Adam Hugo

Space Resources Engineer & Futurist | M.S. Colorado School of Mines | Lunar & asteroid mining, ISRU, AI progress & multi-planetary humanity

[Adam Hugo @AdamHugo]

Incredibly exciting to see this from Blue Origin!
A test deployment of a solar tower designed to generate surface power from a 'peak of eternal light' on the Moon's surface.

[Blue Origin @blueorigin]

Continuous sunlight is scarce on the Moon unless you know where to look. 🌑

The lunar poles contain "peaks of eternal light," areas bathed in near-continuous sunlight. Power Tower mounts on Blue Moon MK1's top deck and extends solar arrays to 26 meters total height to capture that energy and deliver sustained power for Moon Base operations.

Check out this video of Power Tower during a successful deployment in an analog lunar environment.

The infrastructure era of lunar exploration starts now.

[David @DavidSHolz]

5 million humanoid robots working 24/7 can build Manhattan in ~6 months. now just imagine what the world looks like when we have 10 billion of them by 2045. now imagine the year 2100.

[Sam @DigitalSamIAm]

Can we debunk this nonsense?

Elon Musk was awarded (note: not given) cost-per-result contracts to perform a service for the US government. The total of those for SpaceX specifically is ~$22B, which includes repaid loans, state tax incentives, etc.

The deal was simple: put stuff into LEO at or below a set cost. If SpaceX does it below the set cost, SpaceX keeps the difference. If it doesn’t, the company is responsible for the overrun.

End result? SpaceX & Elon lowered the cost of getting 1 kg into LEO by 95-97% vs what NASA was paying previously.

And for the record, every other company around at the time was offered the same opportunity to bid on the contract - Musk/SpaceX just took it.

The handout narrative implies the taxpayer is the patron and SpaceX the dependent. The cost data shows the opposite: before SpaceX, NASA paid Russia’s Soyuz $80-86M per seat; SpaceX delivered at ~$55 million. SpaceX saved the US taxpayer $300M-$465M each year on that alone (the US sends 12-15 astronauts to space each year)

On the lunar lander, NASA estimated SpaceX’s fixed-price bid saved $20B-$30B vs the Boeing-preferred cost-plus approach.

So: SpaceX saved the US taxpayer more than the total value of contracts it earned on a single project, PLUS provided the US government with the requested services (put stuff in LEO) at the best possible price.

[The Climate @DearClimate]

You're not poor because Elon Musk is wealthy.

You're poor because you haven't provided society with anything of extraordinary value.

[ⁿᵉʷˢ Barron Trump 🇺🇸 @BarronTNews_]

🚨 BOOM! Scott Jennings just said what millions of Americans are thinking.

For hours, the same people who preach “equity” and “fairness” have been obsessing over Elon Musk’s wealth instead of asking how he built it.

Think about it.

Electric vehicles.

Rocket launches.

Satellite internet.

Artificial intelligence.

Space exploration.

The man didn’t win the lottery.

He built companies that changed entire industries.

Since when did success become a crime in America?

Why are the people who claim to support innovation always attacking the innovators?

America became the greatest nation on earth because dreamers, builders, inventors, and entrepreneurs were rewarded for taking risks.

You don’t get to Mars by thinking small.

You don’t change the world by envying the people trying to build it.

[Murray 🇺🇸 @Rothbard1776]

The United States government spends $7.5 trillion every 12 months, yet there’s homelessness, poverty and problems all over the country.

Stop acting like Elon Musk can save the entire planet with his (illiquid) net worth he doesn’t even have access to.

You sound stupid.

[el gato malo @boriquagato]

5% of $1 trillion is $50 billion.

there are 19.3 million US college students right now.

$50bn/19.3 million = $2,591 per student currently in school.

average college tuition is $38,270

so, that would pay for 7% of 1 year, about 2 weeks of education for just those already in school.

it's a sad day when even the kleptocrats are mathematically illiterate...

[🇺🇸 Jason Curtis Anderson @JCAndersonNYC]

Elon created 110,000+ jobs while trying to solve civilizational problems in multiple fields (cars, energy, space).

Zohran studied African marxism and lived off his parent’s trust fund into his 30s.

He’s just a communist rich kid who hates rich people who aren’t communists.

[patagucci perf papi @kenwheeler]

a guy makes a non liquid trillion dollars literally with environmentalist technology and furthering human space exploration, while providing the free-est speech platform on the planet, and wifi everywhere and the biggest fucking losers you know are big mad

[cygaar @0xCygaar]

Greatest test of intelligence is asking someone what they think of Elon Musk

[Benedict Spence @BenedictSpence]

Build a rocket company of your own before telling us whether trillionaires should exist.

[Dume @gietzschean]

>Be Elon
>Get bullied so badly as a kid that you end up in the hospital
>Escape into books
>Read more than 8hrs a day
>Teach yourself programming
>Sell a video game at 12
>Leave South Africa
>Sleep on couches
>Work odd jobs
>Get into America
>Build a startup
>Get fired from your own company
>Start over
>Build another company
>Merge it into PayPal
>Get removed as CEO
>Your company gets acquired
>Walk away with nearly $180 million
>Instead of retiring at 31, put almost all of it into three impossible ideas: Electric cars, Solar energy, Rockets
>People tell you you're insane
>Start a rocket company with no aerospace degree
>Learn rocket science from textbooks
>First rocket fails
>Second rocket fails
>Third rocket fails
>Divorce
>Public humiliation
>Cash running out
>One launch away from bankruptcy
>Launch anyway
>The fourth rocket reaches orbit
>NASA signs a contract
>Survive
>Tesla is weeks from collapse
>Save it at the last minute
>Get mocked for wanting reusable rockets.
>Land one.
>Then another.
>Then dozens.
>Turn science fiction into engineering
>Get mocked for betting on EVs
>Turn electric cars into status symbols
>Force the entire auto industry to follow
>Build the most valuable car company in history
>Launch astronauts into orbit
>Create a global satellite internet network.
>Buy Twitter
>Fire most of the staff
>Rename it X
>Walk into politics
>Risk your reputation
>Risk your companies
>Risk your fortune
>Become one of the most polarising people on Earth.
>Get attacked by the media, politicians, competitors, and activists
>Keep building anyway
>Become a TRILLIONAIRE

[Sensurround @ShamashAran]

I know, right?
If only he employed, say, 100k people.

If only he revitalized a dead auto factory in Fremont, California and made cars there, again?

If only he invented a product to allow someone to get Internet access anywhere on the planet, affordably?

If only he proved that electric cars were something people wanted, helping to reduce pollution?

If only he revitalized American excellence in space, allowing us to not rely on Russia for orbital boosting?

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

When politicians say they want to seize/tax "wealth" but actually mean "shares in your own company that you yourself founded", the real point is making it impossible for anyone to actually control their own company for more than a decade.

They won't let you stay, either.

[Gabor Gurbacs @gaborgurbacs]

If you took $1 Trillion from Elon (assuming it was cash), it would run the U.S. government for 49 days. Not even 2 months.

The U.S. doesn't have a billionaire/trillionaire problem, it has a spending problem.

[Dr Manhattva @Manhattva]

Elon Musk has created thousands and thousands of millionaires.

Bernie Sanders has created only 1 millionaire, and his name is Bernie Sanders.

[Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 @ezralevant]

The Globe is owned by Canada's richest oligarch, David Thomson, worth $82 billion. His source of wealth? He inherited it: https://t.co/qxm3HAtCxg

The Thomsons are grifters who take the government media subsidy.

Oh -- and they think you should hate Elon Musk for being rich. 👇

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

this didn't "happen", we caused it

first, children disappeared from daily life
most women turn 30 without ever holding a baby (they don't have siblings or cousins, and young babies have been removed from shared spaces), never changed a diaper or watched one up close.
you cant want what you've never seen

second, we killed the single income.
the average family needs both parents working just to get to the end of the month, so raising a family well went from hard to something practically impossible (2-3 months of maternity leave should be considered a crime against humanity).

then schools and media, the whole cathedral, all pushed towards the same direction in a systematic brainwashing effort: pushing every girl at the career, motherhood turned into that despicable thing you settle for when the better options run out, "a smaller life". nothing worth desiring, and if you do you must be ostracised

social media just finished the job.
presented childfree as freedom and ideal life, filmed the worst four seconds of a mothers day and called it a warning or "here's motherhood"

and underneath all of it, we removed people from history

no ancestors you owe anything, no descendants you're building for, just one atomic self detached from any sense of continuity. one life with no purpose other than its own selfish goals
especially for western people who have been taught that their ancestors are the most evil humans who ever existed
someone with no past and no future has no reason to see themselves as part of history, and everything they do revolves around their own pleasure
why would you carry something you were raised to be ashamed of?

so a quarter of women raised in captivity selecting for civilizational suicide becomes inevitable
the idea that this was a conscious choice is delusional.
we are the first species in history to get everything it ever wanted: safety, medicine, abundance, ninety good years, and the result is suicide.
everything else alive still manages to reproduce through famine and plagues. we got paradise and stopped

anyone shutting off their own survival drive with no threat in sight is definitionally suicidal and that's where we are now

[St. Rev. Dr. Rev ⏭️☯️🏴😻 @St_Rev]

rockets used to grow in the forest and they were distributed evenly all over the world until Elon hoarded them out of spite

[Katie Miller @KatieMiller]

This is the shit that gets people killed.

We should live in a world where we celebrate entrepreneurship, hard work, and once-in-a-lifetime innovation.

Shame on the @globeandmail.