i’m looking for an old novel i’ve read where the characters are forced to hunker down in a canyon or ravine during a powerful rainstorm on a partially terraformed mars. Something about the induced microclime causes ancient martian life to burst out of the dust, then to collapse.

LGTM (let’s go to mars)

No other task will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish. Do I think we will succeed? Yes, but it’s far from guaranteed. Maybe you’ll make the difference. Hiring in every role; DMs open.

facebook marketplace has so far decided to show me only persian carpets and vintage oscilloscopes

I started at SpaceX between starship flight 1 and 2, right after finishing university. We’re incredibly, incredibly early. There’s a lot to do.

Falcon 9 launches every other day. Starship is 10 times the size, will launch every hour. All this drama is beside the point. Starship is reaching maturity. Humanity is not going to send a tiny little Apollo lander. We’re gonna land on the Moon & Mars like D-Day. Edit by Kuat.

an engineer ate one candy corn. this is what happened to every cell in her body

it’ll happen slowly at first. But that trickle will become a stream, then a river, and then a flood that will fill the valleys of mars with water… and life. Ten thousand starships will light the night sky as they start their journey to a new world.

1.068 PB for a meaningful fraction (maybe the majority?) of all text written by humans

super exciting to see more lithography plays in the US. lots more room in that industry for more companies and more kinds of processes!

Excited to share the preprint of our new State of Brain Emulation Report 2025! We reassess progress since the 2008 brain emulation roadmap by Anders Sandberg & Bostrom across organisms from C. elegans to humans, identify current bottlenecks and propose a path forward. 1/N

I think the thing that neither side of the transhumanist debates understand is that what we were given and what we are creating are equally important for understanding our place in the cosmos

time to cook

i’m so glad to be working with people who are much better engineers than me. i have so much to learn.

if you're interested in molecular nanotechnology, go build atomically precise manufacturing with some friends of mine. really hard problem but would utterly transform the material basis of our civilization. i think it's just now becoming achievable machinephase.systems

brian and i last night