At 1:30 a.m. PT on November 3, 2023 Elon sent a message to the xAI group chat saying that we need to go “extremely hardcore” for the next 36 hours; Grok will be released publicly tomorrow. You didn’t have to be in the exclusive company chat to get the message; it was also posted

part of me is disappointed and really wanted to see humans deflect an asteroid with a 2 year notice

Everyone understands that closing German nuclear power plants was the most irresponsible economic and geopolitical security decision. Now look what closing nuclear but keeping coal did to the climate Can you name something more absurd and damaging than Germany’s energy approach?

Europe's answer to increasing competition and verticalization of the space industry is apparently something between cartelization and Soviet-style centrally planned economy. First IRIS² and now SATCOMBw-4, the so-called "German Starlink".

Impressive. Didn't see this coming, especially on a drone-mounted payload (maybe in the ballpark of ~100 W). It's honestly counter-intuitive to me that the transit time of a collimated low-power laser spot is enough to melt coating --> char it (↑α) --> melt glass core. Also,

if you truly want to understand the world we live in, go read his masterpiece

Scott Manley Same exact debate they had about Dragon in 2014. Robert Rose (Flight SW Dir.) pushed for full autonomy, astronauts wanted joysticks, eventually settled for touchscreen manual controls.

Assuming Starship v3, that means you’d already end up w/ < 1000 $/kg launch prices to LEO (full payload capacity). So, imagine by 2030 how low the internal launch cost can get for SpaceX, on a v4 @ 200 ton, after a few tens of reuses.

Jensen announcing a rad-tolerant & high-temp space chip at this year’s GTCs wasn’t on my bingo card tbh. What a time to be alive

We strive to always test as we intend to fly. This enables us to derisk components and subsystems before launch. To that end, here is a DeepSpace-2 test article in a vacuum chamber getting prepared for a hotfire thruster test under the control of our full avionics suite.

“It is crazy we have to say this out loud, but we cannot have a GDPR-like solution for modern company building and investing.” ‘Another GDPR’ should scare the shit out of anyone who cares about European startups. linkedin.com/posts/eu-inc_h…

Time to monitor the situation harder Ursula von der Leyen

the future better looks like the future

To build a sustained human presence on the Moon, we are building NASA Moon Base, prioritizing surface operations and scalable infrastructure.  - Frequent robotic landings and mobility testing including MoonFall drones  - Starting in 2027 nearly monthly cadence of equipment and

kind reminder that this matters for every single human who cares about abundance on this planet