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[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

This is what will matter 1000 years from now.

Not your politics. Not your stupid tantrums about who platformed who on some website. Not your incomprehensible desire to send NASA's entire budget to the third world.

This guy reignited the Space Age.

He spent his own money, hired a bunch of dudes, and reignited the Space Age. And together, they underbid and outdid NASA and its pet dinosaur corporations on every conceivable level.

This is history happening before you.

If you are a puddlefish, if you think this is a wasteful showpiece or science project, then you don't understand physics, economics, astronomy, or in fact the basic layout of the universe you live in.

We live in a tiny puddle at the bottom of a well.

Out there is an entire universe, full not only of stuff to explore, but full of stuff to build things out of.

Big things. Wonderful things. Things that are going to make all of the cool stuff you have today, all of human civilization to date look like early Assyrians writing stuff down on wet clay with a reed.

Infinite resources. Infinite energy. Infinite space.

Instead of fighting over little patches of land, we will have an infinite 3d volume. Enclose it in steel, pump it full of air, spin it, and it's a habitat.

Instead of scratching tiny scraps of metal out of the crust of one planet, we will break down entire asteroids and smelt them.

Instead of drilling for hydrocarbons and turning water wheels, we will harness entire suns, split the atom, and eventually draw our fuel from the substance that makes up 99% of the entire universe.

None of your local, temporal Earth politics matter compared to this. This is more important than pride parades and abortions, more important than tribal conflicts in eastern Europe and southwest Asia, more important than tensions with Russia and China.

More important, in the long run, than the United States of America.

America's most important function, its one most vital purpose, is to serve as an incubator for this.

Because this changes everything.

All of our arguments about conditions on this planet become obsolete, because the whole planet becomes just one suburban neighborhood.

All of our wars over resources and territory become obsolete, because no one has time to brawl when we're all sitting on top of a dragon horde with sacks and shovels.

Everyone who was alive at the time remembers where they were when Kennedy died in Dallas. When the towers fell. When the Eagle landed. When the Wall came down.

But this... this is the real moment, one of the first of many. They are what every child will know about a thousand years from now, even if they have four arms and are genetically engineered for zero-g, or are sentient blocks of code running on a sphere of computronium enclosing an entire star.

You may not live to see that, depending on what we do or don't invent, and when.

But it will happen, and you will live to see wonderful things.

If the puddlefish don't get in the way.

Don't be a puddlefish.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The tower has caught the rocket!!

[. @H_Charles_]

🤍.

[Real Madrid C.F. @realmadrid]

REAL MADRID
ETERNA PASIÓN POR EL FÚTBOL.

[ᐱ ᑎ ᑐ ᒋ ᕮ ᒍ @Andr3jH]

“Gang gang.”
“Yes yes yes”
“Mm ice cream so good”
“Mm ice cream so good”
“Yes yes yes”
“Yes yes yes”
“Mm ice cream so good”
“Slaaay hahaha”
“Thank you lopez”
“Gang gang”
“Yes yes yes”
“Mm ice cream so good”

[Real Madrid C.F. @realmadrid]

Comunicado Oficial: Bellingham
#RealMadrid | #HeyJude

[6529 @punk6529]

1/ On How Short Life Is

A few years ago, I was walking around in a blizzard in SoHo (New York). It was late, midnight, and it was beautiful.

Some friends, about 15 blocks away, called: "come over?"

It was late, it was cold, was tired, thought "maybe not worth it" but then...

[TC @totalcristiano]

You don’t need to understand Real Madrid, just watch and enjoy it.

[TOMMY @_tommyyy__]

Creative director of PLT

[Madrid Zone @theMadridZone]

Florentino Pérez has finished his speech. The Socios are now giving him a standing ovation. #rmalive

[Madrid Zone @theMadridZone]

🎙| Florentino Pérez: "It's time to remind UEFA who Real Madrid is. Real Madrid created FIFA along with 7 federations, then created the Champions League in 1955 along with L'Equipe. UEFA is a monopoly." #rmalive

[Carpe Donktum🔹 @CarpeDonktum]

@EdLatimore They feel so attached because they literally are, people anchor their reality to their opinions and beliefs. Admitting that you based your reality on something false could unravel everything.

It is much easier for the mind to do mental gymnastics than it is to rewrite reality