Ethan Prober

Building dragons. Opinions and bad takes are my own.

[Ethan Prober @EthanProber]

Your order has arrived! @Space_Station :)

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Docking confirmed – Dragon has arrived at the @Space_Station!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@Truthful_ast Wait until you see what’s coming

[Ethan Prober @EthanProber]

@chamath Idk why I always figured chamath would be the shortest

[Ethan Prober @EthanProber]

@ThePrimalDino LFG

[Ethan Prober @EthanProber]

@ThePrimalDino This calls back to propulsive landing where one company was technically first but in the long run the winner by any metric was the one that developed a manufacturing/iteration pipeline that enabled execution at scale.

Maybe the tortoise/hare roles are reversed in that race?

[Ethan Prober @EthanProber]

@DJSnM @elonmusk @aaronburnett

[Ethan Prober @EthanProber]

@DJSnM @elonmusk @aaronburnett Interesting concept.. imagining a hollow cylinder sitting in orbit similar to the space guild tubes from Dune where an object at escape velocity is captured into orbit via electromagnetic deceleration

[Ethan Prober @EthanProber]

@DJSnM @elonmusk @aaronburnett The transferred momentum would have to be dissipated via drag if over a planet with atmosphere, or by shooting objects out the other end. Maybe decelerations are free orbit raises!

[Ethan Prober @EthanProber]

@BrendanCarrFCC @davesgoldman Never retire

[Ethan Prober @EthanProber]

@Polymarket @PolymarketIntel Look they’re selling dollars for 74 cents

[Ethan Prober @EthanProber]

This is the answer, what is the question

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@KobeissiLetter Space

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@KobeissiLetter Space

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

What an incredible company

The @SpaceX team is cracked

[Ethan Prober @EthanProber]

This is leadership

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

I love the history of NASA as much as anyone, and I hate to see infrastructure that has been part of the skyline come down. I know many people previously worked in these buildings and have a real attachment to them. If there is a way to honor that history by collecting materials and using them for plaques or memorabilia, we should look into it.

That stated, we are carrying an enormous amount of dated infrastructure from decades ago. Much of it is in terrible condition. I walked through precision labs at GSFC yesterday with leaky roofs, and that is happening because dollars are still going toward trying to maintain infrastructure that has no demand, is falling apart, and in many cases is unsafe.

Our mission today is just as important as it was back then. But if we fund the past indefinitely, we will have very little left to invest in the mission of today. Clearing out old infrastructure, and anywhere else resources are not being efficiently allocated, is how we put more astronauts in space, build new space stations, and increase the rate of world-changing scientific discovery.

[Ethan Prober @EthanProber]

105 on the 105 at 1:05 back to the 90245

Is this too much to ask for??

[International Space Station @Space_Station]

.@SpaceX’s Dragon cargo spacecraft fired its thrusters for over 19 minutes on Dec. 29, boosting the station’s orbit. This marks the fifth reboost of the station during the CRS-33 mission, with one more planned before Dragon returns to Earth in January. https://t.co/BP7nHMlSuH

[Ethan Prober @EthanProber]

@Jack_Frodo You forgot the extra S that every congressperson adds to his last name

[Ethan Prober @EthanProber]

@heinenbros I wonder if they know it’s pronounced Pie-Bock

[Ethan Prober @EthanProber]

@spacekoala I don’t get why people think the two outcomes are mutually exclusive