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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starship is intact, floating in the ocean and transmitting telemetry!

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

"Holy shit guys, it didn't blow up! Quick, grab it!"

[Toby Li @tobyliiiiiiiiii]

Confirmed - SpaceX will attempt to catch the Ship portion of Starship in Flight 14 for the first time, if post data review is green.

Subsequently, 14 will also be Starship’s first orbital launch as a Ship catch requires it.

[ApoStructura @ApoStructura]

I think this is the most sci-fi shot I’ve ever seen. Straight out of The Expanse.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

High-speed video of 33 Raptor engines powering the Super Heavy booster on Flight 13

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Super Heavy has splashed down in the Gulf of America!

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Starship’s ascent burn is complete and is now coasting through space

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Starship is reentering Earth’s atmosphere ahead of splashdown in the Indian Ocean

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship is executing a banking maneuver that mimics the final approach it would take when returning to Starbase for a catch on a future mission

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Splashdown confirmed! Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on the 13th flight test of Starship!

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Starship soared on the second flight of the next generation, deploying advanced Starlink satellites for the first time and providing priceless data as it travelled through air, space, and sea → https://t.co/Rp7VwBzpWx

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Watch Starship's thirteenth flight test https://t.co/qkYYJiX24h

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Eagle and Fox together in Dutch Harbor. They both agree something needs to be done.

[Jesse Michels @AlchemyAmerican]

🚨BREAKING: NASA's Lead Electrostatics Scientist claims he’s discovered a “new force” that counteracts gravity with no fuel necessary. Dr. Charles Buhler has run 2,000 vacuum chamber experiments showing a propellantless thrust force that persists after the power is switched off, and cannot be explained by ion wind, magnetic effects, or classical energy conservation. The input is pure electricity and the output is millinewtons of thrust counteracting gravity. He believes his work vindicates the legacy of midcentury antigravity pioneer Thomas Townsend Brown and will lead to a new paradigm of propellantless deep space travel that transcends chemical combustion rockets🚨

Charles Buhler has a PhD in condensed matter physics from Florida State University, spent over two decades at NASA's Electrostatics and Surface Physics Laboratory at Kennedy Space Center (which he now leads), and is the incoming president of the Electrostatic Society of America. He is NASA’s authority on electrostatics. His colleague Andrew Aurigema, a 35-year veteran engineer working from the Townsend Brown electrogravitics lineage, developed a parallel version of the same experiment independently, and the two discovered each other through a mutual colleague who had been watching both of them work in silence for years. Together, under their company Exodus Propulsion Technologies, they have tested nearly 2,000 variations of what they believe is a previously undocumented force. He’s also developed a quantum electrodynamics based theory to explain his results. Buhler’s patent is now under formal examination by the U.S. Patent Office with affidavit-signing witnesses being contacted independently. This is the future of space travel, beyond chemical combustion. With Rocketry, we can only get to Proxima Centauri B in 80,000 years. And you’d burn through the fuel well before that. It’s completely untenable for interstellar travel.

1. Buhler’s Skeptic Mentor Stopped Cold in 2010

The first demonstration happened in a non-vacuum lab using a laser aimed at a wall to detect small displacements. Buhler had his future brother-in-law run the test. His mentor, Dr. Sid Clements, an electrostatics expert who had dismissed the work entirely, watched the laser move and immediately abandoned what he was doing. He walked over, ran through a series of verification steps on the spot, and never questioned the reality of the effect again. That was 2010. It took two more years working with Drew before Buhler realized the force appeared even without any B field or current present. He wasn't in the field momentum regime at all. He was in pure electrostatics.

2. The Force is Not Explainable by Newton’s Laws or Ion Wind

Ion wind produces thrust in the same direction the ionized air is traveling. The “Exodus force” (Buhler’s name for his new force) produces thrust perpendicular to the expected ion wind direction, reverses cleanly when the device is flipped, and remains present inside a sealed enclosure where no ionized air can escape. Buhler documented this publicly with video: a balsa lifter placed inside a sealed plastic box on a scale, powered up, lifts internally while the scale reads flat. That is conservation of momentum. That is what ion wind looks like. The Exodus force is something different, and Buhler, as the person who leads NASA's only electrostatics lab, is in an unambiguous position to make that distinction.

3. 2,000 Variations, All Producing the Same Result

Since beginning collaboration with Drew, Buhler has tracked nearly 2,000 distinct test articles, each tested multiple times. Pendulums. Spinners. Rotators. Force plates. Scales. Pendulum deflections inside Faraday cages. Reversed polarity tests. Vacuum chamber runs at multiple pressure levels. DC-only configurations that eliminate magnetic field artifacts entirely. Every geometry, every material, every packaging approach. The force appears consistently. When a confounding variable is proposed, they address it, run the modified test, and the force is still there. Buhler says if an exotic explanation remains, it is not one he or any colleague has been able to name.

4. The Device Generates Thrust With the Power Off

This is the finding that breaks the classical framework entirely. After charging the device and disconnecting it from the power supply, the thrust continues. The capacitor does not drain in the way a simple energy storage calculation would predict. Put on a scale, the weight reduction persists. Buhler's description: if placed in space with the power off, the device would accelerate. He cannot explain that to the scientific community and says so directly. David Chester, who has independently interacted with Drew through APEC sessions and private communications, said he cannot think of a prosaic explanation for this. The phenomenon has been reproduced enough times across enough configurations that calling it experimental error is no longer a defensible position.

5. The Implications of This for Past Antigravity Work

Buhler believes his work is derivative of and related to Townsend Brown’s midcentury asymmetric capacitor experiments also showing thrust with pure electricity as the input. Chemical combustion is limited - plain and simple - we can’t get to the nearest habitable planet (Proxima Centauri B) in close the amount of time we’d need; it would take us 80,000 years and we’d burn through the fuel before we got there. It’s a checkmate in one argument against anyone claiming rockets are the frontier of efficiency. This was the dream of Thomas Townsend Brown – one that got stifled and suppressed behind the veil of secrecy and subcompartments. The common trope from experiments around the world are high electric field differentials seem to result in thrust. Buhler’s experiment exists in this lineage.

6. The Patent Office is Running the Peer Review

Buhler made a deliberate choice not to pursue academic peer review as a primary path. His second patent is currently under examination, and the examiner's office has been reaching out to independent witnesses who have signed affidavits confirming they have seen and reproduced the effect. Buhler describes this as equivalent to scientific peer review, run by people with no financial interest in the outcome. His first patent may have been held under a national security review process before release. He does not confirm this, but he was aware it was a risk when he filed.

7. A QED Theorist Could Poke Holes in the Theory, But Not the Experiment

We brought in UCLA PhD David Chester to evaluate Buhler’s ideas on quantum electrodynamics (which might account for the thrust being seen). David Chester's contribution was not to validate the theory Buhler proposed. He found some issues with the specific scalar virtual photon framing Buhler had developed. What Chester could not do was provide a prosaic explanation for the experimental results themselves. He said directly that, of all the anomalous phenomena he has surveyed, Buhler and Drew's work ranks in the top ten for experimental persuasiveness, specifically because of the iteration rate and the self-consistency across configurations. He noted that Drew's innovation rate alone, constantly testing new geometries and material stacks, is unlike anything he has seen from other groups making similar claims. Buhler pointed out that his theories were based on time-independent perturbation theory which Chester admits requires further examination from him.

8. NASA's UAP Investigation Had No Physicists

Buhler and his wife, an engineer in NASA's Launch Services Program, were approached to assist with NASA's second UAP follow-on investigation. When Buhler asked to be placed with the physicists on the project, he was told there were none. The group was instrumentation-focused. Buhler says he was genuinely shocked. His reaction, expressed directly: if you are facing objects that defy the laws of physics, why is there not a single physicist in the room. He described the same reaction Eric Davis has expressed publicly. This is either institutional brain death or something else is happening somewhere else.

9. Six Lights Emerged from the Ocean Near Patrick Air Force Base

Around 2013, Buhler and his wife were alone on the beach near Cocoa Beach, Florida, three miles south of Patrick Air Force Base. A red light appeared roughly three miles offshore, grew extremely bright, then appeared to explode, lighting the full length of beach. A helicopter launched from Patrick Air Force Base, flew to the location, hovered briefly, and returned to base without intervening. The light did not stop. It began moving toward them. At some point it split from one light into six rotating orange-pink lights that went under the water and re-emerged in a repeating cycle. The lights tracked their movement along the beach for forty minutes, closing to within roughly fifty yards before disappearing. Buhler says similar lights have been reported by others in the same area, and Stephen Greer runs group observation sessions approximately forty minutes south of the same beach.

10. The Force Crosses the Unity Threshold for Space Already

The current demonstrated force is in the five to ten millinewton range. For Earth launch, that is not yet sufficient, and Buhler does not claim otherwise. For orbital station-keeping, for preventing satellite orbital decay, for repositioning between orbits in microgravity, the force exceeds what is needed. Buhler calls this hitting unity for space, moon, and Mars applications without any major development beyond what has already been demonstrated. The self-launcher, a device capable of lifting itself from Earth's surface, is the declared goal. No blueprints exist yet for the energy requirements. But the force is real, it is directional, it reverses on command, and it does not require continuous power to sustain.

Why This Matters

NASA's lead electrostatics scientist ran nearly 2,000 controlled experiments, eliminated every prosaic explanation the field has available, documented a thrust that persists after the power is cut, watched the fine structure constant emerge from the data repeatedly, and submitted a second patent currently under formal examination. A QED theorist with no commercial stake in the outcome reviewed the experimental claims and could not find a conventional explanation. The standard debunking line for this entire lineage of experiments has always been ion wind. That argument has been answered, documented, and filmed. What remains is a force that requires either new physics or an error that two decades of systematic testing has not been able to locate. The patent process will resolve part of this. The vacuum chamber footage will resolve more of it. Full conversation is live now. The next stage in human space travel is here.

[Be Believing @Be_Believing]

It took 9 yrs and 3 billion miles to get this shot. It’s Pluto’s icy Mountains.

[Joel Colmenares. @ModReflexion]

🚨 ÚLTIMA HORA: Algunos astrofísicos ahora teorizan que nuestra galaxia, la Vía Láctea, se desplaza en espiral por el espacio a 600 kilómetros por segundo, al mismo tiempo que oscila sobre su eje, como si batiera sus alas como una mariposa a través del cosmos.

[Sajjad Baloch @sjad_bloch]

🚨 صرف 48 گھنٹوں میں عالمی منڈیوں سے 3.2 ٹریلین ڈالر غائب

امریکہ کو سب سے زیادہ نقصان اٹھانا پڑا، جہاں تقریباً 1.7 ٹریلین ڈالر کی کمی ہوئی۔ اس کے بعد جاپان، جنوبی کوریا اور چین کو بھی سینکڑوں ارب ڈالر کا نقصان ہوا۔

بھارت کو تقریباً 240 ارب ڈالر کا خسارہ ہوا۔

متحدہ عرب امارات نے تو اسٹاک مارکیٹ کی ٹریڈنگ ہی عارضی طور پر معطل کر دی ہے اور شہریوں سے اپیل کی ہے کہ خریداری میں احتیاط کریں۔

ایران کے ساتھ جاری تنازع کے صرف چار دنوں میں ہی معاشی اثرات 2008 کے عالمی مالیاتی بحران کے پہلے ہفتے سے زیادہ تیزی سے سامنے آ رہے ہیں۔

تیل کی قیمتیں تیزی سے بڑھ رہی ہیں، سپلائی چین متاثر ہو رہی ہے اور دنیا کے تقریباً تمام بڑے اسٹاک انڈیکس شدید دباؤ میں ہیں۔

یہی اصل جنگ کی قیمت ہوتی ہے۔

صرف میزائل نہیں…
معیشتیں بھی تباہ ہوتی ہیں۔

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starship 10 launching tonight

[Xavi Bros @Xavi_Bros]

Messier 77, also known as NGC 1068 or the Squid Galaxy, is a barred spiral galaxy, one of the brightest Seyfert galaxy, situated 47 million light-years far.
This image combines different types of light captured by NASA's Chandra, @NASAHubble, @NASAWebb, and @TheNRAO.
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