Damon Smith

Architect bringing humanuty to the stars.

[Wasson Watch Co. @WassonWatch]

Problems with our society in a nutshell.

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

How does C. S. Lewis do that, every paragraph is a book

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

You might not have heard of Starfall.

Certainly there's more enthusiasm for arguing about AI data centers in space.

But this is more important.

This is the real game. The real game that starts when billionaires read Robert Heinlein, instead of the sports page.

It starts with asteroid mining.

Remember that all earthly mines for heavy elements are just ancient asteroid strikes. When you mine asteroids in space, you go from mining the tiny percentage that once hit Earth, to mining all of them.

The next step is space manufacturing.

If all the raw materials are in space, space is where you want to use them, because they are there already, and if you are close to the sun, power is free. No recurring costs.

The next step is space industrialization.

Most of the things humanity makes are things we make so we can make other things. If we can make those things in space, there's no reason to bring them to Earth. Just use them to make other things right where they are.

This means that your entire industrial infrastructure and toolchain lives outside the gravity well.

The last step is ruralization and suburbification of Earth.

Once heavy industry is cheaper in space, Earth can be reserved for what it is actually best at, which is growing things, and being a nice place to live.

With the entire toolchain in space, only the end results of that toolchain, the consumer products themselves, have to make it down from space. Everything else will only be needed on Earth in token amounts... enough to fix your truck, but not enough to run a uranium mine.

What this means is less pollution, cheaper land, cheaper food, cheaper consumer goods, cheaper everything and a higher standard of living for everyone.

Because you have all sorts of new ways to Have Nice Things.

You just need to get the Nice Things from space, where you built them, to Earth, where people want to enjoy them.

And you need a cheap way to do this at scale.

"Asteroid" means "like a star". That's that the Greeks thought they were, and they weren't entirely wrong. Because every atom of asteroid metal was forged in a supernova. That's what spacefaring species make their civilizations out of.

Fragments of ancient stars.

Brought to Earth.

Starfall.

[Abandon Comfort @abandoncomfortx]

Reject Modernity Embrace Tradition

[Young Americans for Liberty @YALiberty]

*Correction: The U.S. government stole 30% of your purchasing power through printed money and inflation.

[Straight Florida @StraightFlorida]

Why live in a state with four seasons when you can live in Florida and just choose between "Summer" and "Summer with Christmas lights"?

[Huff @Huff4Congress]

“Some athletic, thin women also have a naturally large bust, and it���s okay to allow this body type in video games.”

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Upcoming releases of FSD will remember your parking preferences, so that the car goes to the right location at your home, office, school drop off, etc.

Destination parking is by far the biggest reason people now intervene with FSD. Critical safety interventions are extremely rare.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Almost a million people have clicked through the link to read our rape gang inquiry report in full.

Remarkable.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Essentially what has happened is that the decaying political establishment has imported millions of migrants from alien cultures that are entirely incompatible with the British way of life.

Those migrants have colonised large parts of our country, and live their lives how they choose to do so because our authorities are too frightened of being called racist to challenge them.

That has meant attitudes have flourished and spread which, in short, treat women and non-Muslims like shit.

And yes, I do mean that.

Conservative, Labour and Reform politicians are all directly responsible for this vast importation. Personally, I will never forgive anyone responsible.

Vulnerable working class white girls were treated like a piece of meat. Raped, abused, tortured, murdered. It was a racial attack, and it was a coordinated attack. All across Britain.

They targeted these girls because they were vulnerable, they were young, they were white.

Until the political class accepts that fact, nothing will EVER change.

These men do not live by the same rules as us - it is all beyond evil. And this is a coordinated network of organised crime right across the country. It is not random groups of scumbags doing this. It is a network. Organised. Ruthless. Efficient. It is an industry.

This is not homegrown. We imported it. We welcomed it. Embraced it. We continue to do so.

That was a choice.

Reversing it is also a choice. One we will make.

A Restore Britain Government will remove millions of foreign nationals who hate our way of life and have no reason to be in our country. Gone, and never allowed back.

With the British people’s approval, we will reintroduce the death penalty.

If a Pakistani man has been gang-raping a young English girl? Torturing her? Passing her around his brothers to also be raped?

We will put him to death. And I look forward to that. I really do.

Our report has outlined exact recommendations on what needs to be done to eradicate this cancer.

A Restore Britain Government will deliver it.

We will use the full force of the British state to crack down on these rapists and their enablers in the most brutal fashion imaginable. It will be swift and ruthless. It will be done, finally.

And I include their enablers in that.

That is why Farage tried to put me in prison. Because I wanted to deport complicit foreign family members. He found that so very extreme - admitting it on national television. Simply remarkable.

Hearing the evidence and testimonies provided to our inquiry, I can assure you that I am holding a moderate position.

I want the scumbags gone. Deported. Never allowed back.

For the very worst among them, I want them permanently removed.

Restore Britain will get called extreme, racist, islamophobic and whatever else by the Guardian, Farage, Nadine Dorries, the BBC, the Daily Mail, Zack Polanski.

I do not give a shit.

I am just grateful that there is finally a political party with the courage to do what needs to be done.

We are going to get our country back.

We are going to Restore Britain.

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

Someone asked me what my long term plan is and I just said

You know, I think we're going to need a breakaway space faring civilization

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The scale of what is to come has no precedent

[Damon Smith @DamonSmithNow]

The gift of thought and chose is the most valuable we can give and should be shared with the universe at massive scale.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Make our Sun sentient to understand the Universe and extend the light of consciousness to the stars

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

SpaceX a clôturé son premier jour de cotation à 2 100 milliards de dollars, +19%. Tout le monde regarde le chiffre. Personne ne regarde ce qu'il price réellement.

Laissez-moi vous dire ce que le marché vient d'acheter, et pourquoi je pense que cette boîte vaudra 30 à 50 trillions d'ici 5 ans.

D'abord, le symbole. Cette IPO est un référendum. D'un côté, 20 ans de discours sur la décroissance, la sobriété, la redistribution, la fin de l'histoire gérée par des comités. De l'autre, un homme qui a dit "je vais rendre l'humanité multiplanétaire", que tout le monde a traité de clown, et qui vient de créer la plus grosse entreprise cotée de l'histoire en partant d'un entrepôt à El Segundo. Le marché a voté. Le wokisme avait des départements RH, SpaceX avait des fusées. Les fusées ont gagné.

Ensuite, la mécanique économique, parce que c'est là que tout le monde se trompe. Les analystes valorisent SpaceX comme une entreprise de lancement plus Starlink. C'est comme valoriser Internet en 1995 sur le marché du fax. Starship ne réduit pas le coût du kilo en orbite de 20%, il le divise par 100. Et chaque fois dans l'histoire qu'un coût d'infrastructure est divisé par 100, ce n'est pas le marché existant qui grossit, ce sont des industries entières qui naissent. Le coût du calcul divisé par 100 a donné Internet, le smartphone, l'IA. Le coût de l'orbite divisé par 100 va donner une économie spatiale complète.

Faisons la liste de ce qui devient rentable quand le kilo en orbite coûte le prix d'un billet d'avion. Les data centers orbitaux, avec énergie solaire continue et refroidissement gratuit, au moment exact où l'IA fait exploser la demande énergétique terrestre. La fabrication en microgravité de semi-conducteurs, de fibres optiques, d'organes imprimés impossibles à produire sous gravité. Le tourisme orbital de masse, puis les hôtels lunaires, qui passeront du fantasme au business plan exactement comme la croisière de luxe au 20ème siècle. Le transport point à point terrestre, Paris-Tokyo en 40 minutes. L'industrie minière des astéroïdes, dont un seul corps de classe M contient plus de métaux que tout ce que l'humanité a extrait depuis le néolithique. Et Mars en ligne de mire, pas comme destination touristique, mais comme le plus grand projet d'infrastructure jamais entrepris, avec tout ce que ça implique de demande en énergie, matériaux, robotique, IA.

SpaceX ne participera pas à ces marchés. SpaceX possède le péage d'entrée de tous ces marchés. C'est AWS, mais pour la civilisation. Apple vaut 3 500 milliards en vendant des rectangles de verre sur une seule planète. Le premier monopole d'accès à une frontière infinie à 30 ou 50 trillions dans 5 ans, ce n'est pas de l'exubérance, c'est une simple règle de trois sur l'expansion du marché adressable.

Et maintenant, la partie que je préfère. Ce futur n'a pas besoin de bureaucrates. Il n'y a pas de comité consultatif en orbite. Pas de commission Théodule sur Mars. Chaque dollar de cette nouvelle économie sera créé par des ingénieurs, des techniciens, des soudeurs, des pilotes, des entrepreneurs. Les diplômés en gestion de la norme vont devoir apprendre un métier utile, et franchement, c'est une excellente nouvelle pour eux aussi : construire est infiniment plus fun que contrôler.

Parce que c'est ça, le vrai signal d'aujourd'hui. Pendant 50 ans on nous a vendu un futur rétréci : moins d'énergie, moins d'enfants, moins d'ambition, gérer le déclin proprement. Et là, d'un coup, le plus gros actif financier du monde est un pari sur l'abondance, l'expansion et l'aventure. Le pessimisme vient de passer en position vendeuse sur lui-même.

Le futur sera méga fun. Il y aura des hôtels avec vue sur la Terre, des honeymoons en orbite, des gamins qui diront "papa, c'était comment avant les fusées réutilisables" comme on dit "c'était comment avant Internet". Et quelque part dans les années 2030, un humain marchera sur Mars en livestream devant 5 milliards de personnes, et ce jour-là plus personne ne se souviendra du nom d'un seul de ses détracteurs.

Achetez de l'optimisme. C'est encore sous-valorisé.

[Damon Smith @DamonSmithNow]

@elonmusk Launching and catching Starships out of the center of a dormant volcano is not optional.