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Stephen Fleming retweeted
"Earth is a The Way It Was theme park," actually makes a lot of sense.
My head canon is that the reason Picard works at his family’s vineyard despite the federation being post scarcity is that tourists from all human planets like having all this stuff preserved as kitsch. “A real French guy making real French wine, just like in ye olden days”
All of Earth is like this
Panel: The reason there is no commercial equivalent of the Deep Space Network is that there is no commercial market for DSN capacity. If missions had to pay for their usage, competitors would emerge.
“NASA mission choices are not limited by physics, engineering, or economics. They are limited by fear.” — @JoelSercel
“The market value of platinum-group metals in a 100-ton metallic asteroid is less than $2 million. There’s no way to close a near-term business case based on PGMs.” — @JoelSercel
Stephen Fleming retweeted
A classic chart to counter the wisdom of crowds idea. US Americans are absolutely clueless about how common things are. They think over a quarter of Americans are Native Americans, one in five Americans is transgender, over a quarter of the population are Muslim, one in five households earn over half a million dollars. The right answer to all of these questions is 1%. They build their worldview on totally incorrect assumptions towards reality. Data literacy matters.
“There’s about 60 million tons of Highly Accessible Near-Earth Asteroids which can be nudged into Earth (or Moon) orbits with minimal delta-V. We need to identify and track them.” — @JoelSercel
Stephen Fleming retweeted
Elon's point isn't partisan. It's about who gets to rewrite the rules.
In 1937 FDR, fresh off winning 46 of 48 states, tried to add up to six justices. His own party controlled the Senate, and its Judiciary Committee still killed it: "a measure which should be so emphatically rejected that its parallel will never again be presented."
The Court has had 9 seats since 1869. In 2021 a bill was introduced to make it 13. That same year the House passed DC statehood, 216-208.
Change the referee, add 4 senators, legalize millions of new voters, and you don't win the next election. You win all of them.
I live in Europe. I know what it looks like when one side treats the rules as a tool.
51 senators. That's the whole firewall.
“Near Earth asteroids are the true high ground for military supremacy, and will be the real estate market of the future.” — Dante Lauretta
Stephen Fleming retweeted
Congratulations to Vietnam on the 78th signing the Artemis Accords!
Vietnam joins a growing community of like-minded nations committed to transparency and responsible exploration. We look forward to working together as we expand opportunities for science and discovery on the Moon and beyond.
I walked into “Klara and the Sun” completely cold. (My wife had read the book and wanted to see the movie.) I didn’t know the plot (robots), the reviews (terrible), the director (Taika Waititi), or even the stars (Jenna Ortega and Amy Adams).
The plot has holes big enough to drive a combine harvester through. I continue to wish that aspiring directors of SF movies would actually *read* some science fiction, since every concept in here was explored more competently by SF authors decades ago.
But the locations are lovely. The cinematography is gorgeous. They (mostly) lit the set well enough that you could see what’s going on.
And, oh my lord, does the camera love Jenna Ortega. She’s absolutely LUMINOUS. She commands the screen in a way that makes me think of Audrey Hepburn, and I don’t make that comparison lightly.
It’ll probably leave theaters this weekend, but try to catch it on streaming. It’s worth it.
Stephen Fleming retweeted
There may be something to this. Biology has levels of complexity that the rest do not. That said, maybe AI is perfect for unveiling and cataloging its mysteries. We shall see.
Stephen Fleming retweeted
Neuralink’s first product is called Telepathy.
It enables high-speed communication with computers or humans simply by thinking. Output bandwidth will vastly exceed the fastest human speech or typing in a few years. Read that sentence again.
Stephen Fleming retweeted
Was great to present at the Space Horizons event at the University of Arizona today. Panel on space resources tomorrow!
“We will be turning asteroids, lunar material, and sunlight into intelligence.” — @JoelSercel @TransAstra_Corp
Stephen Fleming retweeted
NASA reopens prospect of commercial Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission
sam.gov/workspace/contract/o…
Jed Hancock, Space Dynamics Laboratory — receiving 1000+ undergraduate applicants for 30 summer internships. There is huge demand by students to work on space science programs.
Stephen Fleming retweeted
Nothing makes me more bullish about the US than the thought of bringing back nuclear power.
An economy is a machine for turning energy into wealth, and without energy, it all comes to a halt.
Stephen Fleming retweeted
Joe Rogan is horrified as Steve Hilton reveals where the 330,000 migrant kids Biden lost actually ended up.
ROGAN: “Holy f*ck!”
HILTON: “The way Bobby puts it is that Becerra turned HHS into the largest child trafficking operation in history.”
A caseworker told Hilton they were ordered to ignore obviously fake IDs and get the kids out the door as fast as possible.
Their directive was “Speed over safety.” If something happens to the kids, so be it.
One girl was put on a plane, handed off to three strange men, and forced to work 20 hours a day.
ROGAN: “Oh my God, it’s shocking. That’s so evil.”
The kids were given a hotline to call if they were in danger. The problem was getting anyone to answer.
HILTON: “There were 65,000 unanswered calls to the hotline.”
And the people who flagged it? “FIRED.”
ROGAN: “It doesn’t even seem like it could be real.”
When Bobby Kennedy Jr. previously described what happened to these kids, he called it a “huge, huge tragedy.”
KENNEDY: “One guy pretended to be the parent of 42 children. We have no idea what happened to those kids.”
“There was about 60 kids who were sent to one address. When we looked at that address, it was a container, a steel container in the middle of a parking lot.”
“A lot of them were sent to work at slaughterhouses and picking fruits in the fields. They were slaves.”
“It’s a huge, huge tragedy. My agency [under Biden] was the single biggest child trafficker in the world.”
And now Xavier Becerra, the man who presided over all of it, wants to be governor of California.
Steve Hilton is running against him.
DeepSpace-2 mission intends to land a probe on an asteroid for $10.4 million years — @MattGialich
“We will be turning asteroids, lunar material, and sunlight into intelligence.” — @JoelSercel @TransAstra_Corp