than what adsense pays. I have seen contracts of $50k in exchange for one million views. Mr Beast, clearly, can guarantee at least 50x this view count (which would still be multi-million-fewer views than the worst-performing video on this screenshot). I have no idea what level of reality one can exist on to think 50-100 million view videos are representative of a dying channel lol. I've also never seen a single Mr Beast video so not quite sure why I even felt the need to type all this out

@DrChrisCombs Bit flip.

This Mike Fincke story is wild On the ISS prepping for a spacewalk and eating dinner--then out of nowhere he just can't speak No pain, just couldn't speak, for 20 minutes Then he was fine again and has had no other symptoms. Tests haven't shown anything. Weird....

@Mericamemed youtu.be/ziGD7vQOwl8?si… And Goliath was plausibly blind.

Oh so David had a gun

@lrocket @jackywacky_3 Suspect waterjetting or laser cutting and then bump forming or rolling. The welds may be a terminating edge or repairs at the corners. It’s possible that they are doing it with helically rolled and notched bars, but I’d expect more local warping on the small pieces.

@jackywacky_3 How is that actually produced?

Soyuz 5 hot staging ring is absolutely stunning

@Xaraphim You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” - Ray Bradbury

books literally tell you how to do things

@astromatthewt You should see some of the production desks at Starbase.

this has got to be the most insane place to be doing work on a laptop

When you roll out of the Brownsville Whataburger at 7:15 in the morning with your taquitos...

@TylerBell314 Even the giants, whose shoulders we stand on, stand on the shoulders of the giants who came before them. Don’t let one’s doubt of their current height starve those who could one day be hoisted onto their shoulders.

I started at SpaceX just after flight 2. I remember telling my boss “I feel like I’ve missed everything”. I missed star hopper, flight 1, the belly flops, and most of the tent builds. I’ve come to realize that we’re still just at the beginning. Still.

@ApoStructura Dragon 1 icons seem to be missing pre-2020.

Every SpaceX Launch Ever, Flight 11 update! In the less than 2 months between Flight 10 and Flight 11 SpaceX had time to launch 23 Falcon 9s.

@Jordan_W_Taylor Go calculate the shaft power require for a single raptor ox and fuel turbo pump. Even assuming 100% efficiency, you’ll be astonished.

A liquid rocket boost stage needs to pump fuel and cryogenic oxidiser to the combustion chamber at a rate that beggars belief: The 33 engines on the boost stage of SpaceX's monstrous ‘Superheavy’ booster each chew through about 700 kg of propellant every second. Put all those engines together and the flow rate of liquid fuel & oxygen would be sufficient to empty an Olympic swimming pool in under 2 minutes, if you could find an Olympic swimming pool for cryogenic propellant. Can you think of any conventional lightweight pump that can do this? Me neither. You need something special… The turbopump comprises a typically-axial turbine powered by hot, pressurised gas flow that powers centrifugal compressor pumps that pump the colossal quantities of propellant required and pressurize it to, potentially, hundreds of standard atmospheres. It's a handy, lightweight way to provide pumping power, but it does require that you have a source of hot, high-pressure gas to work with. Now, where would you find that in a rocket engine? Indeed. In order to burn fuel, we must pump it. In order to pump it, we may have to burn some of it. Um…

@emm0sh ASME Y14.41

the final boss battle of GD&T

@peteoxenham Teach hand sketching, start with hand-calc sizing, and hold in-person design reviews to return to the garden.

3d printing did the same thing in manufacturing that vibe coding is doing in software now Lowered the barrier to entry so much causing an endless stream of slop, while being cheered on by similarly naive people, and arguing that they have no reason to learn the fundamentals

Hot take: The tech world is far more split on this than left vs right.

@boazbaraktcs @xai Wasn’t @OpenAI supposed to address this in its original mission objective before it became overtly self-interested and directly accelerated the arms race?

I didn't want to post on Grok safety since I work at a competitor, but it's not about competition. I appreciate the scientists and engineers at @xai but the way safety was handled is completely irresponsible. Thread below.

@SpaceX Toob.

Installing the redesigned fuel transfer tube into the first next generation Super Heavy booster. Roughly the same size as the first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket, the new transfer tube is responsible for channeling cryogenic fuel from Super Heavy's main tank to its 33 Raptor engines and will enable faster, more reliable flip maneuvers and the ability for simultaneous engine startup

@tjelesan youtu.be/wu-7soEIHgY?si…

unplugging the fridge at a houseparty>>>

If Shane Gillis got turned by China or Russia and started saying “America’s actually for dorks” that might actually bring about the fall.

@duncanstives @zanehengsperger Lean & 6sigma: 5% fundamental really good ideas that you can understand in a handful of minutes. 95% cult of people trying to sell you their class/book.

Lean is simultaneously a joke and a powerful force. Trick is to know if your operation justifies it or not. One of my old employers wasted a bunch of money on a lean consultant that moved workstations around to cut walk time a tiny bit while ignoring the fact that the people they were "making more efficient" already spent 50% of their time on their phone cause there wasn't enough work. President bought everyone a copy of "The Machine that Changed the World" about the Toyota production system while having never actually BEEN to Toyota's flagship plant (which was less than 20 miles away and offered public tours at the time). I, much later, would go to work for that same plant and always found it funny how he acted so knowledgeable about this topic and how we were going to duplicate what made them successful, but the reality was of so much greater scale (this company was very small, 120 or so employees total) and so much more doing, and less taking that it reminded me of the passage from Lord of the Rings when Saruman's facility at Orthanc is compared unfavorably to Sarons Fortress at Barad Dur: "...so that what he made was naught, only a little copy, a child's model or a slave's flattery, of that vast fortress, armory prison, furnace of great power, Barad-dûr, The Dark Tower, which suffered no rival, and laughed at flattery, biding its time, secure in its pride and its immeasurable strength." The auto industry is just massively larger, faster moving and relentlessly focused on execution... For all the inefficiency that inevitably comes with large organizations, there is nothing that compares to the pressure to execute with manufacturing at scale (especially auto industry because margins aren't great to begin with and its unbelievably capital intensive). If the line is down at an assembly plant, it *WILL* get running again... Doesn't matter if its third shift and the A team isn't there, doesn't matter if they don't have the right parts in stores... When downtime LITERALLY costs tens of thousands of dollars a minute, more and more senior people will just keep showing up until and authorizing increasingly aggressive efforts to get the line back up until it's running again and there is basically no limit to how far they will go. I once saw a private jet from Japan chartered after less than 2 hours of downtime. Expensive, but still cheaper than being down. Line was back up the next morning 🤷‍♂️

@elonmusk @beffjezos Something, something, “we’re playing the universe kids pop instead of jazz.”

@beffjezos Yeah

There is a selection pressure on the space of simulations that steers us to the most entertaining branches of the multiverse

@zachglabman Wireless space elevator.

manufacturers and engineers with under 300 followers, what do you make?