Redeye

Not to be confused with green

[Redeye @255i1]

@vogelfau @NekoKirito7 You don’t understand the difference between Wealth, Value, and Currency. All are usually shown on paper in the same unit system, but are wildly different in reality.

[Redeye @255i1]

@TheBrianMcManus @DJSnM Ski goggles, with a wide elastic band and a pocketable power/compute pack.

[Redeye @255i1]

@AlfredMacBrutus @HistoryBro1 We watched it get sprayed out of the collision of two neutron stars, which are probably made entirely of neutronium.
https://t.co/JdbVe6VDaC

[Redeye @255i1]

@Robotbeat First major users are probably going to be college athletes. Scan the whole team before and after a workout, before and after a game, etc.

[Redeye @255i1]

@bumbadum14 Jackson isn’t great, but Bottoms is so bad her anti-coattails might sink Ossoff

[Redeye @255i1]

@Robotbeat @lVlarty @py_thri @SpaceKoala If whatever you’re building accelerates faster than a large mirror or PV array can handle, and batteries are still too low output, you’ll need a reactor of some kind.

[Redeye @255i1]

@Robotbeat This is how you demonstrate break-even. Really the demo is showing you have magnets above some given field strength or stte, CFS did that years back and are assembling their demo reactor now. They should get 11 watts out per 1 watt in.
https://t.co/FmNJUK1mgO

[Redeye @255i1]

@bonchieredstate The more significant factor is the amount of energy Elon is talking about is enough to trivially boil the oceans, so it cannot be located on Earth. If he gets even to a fraction this scale, the economic and civilizational implications are unprecedented.

[Redeye @255i1]

@bonchieredstate In space, you get to skip building the reactor part and just go straight to the heat exchanger + turbine/direct photoelectric conversion. Orbiting a giant, free fusion reactor is very convenient.

[Redeye @255i1]

@tecrinex @RokoMijic Small reactors have way more operating hours. SMRs are basically navy reactors brought on-land.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Asteroid mining is not only going to make a lot more trillionaires, it's going to make us all rich.

Just like the Industrial Revolution, the Space Revolution will greatly increase standards of living across humanity... yours, mine, everyone's.

Electric light and indoor plumbing were once luxuries. Now they are so universal that we can have them and still think of ourselves as poor. But preindustrial folk would have thought us wealthy beyond measure. What's coming is another paradigm shift.

You may think this is all theoretical.

You may think asteroid mining is an unproven concept. You're wrong. Because you don't know one critical fact.

We're already asteroid mining.

And we've been doing it since the Bronze Age.

All gold we mine on earth, all the copper for wires, the uranium for reactors, all the iron for nails, everything made of heavy metals that you own, or use, or have ever seen... it's all mined from ancient asteroid strikes.

All the native Earth metals sunk to the core when the whole planet was molten. Past our reach.

Do you think there are precious metals, like gold and silver and platinum? Do you think that even common metals, like iron and tin and copper, cost a lot to extract and refine?

Artificial scarcity.

Every piece of metal you have ever seen was sourced from the tiny percentage of asteroids that once hit Earth.

Leave the gravity well, learn to sail the void, and we can loot all the asteroids that haven't.

Imagine that we built all of civilization picking up our raw materials, grain by grain, with tweezers.

Asteroid mining, true asteroid mining, is a shovel. And no, not a hand tool shovel, I mean the shovel attachment on the front of an industrial digger.

That's why SpaceX has trillion dollar plus valuation. And unless we screw things up on Earth, and sabotage them somehow, that valuation is way too low.

Below here, you'll see a different part of the plan. A little company, running out of a little industrial space in the San Fernando Valley, is building humanity the ultimate shopping bag.

They think Mars is a sideshow, you see.

They want to bag up asteroids, just scoop the little ones right up with a great big robot butterfly net, and bring back to high Earth orbit.

Strip them down there, and build.

If you thought data centers in space are wild, wait until you see factories in space. Wait until everything from toasters to CPUs to machine tools are made in high orbit, or on the moon, and the only bits that ever make it to Earth on the finished products.

In space, minerals are cheap. And power is free. And it doesn't cost much of anything to move goods down a gravity well.

You have no idea what's coming.

Neither does SpaceX or Transastra, for that matter. They've got a hold of the tail of the elephant, and they think the Space Revolution is a rope.

I'm a science fiction author. My job is to see the whole elephant.

It's a big fucking elephant.

[Matt Drew @mdrew4nh]

Musk plays in the real world. He can't just handwave away government control of the markets he's interested in.

He subverted them instead with sheer competence. Musk broke into the MOST crony market there is - space operations. A market totally politically controlled by military-industrial giants and their government apparatchiks. And he did it by becoming so good and so cheap that the government couldn't afford NOT to use his services.

Do you understand how absolutely insane that is?

[Redeye @255i1]

@danaen803 @Robotbeat You would be amazed at how many opportunities lie behind doing something just slightly differently. Unfortunately, the incentives are overwhelmingly against doing things differently in most cases, especially in contracting.

[Redeye @255i1]

@harshad1313 @peterrhague

[Eric Berger @SciGuySpace]

Picked up some good tidbits from NASA's Jeremy Parsons on Artemis III: More about Blue Origin's "test" lander, why Blue Moon Mk1 does not need to fly first, and why the crew won't enter Starship.

https://t.co/KQnvtQVaxn

[NASA @NASA]

LIVE: Meet the crew of our next Artemis mission.

We're sharing the latest updates on Artemis III: https://t.co/UtesXxsNxm

[Jack O'Neill @Jack2LOneill]

Stargate Command has a message for you.

HAVE YOU SIGNED THE STARGATE REVIVAL PETITION?

No? Well then here's the link.

That's an order SGC personnel.
https://t.co/M5cAurmUh5

[IGN @IGN]

Stargate SG-1 actor Michael Shanks is rallying fans to protest Amazon's shock cancellation of its previously-announced franchise revival. https://t.co/KccbeYMV7i

[Redeye @255i1]

@basedepicman @Robotbeat We probably wouldn’t be nearly as antsy about basket case 3rd world countries owning rectenna arrays as we would SMRs. There’s also a geopolitical benefit: you can (potentially) order the sudden remote deactivation of the power beaming.

[Owen Lewis @is_OwenLewis]

Hey @amazon and @AmazonMGMStudio, please reverse your decision on the new Stargate show. Fans want to see it, let it happen, and give Martin Gero and his team free reign with it.

You can still do the right thing!