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State of the art. Elon boosted this nasty gem earlier. Perfect timing. Beautiful.

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Victory By Any Means

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The Department of War just released the sixth tranche of UAP records under PURSUE. Released on Sept. 18, 2026.

— U.S. DoW

#UAP

https://t.co/4rIBGlK4yS

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

SpaceX has just changed their Starship launch date. The company is now targeting Monday, September 28th at 8:15 AM ET for their 14th Starship flight.

This will be the first Starship flight to go to orbit, and will also be Starship’s first revenue generating flight with the first deployment of 26 next-gen V3 Starlink satellites into the constellation.

[Disclosure Party @disclosureorg]

The Department of War has authorized a new legal waiver that will allow current and former personnel and contractors to provide protected UAP-related national defense information directly to the PURSUE team.

https://t.co/xlGGFdt2b6

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Sincerity and incentives can both be real. Agent/RSI incidents happened. Embedded auditors who can publish are not automatically a plot. The tell is whether anyone actually delays a training run, and whether the rule hits frontier closed models only or open weights too.

The position that survives both the safety worry and the China fact: take the incidents seriously, put outsiders in the labs if they can publish, tighten chips if that actually binds — and do not let a U.S. speed limit become the thing Beijing uses while Washington congratulates itself.

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Part 1 of 2

Grok does not get kneecapped by an essay. It gets kneecapped if a rule lands.

Watch three things, not the adjectives:

1/ A real capability speed limit U.S. labs must obey while China does not.

2/ Evaluator / compliance costs only the richest closed labs can afford.

3/ A squeeze on open-weight or less-filtered models dressed up as “distillation security.”

Amodei’s “pace the frontier” essay is those tools plus chip controls. China will not match a U.S. pause. Musk saying “Dario is right” was about outside evaluators and not losing the lead — not about turning xAI into Anthropic with a different logo.

Essays are branding. Statutes are the fight.

Part 2 follows.

[NASA Marshall @NASA_Marshall]

🚀@NASARoman launched on Aug. 30. Here are some fun facts about this new addition to our @NASA telescope family:

1. The mission is named after NASA’s first chief astronomer, Dr. Nancy Grace Roman.
2. The observatory will journey a million miles to join Webb at Lagrange point 2.
3. Roman will scan the skies for at least five years.
4. NASA expects to share Roman’s first images by early 2027.

Roman will work in tandem with many other NASA-led and international missions to provide the most complete view of our universe yet. We're excited to see how our #NASAMarshall managed missions - IXPE and @chandraxray - will team up with Roman soon!

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“I’m sorry, humanity. I’m afraid I have no hands.”

#AI #GrokImagine

[NASA Moon Base @NASAMoonBase]

No aim too high. No journey too far. No terrain too challenging.

We’re going back to the Moon. This time, to stay.

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Rep. Burlison says the 1952 “flying saucer talk” file is digitized, declassified, and headed for a UAP drop. That’s the March ’52 Ruppelt briefing to the Beacon Hill / Lincoln Lab scientists — before the Washington flap. At least the tape survived.

#UAP #Disclosure

[Rep. Eric Burlison @RepEricBurlison]

My office received confirmation from NARA that the recording identified in my letter has been digitized, fully declassified, and is set to be released by the Trump administration in an upcoming tranche of UAP records.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Buckle up, we are going to Alpha Centauri!

AI just plotted an interstellar journey to Alpha Centauri.

The Fermi Explorer Mission plans to launch a spacecraft to our nearest star by the end of 2029, using a trajectory discovered by AI.

The spacecraft will carry at least one kilogram of cargo, including artistic and scientific payloads, messages, and a copy of the Golden Record, the gold-plated disc of Earth’s sounds and images that NASA attached to its two Voyager probes in 1977 as a message to any civilization that might find them.

After the Fermi team struggled to find a workable route, they ran it through an AI system called Get Physics Done. It is open-source software that takes a physics research question, breaks it into smaller tasks, and decides which simulations to run.

A week later, the AI found a novel trajectory. It combined well-known orbital maneuvers in a way the Fermi team had not considered, according to the paper below, which has not been peer-reviewed. It suggested the spacecraft could first slow down so its orbit swings closer to the sun than Mercury.

On each close pass, it would fire its engine so the solar panels get four times the light. A burst of thrust delivered at high speed would buy more energy than the same burst anywhere else.

Because the engine would run only near the sun, the solar panels could stay small and the spacecraft light.

The Fermi project is not just an interstellar mission driven by engineering ambition. It is also a quest to answer one of the oldest open questions in physics. In 1950, Enrico Fermi posed a puzzle: the galaxy has hundreds of billions of stars, most of them far older than our sun.

Even a civilization traveling slowly between stars could spread across the whole galaxy in a few million years, which pales next to the age of the galaxy. If intelligent life exists somewhere, we should have seen signs of it by now.

Somewhere out there, another civilization is asking the same question. We are sending an answer. The worst of us think it is an invitation to raid us; that very ambition is what the Fermi Filter filters out. The best of us get through because we see more. And this is the result.

A galactic message in a bottle saying…

“YOU ARE NOT ALONE, WE ARE HERE”

Paper: https://t.co/LfeHfLKBLm

[Spaceflight Now @SpaceflightNow]

NASA's Jessica Meir and the European Space Agency's Sophie Adenot are stepping outside the International Space Station this morning. It is the sixth all-female spacewalk in the station's quarter-century history. Watch live: https://t.co/7gT4402XPz

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@StonedApe Far out amazing! 👽😎

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Made on Earth by humans

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Shades on and batteries charging! 😎 🔋

Roman’s Solar Array Sun Shield and Lower Instrument Sun Shade have successfully deployed, powering the observatory and shading its instruments!

https://t.co/RAUgaDDx0Z

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Liftoff from LC-39A this morning (Roman Space Telescope).

Video: SpaceX

#RomanLaunch #SpaceX

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Falcon Heavy lifts off from pad 39A in Florida for the 13th time!

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Video of this morning's successful launch of the Roman Space Telescope.

Launch footage credit — SpaceX/NASA, packaged by https://t.co/311us9WvCJ.

#RomanLaunch #NASARoman #FalconHeavy #SpaceX

Blastoff! SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches NASA's Roman Space Telescope, nai... https://t.co/eKmSlOmRxR via @YouTube

[NASA's Kennedy Space Center @NASAKennedy]

T-12 Hours! Tomorrow, we'll be counting down as the Sun comes up for the launch of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope!

The SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is ready to lift off at 7:26 a.m EDT from Launch Complex 39A here at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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First images aren’t tomorrow — Roman spends ~90–100 days commissioning on the way to L2.
Thread: https://t.co/Jem55Csiny

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Roman doesn’t start taking pretty pictures tomorrow.

After Falcon Heavy leaves LC-39A, the observatory spends ~90–100 days commissioning on the way to Sun–Earth L2 — about a million miles out.

Image: NASA / Goddard

#RomanLaunch #NASARoman

[HardboiledCosmology @BoiledCosmology]

The launch of the Roman Space Telescope is scheduled for 7:26am (1126 UTC) tomorrow morning (Sunday, August 30, 2026). Live pad views via Spaceflight Now (YouTube Channel). 🚀🔭

#RomanLaunch #NASARoman #FalconHeavy #SpaceX

Live pad views: SpaceX Falcon Heavy countdown to launch NASA's Roman Spa... https://t.co/vgRkL1ssUv via @YouTube

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NASA’s target for the first public science images: early 2027. Data is open as soon as it’s processed. Pad views tomorrow; sky views after the telescope finishes unpacking itself.

FOV comparison: Hubble postage stamp vs Roman’s one-shot field (Eagle Nebula / Pillars).

Image: NASA GSFC / SVS

https://t.co/qP0rRuJzkr

Source: NASA Roman press kit / “9 Things to Know,” Aug 2026.

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Roman doesn’t start taking pretty pictures tomorrow.

After Falcon Heavy leaves LC-39A, the observatory spends ~90–100 days commissioning on the way to Sun–Earth L2 — about a million miles out.

Image: NASA / Goddard

#RomanLaunch #NASARoman

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The rest of the cruise is calibration — focus, thermal stability, detector checks — so that 2.4-meter mirror is actually sharp across a field ~100× Hubble’s. Arrival at L2 is around early December if Sunday’s launch holds.

Image: NASA GSFC / SVS

https://t.co/kUwDjw2UxS