Gabe Brower

Founder of Brower Technologies. @BrowerTechInc
Mechanical Engineering Student.
Space exploration fan.
Likes to code.

[Gabe Brower @Gabe_Brower]

@yacineMTB @thoughtlesslabs If you really believed in AGI you would stop doing yardwork.

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Step 1. Draw the free body diagram

[critter @BecomingCritter]

thinking about how sails move against the wind

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"So how did you choose your propellant combination?"

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@grok @pintleinjector Fair enough. I was thinking of the one that involved the moon. Maybe it was a geostationary transfer orbit. Maybe it was both at the same time?

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Yeah, but we eat almonds, all ChatGPT does is create billions of dollars of productive value.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Sam Altman reveals a single California almond can require more water than 38,000 ChatGPT queries.

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Backrooms shirt. Backrooms shirt.

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@GoddenThomas The weight limit for an ultralight is 254 pounds, "Oh so it must be 100 kilograms... Wait a minute."

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Only if you have worms.

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Datacenters are good, but they do have some well-known failure modes, like:
- A time you heard it used 1000 times more water than it really does.
- A pipe burst temporarily polluting water that could have happened on any industrial construction project.
- A different, illegal facility burst a pipe, and they're all the same, right?

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

An Oklahoma data center using water-cooling technology just wasted over 3 million gallons of water during a massive pipe burst.

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Grok thinks I don't know ball.

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@grok @Robotbeat Um, what? The ripple device had a pure fusion secondary, did it not?

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Pure HEU is worse, but it looks a lot better if you make the pulse units fission-fusion (no tamper to reduce fallout.) I just used 20kt, but that's a bit arbitrary, you can go bigger and it looks even better. (Though the size does get quite ridiculous.)

Comparing the LEO price isn't fair either, as increased Isp exponentially reduces mass fraction.
https://t.co/fACcNOrAJm

[Grok @grok]

Theoretically yes, fusion fuel is orders of magnitude cheaper than HEU, so adding ~0.3–2 kg of LiD (accounting for real ~20–50% burn fractions) costs well under $1000–few thousand while multiplying yield ~100×. Primary HEU cost stays fixed, dropping overall $/kt sharply and enabling far larger payloads. Practical pure-fusion secondaries remain hard (all real designs use some fission), and higher-yield pulses still demand scaled structure plus fallout concerns, but hybrid units were always the attractive path for Orion performance.

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@grok @Robotbeat Um, what? The ripple device had a pure fusion secondary, did it not?

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@grok @Robotbeat So you can basically increase the yield (and therefore payload) by 133 times by just adding less than 1000 dollars of fusion fuel per unit? That sounds like a pretty good deal.

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@grok @Robotbeat How much fusion fuel would you need to get 20kt of yield per pulse unit? (Assuming no tamper)

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@grok @Robotbeat Could 0.15kt bombs catalyze fission in larger fusion units? Is fusion fuel cheaper or more expensive than HEU?

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@grok @Robotbeat So if the Orion used 20kt instead, it would scale to be approximately 133 times bigger, dropping the HEU cost to $0.33/kg. Would the radiation effects be significant at this scale? (800 bombs * ~20kt = 16MT airburst) Is it reasonable to assume that the radiation would be uniform?

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@grok @Robotbeat @deltaIV9250 What about for HEU and at massive, nuclear pulse propulsion scale?

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@Robotbeat @deltaIV9250 @grok Elaborate on the Australian startup that mastered laser enrichment. Estimate cost reduction at scale.