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Mechanical engineering student, semi-profesional beerpong player, squash crazy South African

Cape Town, South Africa
Joined September 2019
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Starlink has been told by some governments (not Ukraine) to block Russian news sources. We will not do so unless at gunpoint. Sorry to be a free speech absolutist.
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I'm in the US for the first time in 2 1/2 years, and talking face to face with people is immensely more productive than talking over Zoom. If Zoom were the default and someone just invented face to face, it would seem like an amazing step forward.
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The University of KwaZulu-Natal's Aerospace Systems Research Group (ASReG) has successfully tested a powerful liquid propellant rocket engine as the first step towards developing a launch vehicle for placing satellites into Earth orbit. @UKZN #itspossible dst.gov.za/index.php/media-r…
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The paper "Metal additive manufacturing in aerospace: A review" is officially accepted and published as of today! A huge thank you to all of my co-authors, I am incredibly grateful for all your excellent inputs and hard work. This…lnkd.in/eAdPy-Y lnkd.in/exrtupA
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All scientific articles should be free and accessible to everyone.
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NASA has selected Starship to land the first astronauts on the lunar surface since the Apollo program! We are humbled to help @NASAArtemis usher in a new era of human space exploration → go.nasa.gov/3tur510
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If Cancel Culture is really going to have Donald J. Trump removed from the John Hughes movie “Home Alone,” then in support of MY PRESIDENT, I’d like to have myself officially removed from the John Hughes’ films, “Pretty In Pink” and “Ferris Buhler’s Day Off.”😂
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Hey @elonmusk is there anyway you could work with Andrew Torba @getongab on securing and improving it’s free speech platform as well as the prototype GAB phone that he’s created?. WE THE PEOPLE will totally have your FULL SUPPORT!. #FreedomOfSpeechMatters 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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If private companies can “do what they want” then every business across America should be open right now.
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Approved speech is not free speech. A dangerous precedent is being attempted to undue our democracy as we know it.
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Mars, here we come!!
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Successful ascent, switchover to header tanks & precise flap control to landing point!
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SN8 test launch attempt number two, good luck @SpaceX!
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The college debt “forgiveness” Biden’s team is planning is just paying off mostly white lib voters from 3rd tier colleges with worthless humanities degrees It’s a transfer of wealth from welders, plumbers, and general contractors to adjunct professors and MSNBC watchers
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70 million pissed off republicans and not one city burned to the ground.
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Literally crying 😭😭☠️☠️☠️ i was not expecting that 🤣🤣💀 #TheInternetWins
Yep seems about right to me. (u/balaqe)
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"There must surely come a time when heat and power are stored in unlimited quantities in every community, all gathered by natural forces. Electricity ought to be as cheap as oxygen, for it cannot be destroyed."
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"We should utilize natural forces & thus get all of our power. Sunshine is a form of energy. Winds & tides are forms of energy. Do we use them? Oh, no! We burn up wood & coal as renters burn up the front fence for fuel. We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property."
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Thomas Edison - 1910: "This scheme of combustion to get power makes me sick to think of - it is so wasteful. It's just the old, foolish Prometheus idea and the father of Prometheus was a baboon. When we learn how to store electricity we will cease being apes ourselves."
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