I admit I did not expect this to work.

I do think Gwynne Shotwell and all the other amazing folks at SpaceX who made today’s events possible deserve recognition for being total badasses.

This. Joe is spot on. What a time to be alive . . . the freely available resources online to learn and explore in your free time are amazing. In some of my downtime every week on Earth I keep learning in areas like CAD, programming, imagery, and circuits.

I don’t want to hear any more of that “we don’t build cathedrals anymore” crap. We build them alright, and they *fly*

I noticed a very cool detail in this horizontal video of the SpaceX Starship Booster return — look at the sonic boom pressure waves rippling through the clouds at the speed of sound, about 12 seconds in 💥💨

2¹³⁶²⁷⁹⁸⁴¹−1, discovered today, is the largest known prime. It's a Mersenne prime (2ᵖ-1), which are easier to find. It took nearly 6 years for the GIMPS software to find it after the previous largest known prime. It was also the first Mersenne prime found using GPUs.

It would be a real shame if this tweet by Elon Musk (in 2022) saying that Trump is too old to be president went viral. You know what to do.

"Passers-by" After hours of planning and a good stroke of cosmic luck, I present the International Space Station ⁠#ISS making a flyby of #Jupiter! You can even see the Galilean moons. Lost for words with how this turned out - I hope you like it just as much as I do! 1/4

My entire Twitter feed is Elon Musk commenting "This is crazy" and quote tweeting something that a fourth-grader should be able to tell is made up.

This seems like a reasonable summary of why voting for Harris is a positive choice and a good idea.

Hey it's me Destin, from Smarter Every Day. Now that it's time to elect America's next leader, I would like to share something very interesting and important with you. I've been paying attention to this for a while, and I think if you look for it, you see it too. 🧵 1/n

The EU has three times as many people as Russia. Germany’s economy alone is 50% larger than Russia’s. We don’t need the US for protection. But we do need to get to work.

If you feel like you won today, it’s more important than ever to be kind to those who feel they lost. Show them that their fears of you were misplaced.

I watched the video 2x and took notes, and I really don’t think Sabine agreed with Neil, nor do I think she disagreed with Elon except over the matter of timing. 🧵/1

Totally agree. I’m an O’Neillian but I think SpaceX trying to settle Mars will do more to accelerate the O’Neillian vision than any other approach, because it will create customers for cislunar industry. And cislunar industry will greatly benefit efforts to settle Mars. 1/2

It’s been 6 weeks since Donald Trump returned to the White House. It’s almost been too much to keep up with the sheer number of bad decisions he’s made that will make life worse for Americans. I know it's hard to keep track, but we can't let any of this go unnoticed. 🧵

While there are still capabilities to be proven, Flight 9 should be seen as a cautiously optimistic win for the Starship program: - 8th straight reliable ascent burn for Super Heavy, the largest and most powerful rocket booster ever - Super Heavy booster reuse proven with 33/33

Danny Jones If you wanted to know ANY of the answers to the "questions" Sibrel asks, I have an entire video going into every single thing, but especially about the delta V requirements of the mission. To bombard a 90 year old retired Apollo Astronaut with almost 4 hours of unprepared