i have a mental illness that makes me think people can change their minds if i present the correct arguments with the appropriate facts and data

Best community note I've read in a while. Ye gods do I despise 9/11 "truthers." They were moronic cranks a quarter century ago, more so today.

Happy sixth anniversary to one of the top 10 best tweets in this history of this platform

Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719). The Spelling of our Tongue was in the main ſettled ere the eighteenth Century, & the Grammar has ſuffer'd but little Alteration ſince. Yet before this happy

I forgot about the "planets are just a few thousand miles apart" shot

"Even a single TIE Bomber would wreck the Enterprise!" Well, apart from being entirely wrong, I have no idea how it would do anything with no crew onboard.

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Yeah, Star Trek NEVER uses transporters offensively... except for that transporter rifle, or the time Voyager beamed a photon torpedo onboard a Borg ship, or in Insurrection where the Son'a are captured on their own holoship, or the Nyrians boarding Voyager, or...

Solar sail trajectory from low earth orbit to Mars. (1) Escape from earth (spiral up from ~800km); (2) Navigate through interplanetary space; and (3) Spiral down / get captured at Mars. Top-down visualization, work by Ari Essunfeld and Yuji Takubo / 田久保勇志, idea by Casey Handmer.

Even worse - each neuron that contributes to your cognition and consciousness might contain 100,000 Microtubules - each Microtubule Operating at 10,000,000 oscillations per second - and being Quantum photonic memristers Good luck with the AGI tho

So 9/11 was a cover up for 9/11? Top of the line thinking. The real red pill is that buildings aren’t designed to survive disasters. They are largely designed to survive just long enough for people to evacuate. This is partly why I’d never move to the West Coast. Commercial

Below is the note that I sent to the NASA workforce today as we release the report on the Starliner Crew Flight Test Investigation. We will achieve success through extreme ownership, immense competence, and decisive action.

Isaacman is such a breath of fresh air at NASA. Far too often we have been served platitudes in news conferences. Space is hard. Teams are doing their best. Proud of everyone. Blah blah. Today we are getting accountability.

Excuse me but what the hell was going on in the design reviews for this one to just slide right by?

a little secret: if your app actually solves a specific problem someone has, users love this sort of UI

Nightmare

My redhottest take is that we don't lose anywhere near enough astronauts and that making space travel normal will require accepting a lot more deaths. Same as with any other normalized activities. Literally 1 of Magellans 5 ships came home with a half dead crew. Suck it up