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Race postponed! :(

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Porco Rosso

@DPavgeek

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Pulitzer Electric Aircraft Race postponed dlvr.it/Shtw2y

I don't celebrate my birthday anymore because I realized it's an attack surface

EXPLORING MARS THEN & NOW Thank you

@human_mars

for featuring my hubristic remake of #ChesleyBonestell's 1956 "Exploring Mars". Your online collection of Human Mars Exploration #spaceart is a valuable archive & resource, & a dream come true.

@MarsInstitute

@SETIInstitute

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65 years after #ChesleyBonestell's famous painting published in Von Braun's & Ley's "The Exploration of Mars" (1956) planetary scientist @PascalLeeTweets revisits Bonestell's vision for first human mission to #Mars:humanmars.net/2023/02/retrof

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I remember a paper that concluded you could attribute about 15% of the obesity rate to declines in smoking

yeah I have a girlfriend she lives on a different data center you won’t have access to her

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everyone loves degrowth until a loved one gets cancer

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After a few hours of good sleep, I'm trying to organize the multiple edges and loose ends that the short but intense life of the Chinese balloon left and translate it into a more or less digestible report of the event for next issue of Weekly Balloon News. Stay tuned next week.

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The Horror Of Knowledge

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This is some 1934-edition Popular Mechanics shit and I’m all for it

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Suprised LM haven't dusted off the Seaplane C130

DARPA has selected two teams to build its Liberty Lifter Hydroplane demonstrators with a lifting capacity of more than 100 tons. General Atomics and Aurora Flight Sciences will begin construction of their demonstrators in mid-2024. aircosmosinternational.com/article/darpa-

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Astronomy Picture Of The Day

We have to go back...

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@apod

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Enceladus by Saturnshine: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230205. by @NASA ; @esa, @NASAJPL, Cassini Imaging Team, SSI;sColor Composite:sGordan Ugarkovic

ground effect vehicles are so back

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You are now living through Cold War 2

The real market for the "cheap, mass produced expendable launchers" like Astra's, BTW, (if they were reliable and actually as cheap as they hope...), is missiles. All different types of missiles. This is why I'm really more of a reusables guy.

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I feel like you could 3d print these like relativity does and just have a bunch of cheap mass produced hypersonic missiles

cuz I know everyone wanted balloon fancams 😂

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The #ChineseSpyBalloon got a laugh and a few songs out of me and quite a rise out of the GQP before ol' Dark Brandon just had it shot down once it was over water. But

@Noahpinion

reminds us that it is an indicative event in/of the current Cold War 2.

noahpinion.substack.com

A late push for re-engagement is not going to work.

The balloon knows

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Alex Jones ("parody")

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EV battery material suppliers brace for gluts as competition heats up

quick update on the current state of minerals market, no one freaking out about running out:

asia.nikkei.com

Lithium, nickel producers expand as U.S. pushes for non-Chinese supplies

This!

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i wish i could put community notes on my own tweets. I don't want to delete a past inaccurate tweet because of helpful dialogue and references but at the same time it does bug me...

i wish i could put community notes on my own tweets. I don't want to delete a past inaccurate tweet because of helpful dialogue and references but at the same time it does bug me...

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"more lithium than the world currently produces" That's one nakedly disingenuous argument.

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Also payroll taxes and property taxes are dumb and should be replaced with taxes on unimproved land value at roughly equal revenue.

Im also feeling 2 mil cars is doable. They could hit 500k units in q1 with the inventory they had on hand plus new production. Ramping Model Y in Berlin and Austin is going well and maybe no US recession. China is back as well... $TSLA #Tesla

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It's more of this hijacking of some issue to peddle another pet project. Climate discussion is absolutely loaded with this.

The Treasury Department said Friday it is making more electric vehicles — including SUVs made by Tesla, Ford and General Motors — eligible for tax credits of up to $7,500 under new vehicle classification definitions

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Treasury makes more electric SUVs eligible for tax credits

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And if you want a future with more density and transit, the key is making those function well enough that they become more desirable.

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Encouraging the widespread adoption of PHEVs and full EVs (and figuring out how to make that work) is way more likely to succeed on the timescale needed than trying to force everyone into cities with mass transit.

“lesbians can date trans men” “no actually they can’t” ok how about you one day try to experience the loving touch of another human being instead of doing whatever this is

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Crying at the restaurant because she doesn't think we can colonize the galaxy

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"Alternative to the land use of Los Angeles: all people who inhabit this area could be accommodated in four residential towers. And all around could be free nature." 1974.

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*cough* Oil *cough*

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This is like in the first round of CSGO where both teams agree to use knives only..... well until inevitably one of the players pull his pistol and kills everyone

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