As a kid at a field trip to a nearby community center, I saw Buddhist monks making a sand mandala. The teacher explained they'd be destroying it as soon as they finished, to signify that all things are impermanent. I thought that was so stupid. I hated them, it made me so angry
as a child i read brian jacques redwall series in its entirety and i would have vivid hallucinations that looked like this as i drifted off into day dreams while my social studies teacher droned on about womens suffrage
If I had Musk's trillion, I'd actually spend it on something useful, like developing reusable rockets to make space travel cheap instead of just hoarding it all.
NASA just announced they are investigating HLS pushing Orion from LEO to the moon.
This profile unintuitively saves HLS >400t of fuel and means Orion only has to be launched to LEO.
Here's an app I made that you can see for yourself:
https://t.co/RBhener6QQ
@Robotbeat Kardashev 2 civ, I'm orbiting as close to the sun as possible to have the highest probability of being closest in terms of light seconds to any market event anywhere in the solar system
Ezra Klein's honing in on "Vibecession" & "da attention economy" is probably stemming from an internal frustration on the public being 20% harder to herd now as comapred to earlier information ecosystems
It took <100 years for American settlers to destroy fully 99% of this unique landscape and the thousands of species of plants and animals that called it home