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“Only we are Earthseed. And the destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars.” —Octavia Butler (tweets don't reflect employer policy)
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Joined October 2009
Maybe space resources can help Earth survive. But, like the Polynesians who settled the Pacific, that's really not the primary reason humanity wishes to explore & settle this new ocean, the depths of space. (Quote below is from Christina Thompson's excellent book Sea People.)
"...Occasionally, there is famine or some other type of trouble, but usually it is a matter of chiefly ambition or pride." (Important. I've often been told the reason Polynesians explored & settled the Pacific is a desperate need for resources. Polynesians' own stories disagree.)
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A reason why a SpaceX IPO coupled with profitable massive in space infrastructure isn’t dumb is that if something happens to Elon, infrastructure is still there to fund trips to Mars’ surface for $100-1000/kg, without relying on billionaire’s largesse. Elon securing legacy.
I don’t think billionaires should be the only ones leading space settlement either. But a major reason they are is that people rejected the idea of space settlement led by the public sector.
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Ottawa and Alberta sign an MOU for a pipeline through BC, but opposition could stop it. What does this mean for Canada's economy? You'll want to hear this episode.
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I don’t think billionaires should be the only ones leading space settlement either. But a major reason they are is that people rejected the idea of space settlement led by the public sector.
@mikusingularity You often complain that literary works treat space as an extension of a cyberpunk-style worldview. But it seems you just stubbornly believe that the future is bright. Let me see who is leading the field ... Oh, Elon and Bezos, I'm sure they must be very kind to their workers.
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This.
I don’t think billionaires should be the only ones leading space settlement either. But a major reason they are is that people rejected the idea of space settlement led by the public sector.
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this would make a perfect ad
🇨🇳 A woman in China tried to hog a parking spot for her husband. So the driver just got out of the car and walked away and let his car finish the job. https://t.co/I3uTPZfvF9
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Want to invest in the next big AI stocks? IBD can show you how.
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Driving in the snow at night feels like you’re shifting into hyperspace in the millennium falcon
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100kW is a big satellite. More than any but like huge space stations.
Three and a half years ago, @neelkunjur and I decided to go from being Brothers, to being Co-Founders. Today, we’re excited to announce that @K2SpaceCo has raised a $250M Series C at a $3B valuation. This round comes on the heels of $500M in signed contracts across commercial and
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I mean yeah the Japanese were the bad guys in WWII. My only problem is the historical inaccuracy in portraying the communists as the ones who pushed them back, when in reality it was the KMT who did the vast majority of the fighting while Mao used the war to expand rural control
🔴 A Chinese game studio released a trailer for their new anti-Japanese war game. https://t.co/hBfsIhi8uD
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You can learn how to dilate and shrink your pupils by will.
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Zohran Mamdani’s “Community Safety” team is full of activists who call cops “violence workers,” want prisons “obsolete,” and vow to shrink the NYPD. New Yorkers are test subjects in what may become the largest anti-policing experiment in the world. My latest for @CityJournal
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Long long road nearly done. 👌
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Anti-AI people will say shit like "AI should help cure cancer not make art!" and then chimp out when you show them AI helping cure cancer:
I was at an event on AI for science yesterday, a panel discussion here at NeurIPS. The panelists discussed how they plan to replace humans at all levels in the scientific process. So I stood up and protested that what they are doing is evil. Look around you, I said. The room is
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American higher education discourse these days is a bit of a weird mix between “college admissions is a nuclear arms race kids are scheduling out 24-7-365 beginning in second grade” and “nobody at Harvard knows how to read anymore.”
Parenting norms in South Korea are apparently insane. American society has been trending in the same direction and we should think about ways to reverse this trend. The stakes aren't actually as high as a lot of parents think they are.
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I want to learn how to dilate and shrink my pupil now.
@Robotbeat It's probably somewhat genetic
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It really does suck that everything is surface mount now. I mean, it’s a better technology fundamentally, but…
This Swe discovered breadboards
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This Swe discovered breadboards
it is fucking insane what i am capable of now
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@Robotbeat I remember figuring out how to consciously change pupil size and my teacher told me that was impossible and I was lying. wonder if I could find the muscle again
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It actually is partially a skill issue. There are some people in Oceania that learned at a young age how to shrink their pupils to pin pricks when under water, so your eye can see detail in spite of being out of focus, like with a pinhole camera. The Moken people.
Why do movies and TV shows keep insisting that people can open their eyes underwater and see clearly? Or is this a skill issue on my end? Is there something wrong with my eyes specifically?
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