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Elon Musk funded a $100 million carbon sequestration Xprize that was awarded this year.

Did you hear a peep about it from the media?

I didn't. Climate change is off the agenda, ramping up the electric grid priority one. All other priorities rescinded.

People really underestimate just how deep and heavy the Earth’s gravity well is.

#Space #Astrodon

“After years of resisting it, SpaceX now plans to go public. Why?”

I have a giant load of cash standing by, just for this possibility.

Article: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/12/after-years-of-resisting-it-spacex-now-plans-to-go-public-why/

#Space #Astrodon #SpaceX #Falcon9 #Starship #ElonMusk

Newton’s fixed reusable fairing and upper module of its reusable first stage. The expendable upper stage and its payload sits inside this.

#Space #Astrodon #Rocketlab #PeterBeck

B1067

Falcon 9 booster B1067, 32nd launch and landing.

#SpaceX #Falcon9 #ElonMusk

@petra Spacefaring man will regard groundpounders with the same amused contempt with which we regard pajeets.

@judgedread It brings to mind what was discussed here before. Colonizing space is going to have an incredible selection effect on humans and culture when it takes off for real. After a century you are going to have two entirely different peoples. The conflicts in the Age of Sail will look quaint in comparison.

@Guiles 'Moonbase Alpha Electromagnetic Command, fire a few tons of rock at that impudent dirtman.'

@Largo Culture of the US vs. every other nation that ever existed.

The US is the total anti-traditionalist engine of creative destruction.

Techbros claim that Europe has no revolutionary businesses because they have no sense of urgency. They make a plan to get started in six months, not immediately. Whereas US startups pursue cash like a man whose hair is on fire seeks water.

Used Falcon 9 boosters B1067 and B1077. B1067 flew 32 times!

#Space #Astrodon #SpaceX #Falcon9 #Starship #ElonMusk

@jb That will work out about as well as cutting Russia off from the global credit system did.

@ins0mniak @Leyonhjelm It's time to pull the missiles out, fold up the nuclear umbrella, and drop DuoLingo coupon codes for learning Russian.
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@ins0mniak The tech podcasts I listen to all scratch their heads about this because on paper Europe has it all. Intelligent highly educated people, a scientific and technical tradition centuries old, a gigantic common market, respect for law and very little crime.

Economists and even far right fanatics would predict that the EU would crush all competition.

But the US has an X factor beyond the dreams of economists and political partisans.

It's why we alone landed men on the Moon.

@ins0mniak The US is still stronger than the EU. Ukraine is in trouble because the EU doesn't have a real army or any capacity to manufacture weapons and ammunition at scale. US is also in a sad state - but not that sad. US could revitalize a lot faster, just look how they're fast tracking energy production and throwing up data centers and chip fabs. Europe's idea of an AI initiative is putting 24 million euros into a few pilot programs. The US is investing a billion+ bucks a day. European products don't move the needle anymore. Asia vs. America is where the action is.

To be fair, the waitress, apologizing for the trouble, said she would have the kitchen make new meals, which is supposed to happen in cases like this, but the kitchen very obviously refused to do. What came back was literally the same plate, so we refused the meal. We weren't touching that crap.

The fat sheboon 'manager' on duty tried to make us pay, saying that she 'cannot cancel an order that's already made'. Our client directed some choice words to her, dropped a $10 on the table and we left.

@CliffSecord @Dagnar it’s more than “franchise everything”

recall that the only skill the jew has is “arbitrage”; they’ll go for high-value arbitrage if they can get it (monopolizing natural information flows), but simply as a matter of habit, they’ll go for the easier version of automatically arbitraging the difference in value between “what you expect them to deliver” and “what they can get away with delivering”

this is their superpower, underpinning literally everything they do: find a market with a monetizable expectation, then shortchange it by economizing what you deliver until that market is completely destroyed

food adulteration, coin-clipping, counterfeit, slave labor, importation of substandard goods, endless quibbling and reinterpretation of words; literally every jew pathology is of this type

the problem is that this behavior has a natural lifespan: you can only arbitrage expectations when people still have expectations - when the average Joe expects an undifferentiated mass of cheap chink shit in any and every store, surly niggers bringing uncooked meat between slabs of cardboard in every restaurant, and coinage in their pocket that has less gold in it than seawater, they have reached the asymptotic limit of their ability to extract value from that system and the grift collapses

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