Shine On You Crazy Diamond

Starship completed its first full flight-like wet dress rehearsal at Starbase today. This was the first time an integrated Ship and Booster were fully loaded with more than 10 million pounds of propellant

Arthur B. Elon Musk Genevieve Roch-Decter, CFA ?

The year is 1440 and the Catholic Church has called for a 6 months moratorium on the use of the printing press and the movable type. Imagine what could happen if commoners get access to books! They could read the Bible for themselves and society would be destroyed.

Society *was* destroyed... ...for the better. Printed books enabled the Protestant movement, and 200 years of religious conflicts in Europe. But printed books also enabled the Enlightenment: literacy, education, science, philosophy, secularism, and democracy.

The Ottoman empire banned printed books until the 18th century, which greatly contributed to their decline from the pinnacle of science and mathematics in the Middle Ages to an intellectual backwater after the Renaissance.