Frank Slazer
@FSlazer
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Space exploration advocate 🚀 🛰️🌞🪐🌎🌓 & proud @SyracuseU alum 🍊 & @DLBA resident who knows that life's too short for bad weather! 😎 he/him 🏳️🌈 🇺🇦🇺🇸
Long Beach, CA
Joined May 2012
I challenge anybody to drive Hwy 1 from Laguna Beach to SF and tell me they still hate CA Take a week or two, get a rented convertible, drive slow, make all the stops and take lots of pictures I promise you’ll enjoy the trip
The "California Effect" is when you read on social media that a place is "hell on earth," and then you go visit it and wonder why you don't live there.
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Project Athena would dismantle the entire traditional aerospace industrial base to favor SpaceX. Boeing: As the prime contractor for the SLS Core Stage and Exploration Upper Stage (EUS), Boeing faces the total loss of its primary civil space production line. Lockheed Martin:
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British aeronautical engineer and motorcycle racer Beatrice "Tilly" Shilling.... In early years of WWII, British fighter pilots were dying not just from enemy fire, but from their own engines. The Rolls-Royce Merlin, powerful as it was, had a deadly weakness: during negative-G
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Good question
Why would employees sell at 800B$ valuation now with the perspective of an IPO in 2026? Unless the 1500B$ valuation that Morgan Stanley is touting (with their usual restraint) is completely off the charts of course.
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Proud to say this vital effort is being done in Long Beach CA! Ford’s Car of the Future, Hatched in a Skunk Works Near Los Angeles https://t.co/TeeuqNJQAl via @NYTimes
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Desperate to catch up with Chinese automakers, Ford is redesigning its fleet with a Silicon Valley-style team. Is it too late?
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Spot on!
This is going to happen more and more often. This is why the US and China need to be able to talk to each other to coordinate for spaceflight safety reasons, and it needs to happen not only at the national level but at the commercial operator level as well
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Considering this development, SpaceX going public may have less to do with colonizing Mars than getting SpaceX funds to pursue space data centers as the capital markets start to question the hype of ginormous AI investments.
$ORCL bond holders now sit on 9% of unrealized losses on $18 billion of debt issued just this September with the bonds falling to “junk” rating as CDS jump from 1.58 on December 9th to 1.71 December 12, now matching its highest number since the Great Recession. Oracle has made
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Sounds eerily similar to the launch of Challenger despite the colder than allowable weather conditions.
Pad personnel struggled to secure the mobile platform before last month's botched Soyuz launch but proceeded to liftoff anyway so not disappoint bosses and tourists, according to unofficial reports. DETAILS: https://t.co/0e2wF3UjpN
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Axiom Space and @KBRincorporated successfully completed the first uncrewed thermal vacuum test of the spacesuit that will be worn when astronauts return to the moon. The test simulated the vacuum and extreme temperatures of space to evaluate the spacesuit’s thermal performance
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Or, as the saying goes: “You get what you pay for!”
If you want to understand why starter homes in LA are over $1,000,000, this is the 10-day weather forecast We are in December
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A fantastic example of private sector innovation being applied to emerging market needs!
A new product, a new customer, a new financing! Introducing Superpower: a 42MW natural gas turbine optimized for AI datacenters, built on our supersonic technology. Superpower launches with a 1.21GW order from @CrusoeAI Backstory 🧵👇
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Syracuse Orange sure looks great against the beautiful blue skies and ocean of California!
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NASA says Artemis II could happen as soon as February - does anyone think we will avoid another USG shutdowns when the CR ends in January?!
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Great summary of a vital hearing. But nobody mentioned the elephant in the room; Congress’ unwillingness to require NASA have a detailed plan & follow thru with funding. And how many USG shutdowns during Apollo? Zero! We have met the enemy & he is us!
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“I absolutely believe the current architecture, with SLS, is the fastest path to achieving our near-term lunar objectives, which should be to return to the moon before our great rival,” he told Cruz.
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Leaders of the Senate Commerce Committee said they hope to swiftly confirm Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator during a Dec. 3 hearing.
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And the replacement problem and, likely the upfront investment may be even worse for space based data centers. We all want there to be a “killer app” for space but the business model has to make sense - it’s not clear AI makes business sense let alone if it’s hosted in space.
The IBM CEO is basically doing the math and saying it doesn't add up. Building and operating a 1-gigawatt AI data center costs about $80 billion. Companies are planning roughly 100 GW of capacity, which is $8 trillion total. The problem is you'd need $800 billion per year in
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I don’t really get the landlord hate. I have a condo I rent out and I want to break down the math for everyone that hates “greedy landlords”. I’m gonna round so the math is cleaner. I rent my place fully furnished and cover all utilities. Mortgage: $2,200 HOA: $500 Utilities:
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