Compare China's and Europe's response to SpaceX, circa 2015:
Europe: Landing and reusing rockets is a dream that people need to wake up from. And even if it works, it will never be profitable.
China: Wow, look what the Americans are doing. Scrap all our rocket designs and let's redesign them all for reuse by 2035.
Europe's lack of imagination may have set the continent back in space for 1-2 generations. We are only just beginning to witness the downstream ramifications of rejecting reusability a decade ago.
$SNOW Snowflake just flipped the AI narrative.
Investors feared agents would route around the data layer. Instead, usage is rising.
❄️ Product revenue accelerated to +34% Y/Y
🤖 AI products are gaining adoption
☁️ AWS deal supports the margin story
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Silver Swan Automaton… no motors, built in 1773 and still working perfectly.
The Silver Swan is powered entirely by mainsprings and brass clockwork gears.
Why did we stop creating such elegant engineering and beautiful pieces of art… timeless and built to last?
A motorhome from 1941 that looks like it drove out of the future.
This rare Western Flyer RV is usually linked to industrial designer Brooks Stevens, the same creative mind associated with the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile.
With its rounded Art Deco lines, streamlined body, and almost spaceship-like front, it shows how boldly designers were imagining road travel long before modern RV culture took over.
Only a few are believed to have been built — which makes this surviving example even more unusual.