Casey Handmer
@CJHandmer
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Physicist, Immigrant, Pilot, Dad. Former Caltech, Hyperloop, NASA JPL. Founder @terraformindies. Read scrolls. Build more solar!
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Joined June 2012
This is actually a problem. Corporate law assumes large companies are owned by lots of shareholders, governed by boards, and led by a hired professional CEO. But we have a handful of extremely successful large companies that are still founder-controlled. Their billions are not
This isn't close to how the Giving Pledge works. More importantly, it highlights the issue of where will the very large tech fortunes eventually go. In the (gated) article, Thiel recounts Musk responding, “What am I supposed to do—give it to my children?” Many tech founders I've
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I also got this in my feed: https://t.co/POCOYJ3Jh9 Copper is quite fungible, it turns out.
LA suffering from a plague of theft of copper wiring, knocking out our street lights and requiring very expensive repairs. As usual, because many of the members have a defective understanding of human nature, our city council is exploring every possible solution (solar, alarms,
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Need a comprehension engine to intermediate media and my ears. Why can't @Spotify ingest random glitchy audio, transcribe, translate, and rerender at 1.7x speed automatically audio balanced for the background noise in my car?
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I am ready for this. People will come from all over the world to marvel at California building a new city.
1/ 🇺🇸 Today, @CAForever submitted detailed plans for the next great American city, an hour north of Silicon Valley, including: Solano Foundry, America’s largest manufacturing park, Solano Shipyard, our largest shipyard, and walkable neighborhoods for 400,000 Californians.
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During Mars launch windows in future, about 2 months every two years, the tropical evening sky will see shows like this every few minutes as Starships that were parked in orbit perform their departure burn.
Here's my 80mm refractor vid of @SpaceX Starship flying south of Florida on IFT-11. The beauty of the sunlit exhaust blew me away! I'll have the full 4K version along with the 11" telescope video later; you can see the silhouette of Starship against its exhaust!
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Great to host a tour of @terraformindies for #LATechWeek. About 40 brave souls looked at all the hardware, enjoyed Q&A, and even tried climbing the walls.
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"If NASA and United States can not beat the Chinese back to the moon, then the moon belongs to the Chinese, and we get what we deserve." You don't want to miss this interview. I met Casey Handmer (@CJHandmer) while flying fighter jets in Montana. I Immediately I knew he had a
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The robotic urge to bleed out on an asteroid
Despite not being made for a landing, on February 12, 2001, after a year orbiting the asteroid Eros, the NEAR spacecraft softly touched down on its surface NEAR lived for two weeks after landing before expiring. She lays there today, silent and still, under a wide and starry sky
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Imagine looking at any industrialized economy and thinking "you know what, we should create some artificial scarcity around a basic need to divert what little surplus development capital we have into even larger intergenerational wealth transfers and away from factories."
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Starbase is entirely accessible to the public, and the only place in the world you can get this close to a rocket so close to launch
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Took the kids cycling today to the local airport, bacon and eggs with liveatc and flightradar24 on the table, my chain derailed twice including once getting jammed into the hub quite persistently. Then back home the garage door also derailed. Anyway, not planning on taking any
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When the booster is toasty, yes.
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Who has the best chart of supply chain, industrial verticals, current participants, start ups, funding, etc?
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I'm going to the Progress Conference next week. I'll be interested to see how many of the poasters have progressed to incorporation, hiring, raising, etc.
The think tanks saying “oh no, we’ll never recover from this” are full of people who could never imagine *personally* doing something about it. You can just fix things.
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