Trial lawyers are lobbying against self-driving cars because they're too safe. They need people to be killed and injured so that they have material for lawsuits.
When I first came to India, the space industry was closed to private players.
The most well-known "startup" at that time was TeamIndus. Skyroot didn't exist.
A year later, in 2018, Skyroot was founded. Private companies in India couldn't launch rockets yet, but Pawan and Bharath forged ahead regardless, optimistic that liberalisation would happen someday.
Then, in 2020, it did. Indian companies were finally free to compete with American, Russian, European, and Chinese startups. They could build their own launch vehicles. And satellites. At an undisclosed location in the United States, Elon swallowed hard.
I was publishing videos about Indian companies on YouTube at this point. I remember thinking, "Making content about these spacetech developments is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."
Now, ~6 years later, Skyroot has gifted India with the biggest white pill of all time. While the world watched, a team of ~1,000+ Indian optimists (with an average age of 28) flawlessly executed an orbital rocket launch.
No private space company IN THE WORLD has ever done this on their first try. As I write this, I have goosebumps. I feel incredibly privileged to have been able to witness this firsthand. I also feel inspired by the resilience, ingenuity, and wherewithal of the entire Skyroot team.
The next chapter of India's space journey has officially begun.
@max_spero_ Definitely agree, but mostly for the screening part, but a lot of companies still have multiple LC rounds in their loop structure, which seems a bit redundant? That time can likely be spent asking better/broader questions imo
Madame Celeste Amarilla,
Vous êtes une femme méprisable et indigne de sa fonction.
Vous ne représentez pas le Paraguay, ce pays qui a transpiré la passion et l’honneur tout au long de la compétition. Par votre inconscience et votre racisme décomplexé, le monde entier a déjà oublié le parcours et l’effort historique que vos joueurs ont réalisés durant cette coupe du monde pour laisser place à une dame incompétente donnant la pire image possible de son pays.
Je ne laisserai jamais aux gens comme elle, la liberté de laisser propager leur haine et leur racisme à travers le monde.
even Sam Altman is confused by how education hasn't significantly changed at all since ChatGPT came out:
"if we continue to teach students as if we were in a pre-AGI world, it's gonna lead to an atrophy of critical thinking."
Is San Francisco's NIMBY era finally over?👀
The city just approved a 67 story skyscraper that would become the 3rd tallest building in the Bay Area!
The numbers are staggering:
🏙️ 67 floors
🏠 1,019 apartments
📏 820 feet tall
🛍️ Ground-floor retail
🚇 Steps from transit
For years, San Francisco became the poster child for saying "no."
Now it's approving thousand-unit skyscrapers.
Has the city finally turned the corner?
#SanFrancisco #SF #California #Housing #Skyscraper