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The Future is Being Built in the City of San Francisco SF Deep Tech Week is officially live - June 23-29th 8VC, Lowercarbon Capital, Fifty Years, Giant Step Capital, Quantonation, Draper University, and Rayyan I. Patwari with 8090 Industries. Here's the main event lineup 🧵 Event submission and

Just a few of my learnings: - I was wrong that containerized air cargo today is ~1 day delivery. It is more like 4-8 days. This has implications for optimal cargo airship design. - You can get a space telescope for a pittance compared to what NASA spends. If you're a wealthy

I’m speaking on a panel this Thursday (3pm PT) about Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI). SAI is a potential approach to reducing global warming, and AI climate modeling has an important role to play in understanding its impact. I look forward to discussing the atmospheric

We should have so much more energy

Cool. Literally

Welcoming a New Interstellar Object: A11pI3Z medium.com/p/welcoming-a-…

"The Origins of Efficiency" is out today! amazon.com/Origins-Effici…

Q: What do standardized, low-cost space telescopes, ultra-high-performance bio-inspired materials, and fusion energy that costs under 1¢/kWh all have in common? A: They’re all being pursued by our new residents at Astera!

Appreciate this, Ian. Those long walks and deep conversations pushed my thinking more than you know. About fusion, technology, and how real progress happens. Grateful for your guidance and friendship.

I agree with Bill Gates’s new note, Three Tough Truths about Climate, and hope it marks an inflection point. Climate doomerism pushes society into a depressing zero-sum dead end, with second-order effects that likely include revolution, conflict, and authoritarianism. Human

Thank you, Mr. President President Donald J. Trump, for this opportunity. It will be an honor to serve my country under your leadership. I am also very grateful to Secretary Sean Duffy, who skillfully oversees NASA alongside his many other responsibilities. The support from the space-loving community has

Immense planning and technical precision was required for this absolutely preposterous (but real) view: I captured my friend Gabriel C. Brown transiting the sun during a skydive. This might be the first photo of it's kind in existence. See a video of this moment in the reply 👇

Incredibly important and exciting