Heskel Balas 🚁
@heskelbalas
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Dad, Engineer, Accountant, Founder. (latter 3 not necessarily in that order) Can I help? I'm not a VC, but my DMs are open
Joined January 2010
If this is true, and it seems to be so, surely the play here is to figure out how to make/get an ungodly amount of solar panels in space.
ELON MUSK: “Think in terms of Kardashev II and the path becomes obvious.” KARDASHEV INTELLIGENCE DOMINANCE: MUSK'S AI ASCENDANCY VISION ELON MUSK: "And if things get to a Kardashev level two, we’re talking about human intelligence. Even assuming a significant increase in human
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Calum's timeline is a goldmine of engineering info and history. Well worth a follow!!
I`m a whisker from 20,000 followers, if (and only if) we can get to 20,000. I will upload 500 pages of WW2 primary source archive files that I copied and cannot be economically retrieved again, to my website. If you have a preference for what topics you want you can ask, and if
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Cool project. @robotbeat was just posting about the glider form factor for drones, well here you go..
The Wright Brothers gave humanity flight, Alteon exists to give humanity (almost) perpetual flight. Alteon Energy builds the world’s highest endurance airplanes – ones that can fly for ~417 days at a time without landing. Today, I’m excited to share with the world our first
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two minutes of magic 🪄 eight years of obsession robot that changed everything 👇
Wired: 10/10 💯 The Verge: "The best robot vacuum" + 9/10 🔥 Shopify Shop: 5.0 perfect score ⭐ ZDNet: Editor's Choice 🏆 Gizmodo: Editor's Choice 🏆 Meet Matic — your home's best helper 🤖
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@CJHandmer Elon's hinted about building solar panels on the moon. Blue Origin has demonstrated the tech to make solar panels out of lunar regolith. We're going to need diggers that work up there, and they're going to need to be electric. @ahmedshubber25 has remote operation on the roadmap
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I know @CJHandmer had a blog on why space-based solar power didn't make sense for beaming back down to Earth, but I wonder if there's an update to be had that explores it for space based activities (beyond AI). Like if we want to use antimatter for space propulsion and it'll
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This isn't just about AI data centers in space. Ultimately most energy intensive processes will make more sense to be in space, just because there's way more energy to be had up there from the sun. It's all very O'Neillian
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This is a great analogy for the West. Right now we see the arches, but we've forgotten what it took to build them in the first place...
If you want to understand the universe, you can't just look at what's there. You have to imagine what isn't, but was. This is a picture of an arch. It's a marvel of primitive architecture. In fact, the similarity of those two words is not a coincidence. All of those stones
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That's a huge milestone, and we are early to this
NEWS: @boringcompany President Steve Davis says they could cut tunneling costs to about $10M per mile within 2–5 years, and eventually to $3M–$4M per mile. For comparison, traditional tunneling projects cost $500M to $3B per mile, depending on its size, complexity and location.
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It costs over 10x more to develop a new plane than a new rocket. Largely because we are further in the plane tech tree than in the rocket one, and that’s because the launch market is too small. That’s why com constellations or space data centers are so important: volume.
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There's no lock in. If there's no lock in, there's no moat. They have to be working on this, surely
Holy shit. I’ve used ChatGPT every day for 3 years. Just spent 2 hours on Gemini 3. I’m not going back. The leap is insane — reasoning, speed, images, video… everything is sharper and faster. It feels like the world just changed, again. ❤️ 🤖
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@ApoStructura @MikeSouthWestUK There's a lot more sunlight to harvest than nuclear fuel. The future is in space, it's just how long it takes us to get there. Exponential curves go fast, so if we find a flywheel like starlink & reusable launch, we could get there much sooner than anyone thinks
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Case. In. Point. https://t.co/Rt86W3eLiR
SpaceX’s founding story is 2002 Elon calculating all the commodity prices of the steel, carbon fibre, propellant, etc for building a rocket and realising they only made up 2% of the price. He noticed the capacity for 50x cost savings and went on to realise them. I’ve ran similar
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I’m excited to be a scout for 9D VC. We invest in contrarian ideas at the earliest stages or something like that. I don’t really know but they gave me money to yolo. Hmu with what you’re working on
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A public list of products ranked by their idiot index would probably spur so much innovation as people realise where the opportunities lie
You’re telling me we can mass produce millions of these rotating assemblies per year for barely more cost than the input steel, but we can’t make more TURBOMACHINERY FOR POWER GENERATION??? Turbomachinery has idiot indexes of 50+ Btw
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Hey @FilArons got a recommendation for a good onion soup recipe? It's freezing and that would hit the spot rn
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I have a dumb question about lasers as weapons (obligatory @LaFrogman tag). With all the laser weapons and recent talks about space being better for power, why aren't we seeing talk re golden dome using lasers (unless I missed it). SpaceX already proved you can reliably point
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This is just an insane casual flex
https://t.co/op5s4ZikGJ, which will be renamed Encyclopedia Galactica when it is at least slightly deserving of the name, is a major project @xAI. This is intended to be a massive open source repository of all knowledge about the Universe. Many copies will be distributed
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It is quite remarkable what can be achieved, in all aspects of life, through nothing more than sheer bloody-minded persistence
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