me: i'd like to buy some 3x10²⁶ watts of power production to run my interstellar civilization dyson: ok me: cool. i'd also like to buy a vacuum cleaner lol do you know where i could find a good one dyson: you're not gonna believe this

california speed rail is the millennial la sagrada famillia

Jared Isaacman Hopefully less hazardous! I was sent dog shit, fake anthrax & a lot of hate mail, but survived (though my kids remember closing the drapes at home over sniper concerns). Being threatened by powerful people doesn't feel great, but making a positive difference for humanity does.

in the office, straight up vibe coding "it". and by it, well haha, let's justr say, my maneuvering characteristics augmentation system

I think this is quite good. Discusses the need to hire more skilled engineers — this is a problem industry wide! There just aren’t enough cracked people entering any form of engineering relevant to space exploration.

'The Economist' journalist declined to quote my response.

the pilot: "it's fine i'm not concerned about icing conditions the forecast isn't that bad" the forecast:

I get asked all the time why we buy US-made (or Japanese) equipment vs. cheaper chinese machines. "Dude, you could buy 5 of the chinese machines for the price of one of of the US ones!" True, but it wouldn't necessarily mean more uptime, efficiency or profit. I buy US-made

feeling bored rn, so here's one of my early works from when i was still drawing ksp...

*checks location*

compute

Happy 15th birthday to Dragon, the workhorse of human spaceflight. She's a good ship. To everyone that was there that day, hope you have a drink (or share a wheel of cheese) to celebrate.

grok is this real? is anything real?

Yesterday at church the Bible readings started on page 66-67 of the missal, and my 5-year-old went absolutely nuts repeating "six seven" like 10 times. And now I think we need to make this narrow exception to the first amendment and ban these numbers forever.

no one is thinking about how radiating heat into space isn’t a renewable solution if the universe possesses positive curvature

I was cooking pasta on the stove when my five year old came up and said: "Mommy says white is the hottest color." "That's true, we can look at the peak blackbody color on the gamut." (We have some books on this.) 5yo "But the flames are blue." Me "Yes. That's spectral emission

this is probably the single greatest quote to have been published in the space datacenter debate