Chad Bowes

Space, SI, Systems, Flight Test, Photographer

[Chad Bowes @Chadiccus]

Number 11 - Gravity Industries Jet Suit. It's seven small gas turbines spinning at about 120,000 rpm, and you steer it by moving your arms to point the thrust. It runs on jet fuel, diesel or biofuel. Founder Richard Browning holds the Guinness record in it at 85.06 mph.

[Chad Bowes @Chadiccus]

@Teslarati Is the bottleneck people or tooling? Running 24/7 only helps if the lines weren't already the limit.

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@testingcatalog What's actually supposed to be different between Sol and Astra? Size, speed, or a different job entirely?

[Chad Bowes @Chadiccus]

@testingcatalog 3T-class open weights is great, but who can actually run that outside a hyperscaler? What's the active parameter count per token?

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@ritwikpavan Sick but if the surface ain’t smooth you are screwed?

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@JoeTegtmeyer I would genuinely love to see a race with command limits turned off.

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@hermeuscorp Very cool design.

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@aurantiium Buddy, invest in a Google search of current radiators. Then look up Stefan-Boltzmann Law.

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@JonasV68354747 @dimeinurear @MichaelSavaged :/

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@Rainmaker1973 Counterweight taking off 5/6 of body weight? Jumping looks easy, so I'd bet moving sideways is the hard part.

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@ReutersTech A model that can't read exploit code is also worse at spotting it. How do they trim that without hurting defensive use?

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@testingcatalog Is the beta capped by server capacity or by how stable the app is?

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@JonasV68354747 @MichaelSavaged And you will see that 😂

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@IntEngineering Surviving a 400°F hot box, wow. What's the cycle life, and does it hold up at fast-charge rates?

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@SawyerMerritt @bot Does the person on the other end get told up front they're talking to an AI? That decides how businesses react to this.

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@testingcatalog Less re-auth is great until something goes wrong. Who revokes access when a plugin misbehaves: the user, the plugin, or Anthropic?

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@spaceandtech_ Despite the issues, this is wild.

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@refueled I sucked at flying her

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@vasilyaarkhipov Sick

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MiG-29UB cruising at 62,000ft (19km) in the Stratosphere.

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

If you’re under 26, you have never lived a day without someone orbiting above you.

26 years ago today, the first resident crew arrived at the ISS. Humanity has had a home in space ever since.

The research and advances made possible by our crews, teams on the ground and international partners have helped prepare us to live and work on the Moon and Mars.

As we transition to the next era of our presence in low Earth orbit, we build on everything they have made possible.