No one has ever developed a fully reusable orbital heat shield
When you return from orbital velocity, you come in like a flaming meteor. You are a raging ball of fire. It is incredibly difficult to build a heat shield that doesn’t melt, shatter, or get destroyed in the process
SpaceX is changing that. They have developed the most advanced ceramic heat tiles in history. Unlike the Space Shuttle, which required months of meticulous inspections and tile replacements after every flight, Starship's heat shield is built for rapid, reliable reuse
This is the holy grail of engineering
🇺🇸 TRUMP WANTS 10 REACTORS, WESTINGHOUSE JUST SAID LET’S DO IT
Trump wants a nuclear comeback.
Westinghouse just promised 10 new reactors.
The first shovels hit dirt before 2030.
Each reactor powers three-quarters of a million homes.
That’s a lot of juice.
They pitched it straight to Trump in Pittsburgh.
The plan comes with $75 billion in economic punch and a fresh deal with Google to speed up construction using AI.
Last time, their project nearly bankrupted them.
This time, they’re betting smarter tools will keep it on rails.
Nuclear’s not dead. It’s just getting rewired.
Source: CNBC
Just a few days ago it was Britain, and now today, France once again proves it can’t even protect its own citizens...yet somehow still feels entitled to meddle in Gaza. Fix your own house before playing global savior. Antisemitic and Islamist rioters used the chaos to attack synagogues and even a Holocaust memorial in Paris.
Once again, I repeat: don’t throw stones when your house is made of glass. I fully support a two-state solution in France, just as Macron keeps preaching to everyone else. France wants to play therapist to the Middle East while refusing therapy at home. You can’t lecture the world about splitting in the name of peace while duct-taping your own national cracks.
And no, you can’t reward Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood’s terrorist arm, with any state or status.
Put your referendums where your rhetoric is, Monsieur Macron.
Let the Bretons in the northwest finally have their Celtic parliament and stop pretending that baguettes cure colonial trauma.
Let the Basques in the southwest fly their flag without being labeled separatist hipsters.
Let Alsace in the east speak Alsatian without some Parisian bureaucrat choking on a croissant over “national unity.”
Sounds fair, right? Since France loves waving the flag of “self-determination,” “indigenous identity,” and “freedom of expression” like it’s a national sport, why not try a little of that at home?
No tunnels. No rockets. No ceasefire drama. Just ballots, voting booths, and boom, a two- or three-state France, faster than you can say “Liberté, Égalité, Hypocrisie.”
Free free Bretons, Basques, and Alsace, from the river to the sea.
No missiles. Just ballots.
No ceasefire needed, just some honesty and courage.