Just finished reading @SciGuySpace ‘Liftoff’. Falcon’s development story is astounding and gritty and inspiring.
@SpaceX make this look routine, and it is, even though it’s not.
The Falcon program has delivered more tonnage to orbit than the entire rest of the world combined
Merlin is the most successful rocket engine of all time to date.
Starship will eventually surpass it, but worth noting how cool Falcon is.
David Friedberg: It's not rich vs poor, it's makers vs takers.
@friedberg:
“ The great lie is that there are two sides to society, that is the rich and the poor.
And the great truth is that there are two sides that are the makers and the takers.
The lie is that the rich are unfairly rich and the poor are unfairly poor, and therefore, the poor must take from the rich.
But the truth is that it's the takers that tell you that lie, that the real truth is that artists, plumbers, electricians, woodworkers, computer scientists, people that build, people that make from all walks of life, all income levels, all wealth brackets, are the makers.
And the takers are what Sacks calls this intelligentsia, the analysts, the espousers, the armchair mechanics, the critics, the commentators, the politicians. They are the takers.
They are the people that watch the rest of society make stuff, build stuff, specifically doing things that create value for other people in society. That's what a maker is.”
We tax the things we want more of: productivity, building, investing, while we subsidize the things we want less of.
Then we wonder why nothing gets built?
Last night, I read the entirety of C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters. It's a novel told in the form of letters written by a demon to another demon instructing him on ways to manipulate his "patient" to do evil.
This one quote sounded familiar.
You won’t regret watching this clip
I first listened to this truly prophetic speech decades ago, but I’ve thought about it countless times since then
Neal A. Maxwell masterfully diagnosed the problems with our increasingly godless society