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“Only we are Earthseed. And the destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars.” —Octavia Butler
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[Robotbeat🗽 ➐ @Robotbeat]

Maybe space resources can help Earth survive. But, like the Polynesians who settled the Pacific, that's really not the primary reason humanity wishes to explore & settle this new ocean, the depths of space. (Quote below is from Christina Thompson's excellent book Sea People.)

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"...Occasionally, there is famine or some other type of trouble, but usually it is a matter of chiefly ambition or pride." (Important. I've often been told the reason Polynesians explored & settled the Pacific is a desperate need for resources. Polynesians' own stories disagree.)

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@KenKirtland17 @phalanx This is brainworm pattern of thinking, where you immediately reach for The Jews as why something bad happens. It used to be MAGA that did this with the border.

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@mattparlmer Vaguetweet

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

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@KenKirtland17 @phalanx “AIPAC connection”? Buddy, this is certified brainworms!

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

People need to understand that "M4A" is unaffordable by design. The purpose of the idea is for leftists to be able to say the Establishment Dems are letting you down and denying you healthcare.

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Gotta hand it to the commie... you have to actually show up to vote.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

BREAKING: Thomas Massie’s resolution to impeach Pete Hegseth fails in the House 211-204, after 11 Democrats failed to show up for the vote.

If those 11 Democrats had showed up, Hegseth would have been impeached 215-211.

[Robotbeat🗽 ➐ @Robotbeat]

BTW, you can't actually have a democracy if there's never a single moment of compromising with your political opponents.

[CanCanGirl&TobyBear🐱🐱🌈💔💔 @ApricotForever]

ICYMI. If you get Schumer as majority leader, you get Trump. The two are tight.

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@freddo411 Disagree. We just need to get a lot better at making suits.

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My most toxic spaceflight opinion is we should be doing MORE EVAs, not fewer. Get exponentially better at addressing the risks of EVAs, and then do lots of them all the time.

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

This was the best question of the press event, and beyond the advice to follow your passion because it may very well lead you to the Moon, I think Dayna Ise gave a great answer on a specific discipline with robotics. We want astronauts living at the Moon Base, but also want to keep the EVAs to a minimum!

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@HopDavid41 I'm convinced that every time you do that, you're probably damaging your brain a little bit.

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Kinda think Elon tries to radically alter his neurochemistry & personality every few years to keep from getting "stuck." Like, he takes a cocktail of valproic acid, DMT, ketamine, then decides to like become MAGA or, later, cancel Cybertruck & embrace AI takeover or whatever.

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@RoryTheSpaceGuy Same for Blue Origin HLS FWIW

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@RoryTheSpaceGuy I mean... yeah, it's pretty reasonable. But pretty great to get median aerospace schedule slip but still like a fifth the tradspace cost.

[Abyssal Argonaut @divinetrickr]

“Live in the pod but different”

[Eric Berger @SciGuySpace]

Rocket Lab does a lot of the little things right. This is fantastic livery for a company that, to date, is really only the world's second purely commercial launch business to make a successful go it. We are all celebrating with them.

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@JB47394 Like a pig in a cage on antibiotics

[billy @billyhumblebrag]

reading the METR report on RSI and then going to the ribbon cutting ceremony for the new on site recycling bins for my apartment block

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

I am sharing this chart partially because it shows just how impressive the size of the Chinese manufacturing sector is but also because of the nice design choice.

[Geoffrey Lean @GeoffreyLean]

Solar power is booming in Africa. Imports of solar panels into most of the continent have almost tripled in the last two years, while Morroco has recently doubled its manufacture of them. The result is to greatly increase electric power capacity.

https://t.co/KphP29izlS

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Solar power is great for the Global South.

[Richard Nixon Foundation @nixonfoundation]

“Good God we’ve got people in the Congress over 70. That’s too old. You ought to be out of there by 70.”

-Richard Nixon