For decades there have been two defining hallmarks of a world power - Nuclear Energy, and a Space Program. These demand the complete tech stack, there's no shortcuts, no compromise. Few nations in history have achieved both. In that sense, Texas today is doing what many have tried - building a spacefaring industrial civilization - and it is unique in the United States. It's own electrical grid. Permission to build. Nowhere in the US can you build faster, move faster, with more freedom, and it shows - housing is getting cheaper, people are moving to Texas, and it is the new home of an increasing number of hardware companies, not just in nuclear, and space, but biotech, neurotech, manufacturing, robotics, housing, defense, and computing. It will be clear that in hindsight not all cultures, not all civilizations can do this - that producing the entire techno-industrial stack, from primary energy production, mining and refining, forging and casting, all the way to heavy-lift orbital rockets, next-generation computing, satellites, robotics - this is rare. It is not every culture that produces a spacefaring civilization, but one that we know for sure that can do it is the United States, and nowhere is more of that culture of industrial enterprise, innovation, and risk-taking embodied then the state of Texas. So for all those reasons @deeptechweek is going to Austin, starting next week, with 25 events and 2,000 people signed up, and talks spanning defense, energy, construction, biotech, 12 factory tours, receptions and happy hours every day, talks by @StuartHameroff on the Physics of Consciousness, and of course, a closing party at @AaloAtomics nuclear reactor factory, because hell yeah. Thank you to @DeveloperHarris and @americanhousing for hosting our kickoff hardware showcase, @CaitlinCloud9 and @Jason_A_Scharf and @JackRuhl helping cofound Austin DTW and making it happen. Aspera Ad Astra