Sam Clarke

[Sam Clarke @samclarke7]

@MrBeast 250,000

[Sam Clarke @samclarke7]

@KLM why am i sitting on a delayed plane that I need to reschedule flights and your customer service is closed ?

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

If you're under 53 years old, you have never once been alive while a human was farther than 250 miles from Earth. Tonight, four astronauts are heading 252,000 miles out. That's a thousand times farther than any person has gone in your lifetime.

The 250-mile ceiling is where the International Space Station floats. Every astronaut since December 1972 has been stuck in that zone. Spacewalks, science experiments, cool photos from orbit, sure. But nobody left the neighborhood.

The last crew to go farther was Apollo 17. December 1972. Nixon was president. The internet didn't exist. Cell phones were 11 years away. The youngest member of that crew is now 90 years old.

The farthest any human has ever been from Earth is 248,655 miles. The Apollo 13 crew set that number in 1970, and they didn't mean to. Their oxygen tank blew up, and the emergency route home took them farther out than anyone before or since. Tonight's crew will break that record on purpose.

And the crew itself. Victor Glover becomes the first Black astronaut to leave Earth's neighborhood. Christina Koch becomes the first woman. Jeremy Hansen, a Canadian fighter pilot, becomes the first non-American to do so. When they come home, they'll slam into the atmosphere at 25,000 mph, faster than any human has ever traveled.

The Moon's south pole has ice. Water ice, sitting in craters so deep that sunlight hasn't hit them in billions of years. A 2024 NASA study found way more of it than anyone expected. You can split water into hydrogen and oxygen, which gives you rocket fuel, breathable air, and drinking water, all made on the Moon instead of hauled up from Earth. George Sowers at Colorado School of Mines calculated that Moon-made fuel could shave $12 billion off a single trip to Mars. The Moon is a gas station on the road to Mars.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced last week a $20 billion plan to build a permanent base at the South Pole over the next seven years, with landings every six months. China is developing its own lunar lander and spacesuit, aiming for a crewed landing by 2030. The Artemis program has burned through $93 billion so far, and the first actual surface landing is penciled in for 2028. There's a real question of who gets there first this time around.

Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon in December 1972 as part of Apollo 17. He's 90. Asked about it this week, he sounded pretty relaxed. "Mars is attainable," he said. "We're humans. That's what we've always done."

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Slow motion catch of the most massive flying object ever made

[ELON CLIPS @ElonClipsX]

Marc Andreessen: Elon inspires incredible loyalty from his employees because they know he'll sit all night with them to solve a problem.

“Elon actually delegates almost everything. He's not involved in most of the things that his companies are doing. 

He's involved in the thing that is the biggest problem right now until that thing is fixed.

And then, he doesn't have to be involved in it anymore, he can go focus on the next thing that's the biggest problem for that company right now. 

In manufacturing, there's this concept of the bottleneck. In any manufacturing chain, there's always some bottleneck, something that is keeping the manufacturing line from running the way that it's supposed to. Whatever the bottleneck, it's holding everything up. 

The job number one is to remove that bottleneck and get everything flowing again. I think Elon basically has universalized that concept and he basically looks at every company like it's some sort of conceptual assembly line. 

I don't need to manage everything else because everything else, by definition, is running better than that. I can go focus on that. 

A lot of CEOs, especially non-technical CEOs, would really struggle to implement his method. When he identifies the bottleneck, he goes and he talks to the line engineers who understand the technical nature of the bottleneck. 

If it's people on a manufacturing line, he's talking to people directly on the line. Or if that's people in a software development group, he's talking to the people actually writing the code. 

He's not asking the VP of Engineering to ask the Director of Engineering to ask the manager to ask the individual contributor to write a report that's to be reviewed in three weeks. He doesn't do that. He would throw them all out of the window. There's just no way he would do that. 

He goes and personally finds the engineer who actually has the knowledge about the thing, and then he sits in the room with that engineer and fixes the problem with them. 

This is why he inspires such incredible loyalty, especially from the technical people who he works with. They're like, wow, if I'm up against a problem I don't know how to solve, freaking Elon Musk is going to show up in his Gulfstream jet, and he's going to sit with me overnight in front of the keyboard or in front of the manufacturing line, and he's going to help me figure this out.”

Interview of @pmarca by @ChrisWillx on Youtube, December 14, 2024

[Frank LaRose @FrankLaRose]

Today when the National Anthem plays at the Army / Navy game there will be no knees on the turf. The young Americans there know that this country is worth standing up for. 🇺🇸

[Michael Morelli @morellifit]

This man changed the game:

Dr. Peter Attia.

He dedicated his life to figuring out how humans can increase their lifespan & live to 100+.

Here are 5 game-changing habits he discovered (that you can start right now):

[Architecture @CharlestonArchi]

Stone sills in Holland designed to last for centuries, with drip groove and inward stooling at the wings so water doesn't wear away at the joints.

[Sam Clarke @samclarke7]

Can someone explain how a bottle of water costs $2.79 while beer is on the shelf, laughing with a cheaper tag? It's like the grocery stores and Coke joined forces to redefine 'thirsty for profit.' Inflation or price gouging? #RipOffAlert #inflation

[Sam Clarke @samclarke7]

Thanks Soldier Mountain for making the slopes a playground of learning and joy for kids! Here's to more snowy adventures and a lifetime of love for the mountains! 🎿❄️ #Skiing #YouthSports #SoldierMountain"

https://t.co/FOzzOsu2yU

[Sam Clarke @samclarke7]

Check out Soldier Mountain https://t.co/iN7nRSNhK6

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Optimus

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

The problem is not people being uneducated.
The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught. 🧠

[Sam Clarke @samclarke7]

🤖💨 The #TeslaBot is straight out of jetsons! 🚀 Designed to help with repetitive tasks and mundane chores, this is a game-changer for productivity and convenience. Can't wait to see how it revolutionizes the way we live and work! #FutureTech #Innovation https://t.co/3yc5nAEjNb

[University of Utah @UUtah]

Wow, @TimShriver delivered last night. Great speech! #UtahGrad23 🎓

We're proud to be leading the way with Tim and @TheDignityIndex in bringing "dignity" & conscience back to politics & society.

The entire address can be seen here: https://t.co/s60vVKNnCc

[Sam Clarke @samclarke7]

@wilschroter @RyanQualtrics M

[Jason Gay @jasongay]

This is it, this is the whole thing. @TomFarrey

[Sam Clarke @samclarke7]

@Delta please explain why platinum status has a 5 hour wait for customer service. It is the same wait time for non status. So much for the platinum customer service.

[Sam Clarke @samclarke7]

Another great week of Tech School. Check out the topic Monetizing Your Intellectual Property with Ido Tuchman https://t.co/lAOwyP5WH0 via @YouTube