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if so, I apologize to @mattparlmer
for misreading.
I've just been in this fight so many times. Poe's law.https://twitter.com/ZombieDevaney/status/1345099789759868928 …
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14/ but getting back to "space stuff is JUST US trying to ..." this is how the game is played: I can list 100 huge improvements, and every one is dismissed via ad hoc new rules. "When I said tech growth is dead, obviously we reject stuff that's motivated by competition" wat
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15/ The US landed drones on the moon in 1966. Apollo astronauts later landed near one of these probes and took parts of it back to Earth. You think Elon Musk's SpaceX is merely the US trying to "close the gap" w China duplicating this 60 yrs later? https://twitter.com/Austauschbandit/status/1345100421753434113 …
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17/ There's this weird thing where people don't count tech as real unless it impacts them directly and obviously... and if it DOES, then it's dismissed as MERE consumer goods. This is a catch 22. You're a consumer. EVERYTHING you touch is consumerist.
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18/ TVs 6 feet wide with insane resolution and a bajillion frames per second, for $500? Consumer toy. Good-as-reality video games? Consumer toy. Pocket supercomputer? Toy. Improved logistics? don't care But that cuts YOUR costs, delivers stuff to you next day for free!
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19/ oh, yeah, that sounds bad - it hurts mom and pop shops reusable spaceships? don't care but that makes satellites cheap, which means you can live anywhere you want and telecomute! so it just extends work everywhere? down with capitalism sigh
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20/ this is "Yes, but" from the book Games People Play
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21/ everyone loves a pedant -- especially a pedant who incorrectly conflates "size" with just one of three dimensions.https://twitter.com/marcoJcosta/status/1345103194565849092 …
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Replying to @MorlockP @mattparlmer
I would buy a book of your best tweet threads
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