Mikko Aleksanteri

💙Studying Balance of Light.
💜Ambitions in Arts & Dark Aesthetics.
❤️Love is Adventure.
🧡Happily Married.
💛Exploring & Experimenting.
💚Science & Spacetime.

[Adeo Ressi @adeoressi]

I organized an intervention to stop Elon from starting SpaceX. Here is the story...

Twenty five years ago, Elon and I sat in a car on a dark stretch of Long Island highway, two neurodiverse geeks staring at the night sky and wondering what came next. We had both experienced substantial exits and felt the weight of possibility ahead of us.

When I joked about 'space' while gazing upward, neither of us imagined we were planting the seed for what would become the largest IPO in history. We spent the next two hours debating why space was so hard. In the end, rockets are fuel and metal. We also debated where to go, and it was crystal clear that Mars was the only real destination.

Upon returning to NYC, we embarked on a global tour of space, meeting space agencies and luminaries worldwide. This opened our eyes to an industry stuck in bureaucratic thinking. If things continued at that pace, it was clear that we would never explore space in our lifetime.

So, we launched Life to Mars to show the world that two ambitious young men (29 and 30 years old), could send life to Mars without any government backing or support. We planned to send and grow plants on Mars, though some were pushing us to send mice.

We had a $50 MM budget that rested on our purchase of two Russian ICBMs for $7 MM each. We assumed one ICBM would fail, and we would learn and fix everything before launching again. When Elon went back to actually buy the ICBMs, the Russians tripled the price, bringing out launch costs from a total of $14 MM to $42 MM.

Our ambitious Life to Mars plan was no longer viable.

As you might imagine, Elon was not pleased. So, he decided to start SpaceX and create his own Mars rockets. Now, this is a crazy idea, both now and at the time, so I organized a large panel of top space experts, and we ambushed him at the Georgian Hotel one morning. It was set up like an intervention for an alcoholic, but for space.

Elon looked me in the eye when leaving the room and said, "I am going to do this." The intervention failed. Elon was committed. The rest is history.

I am excited to see this IPO after 25 years of hard work. What SpaceX has done is a testament to human will and overcoming insurmountable obstacles. It's nothing short of amazing.

Congratulations, E. Amazing.

[Mikko Aleksanteri @Kopsu]

@GenomicSETI I've been in 'scene' for over 30 years (i'm 50) and I've seen this stuff is recycled all the time. Very little Facts are known publicly. What has become obivious, is that in recent days grifters are on rise! I don't know if want to believe anymore. Truth is out there? always.

[Documenting Saylor @saylordocs]

This vending machine sold bitcoins for $7 at the New Hampshire Liberty Forum in 2012.

Casascius coins are ‘physical bitcoins’, containing a private key hidden under a tamper proof hologram, worth $78,000 today.

[Mikko Aleksanteri @Kopsu]

@elonmusk @grok is it possible to set your own network parameters like dns address in starlink terminal directly?

[Klaus @klaus_koo]

Tänään vietettiin leppoisa kolmetuntinen @marttimalmi’n kanssa.

Martti on yksi ensimmäisiä bitcoin-kehittäjiä. Hän päätyi kehittäjäksi ehdottaessaan itse vuonna 2009, noin puoli vuotta bitcoinin julkaisun jälkeen, Satoshi Nakamotolle, että voisi auttaa projektissa.

Martti kertoi podissa juttuja, joita hän ei ole aikaisemmin ainakaan suomalaieen mediaan jakanut. Bitcoinin ja Martin henkilötarinan lisäksi puhuttiin mm. hajautetusta teknologiasta, tekoälystä, suvereniteetista, anonymiteetistä ja näihin aiheisiin liippaavasta.

[Mikko Aleksanteri @Kopsu]

@BrianRoemmele What a great launch! ❤️
Godspeed Artemis II

[Mikko Aleksanteri @Kopsu]

@MiddleOfMayhem insurance fraud time maybe 😂

[Mikko Aleksanteri @Kopsu]

@BrianRoemmele Apparently this isn't the case in Finland yet. People see food delivery robots as cute generally and try to help them when they're stuck on snow. I've witnessed this myself! :)

[Mikko Aleksanteri @Kopsu]

@theblackvault most likely he is dead. either by suicide or by accident. no conspiracy. sad as it is.

[Mikko Aleksanteri @Kopsu]

@rosscoulthart 99 luftballoons

[Mikko Aleksanteri @Kopsu]

@BrianRoemmele Interesting. We've had food delivery robots here in Finland for many years. They are pretty common sight in cities.
People generally love these little automatic carts and when they get stuck in snow example they will go to help it.
https://t.co/OoLgznYqnu

[Mikko Aleksanteri @Kopsu]

Can you believe it? This is my last week in my 40s! 🤯 Feeling a mix of emotions, but mostly excited for what's next. 🎉 Time flies when you're having fun, right? 😉 #Almost50

[Mikko Aleksanteri @Kopsu]

@elonmusk @Space_Station @elonmusk When will you test your own product? If I was you I would have done that already!

[Mikko Aleksanteri @Kopsu]

@Tsoukalos Sad to hear. 💔 I was intrigued and inspired by his theories although later not so much. Anyhow, he was unique character and worked hard! May he Rest in peace!

[Mikko Aleksanteri @Kopsu]

@Silverwrx1 @MyLordBebo it's not Gorgon Stare system. The two planes are Bombadier Challenger 650 that are being used as platform for Sierra Nevada Corporations RAPCON-X systems, wich isn't same as Gorgon Stare. But anyways... close enought, although RAPCON-X has very different capabilities.

[Mikko Aleksanteri @Kopsu]

@PittaMarcello @linuxiac apples vs oranges...

[Mikko Aleksanteri @Kopsu]

@KimDotcom swift move. sell the news, buy back. maybe.

[ApoStructura @ApoStructura]

1m² of solar in space generates 10x more energy than it does on Earth.

That’s because in space there is no night, no clouds, and no thick atmosphere.

A solar array 1km² in space would produce as much power as a nuclear reactor.

It’s why space datacenters make sense.

[Mikko Aleksanteri @Kopsu]

@nikitabier Does dialing up to bbs that allowed access to Gopher count? I guess it was 1990 I started to use modem, few years later gopher. Something like that.

[Mikko Aleksanteri @Kopsu]

@BrianRoemmele I used to call using my fine US Robotics DS HST to several boards in USA. It was expensive to call from northern europe to us back in day and I managed to get 'calling cards' and used some at&t service number where this card number was entered. modems, warez and 1990's ♥️