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I live in perpetual nostalgia

[dhanno @thenanjay]

There used to be a time when we talked about how deaths must not become mere statistics. But what happens when the deceased aren't even counted in official numbers? We have no conception (and probably never will) of the scale of tragedy that's unfolding across India right now.

[Srivatsa @srivatsayb]

Bodies being burnt on footpaths in Ghaziabad. This is not Ram Rajya. It's Rakshas Rajya in UP.

[Frontier Indica @frontierindica]

Some thoughts on the SpaceX IPO.

SpaceX has priced its IPO at $135 a share, which works out to a valuation of around $1.77 trillion and makes this the largest IPO in history, ahead of Saudi Aramco. Trading begins today, and early indications have the stock opening well above the issue price, which would push the market cap toward $2 trillion.

To put that in Indian terms, SpaceX at the IPO price is not merely bigger than our largest companies. It is in a different civilizational weight class. Reliance, our most valuable listed company, is around $183 billion. HDFC Bank is around $120 billion. Eternal, probably India's greatest listed internet success story, is around $24 billion. So SpaceX at issue price is roughly 10 Reliances, 15 HDFC Banks, or 74 Eternals, and if the stock settles near $200, those numbers grow by close to half again.

Now, valuations can be stupid. Markets overpay, hype creates retail frenzy, and $1.77 trillion on current revenues is a giant bet on future Starlink cash flows, future Starship economics, and future monopoly over orbital logistics. All those things may or may not be true, but the underlying achievement is still extraordinary.

In the old space era, putting mass into orbit was painfully expensive. The Space Shuttle cost upwards of $50,000 per kg to low Earth orbit. Falcon 9 brought that down to the low thousands, Falcon Heavy pushed it lower, and Starship, if it works as intended, could cut it by another order of magnitude. What SpaceX has been doing for fifteen years is converting access to orbit from a boutique state project into industrial freight, and once space becomes freight, everything downstream changes.

The number of launches SpaceX has pulled off puts this point in perspective. SpaceX flew 6 times in 2014, 13 times in 2019, 134 times in 2024 and 165 times in 2025. In 2026 it is averaging a launch roughly every two days. Starlink alone has crossed 10,000 satellites launched for a single internet constellation. ISRO, which has done remarkable work on shoestring budgets for five decades, has a little over 100 launch missions in its entire history, which says less about ISRO and more about how far one private company's operating tempo has pulled ahead of every national space programme on Earth.

Starship is the next jump. A fully reusable version is designed to put more than 100 tonnes in orbit per flight, and mass is the binding constraint on everything humans want to do beyond Earth. Every habitat, reactor, rover, solar panel and life support system is ultimately a mass-to-orbit problem, so cut that cost far enough and the possible design space of civilization expands.

Mars remains nightmare mode: radiation, dust, distance, medicine, fuel production, governance. SpaceX itself says a self-sufficient city there needs upwards of a million people and millions of tonnes of cargo, the hardest logistics project our species has ever attempted. Which is exactly why cheap, frequent, repeatable launches are so critical, the kind that become as normalized as routine airline operations. The Moon will likely come first, and even a permanent lunar base would mean a massive step ahead for humans becoming a true spacefaring and space colonizing species.

In all of this, the part that should sting in India is the ceiling on our ambition. We celebrate 10-minute grocery, credit card rewards apps and slightly better sarkari form-filling SaaS as the frontier of innovation. Some of these are perfectly good businesses. But SpaceX is what happens when a company picks a problem with no ceiling at all, and the largest fortunes of the next century will come from that category.

The question for India is simple: do we want to be a country that merely consumes this future, regulates it, tweets about it, and asks for Starlink licences? Or do we want Indian founders, engineers, investors and institutions to have a serious role in it?

Because the space frontier is not going to wait for our sarkari tender process to finalize which babu's contractor relative gets to do the next launch.

[dhanno @thenanjay]

I fled Him, down the nights and down the days;
I fled Him, down the arches of the years;
I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways
Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears
I hid from Him, and under running laughter.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

In Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam, God's finger stretches fully outward, while Adam's finger is bent at the last joint. It illustrates that God is always present, but it is up to humans to take the initiative to connect with Him...

[dhanno @thenanjay]

Goated product btw. Easily the best protein supplementing product i’ve had by a margin

[Asad🗽🍎 @AsadFromNYC]

The secret: These overnight oats mixed with almond milk in their bottle, shaken, and kept in the fridge, and this electrolyte powder mixed with water in a separate cup. You get your protein, your fiber, your hydration, and your energy without needing to cook or bake a thing.

[Sakshi Narula @mssakshinarula]

Can we please have an educated, cultured, spatially aware and well dressed PM the next time? How hard is it to maintain a decent distance and professionalism with the world's biggest leaders and executives? The hugs, the incessant laughter, the weird handshakes and posturing for the cameras is nauseating.

[dhanno @thenanjay]

First RAM, now GPUs. This seems to be going in the direction of a world where personal compute gets prohibitively expensive so you just have to pay recurring subscriptions for everything. Gaming, storage, AI. Companies seem to be pushing for local hosting to be made obsolete

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Nvidia to cut gaming GPU production by 30-40% starting 2026

Source: https://t.co/ysVLFmfGXG

[dhanno @thenanjay]

Can confirm.

[RAW @rawknuckle]

I highly encourage any one under the age of 30 to pick up skiing/snowboarding. It will most likely change every single one of your lives. You will go on trips around the world youve never imagined solely for that. You will have snow trips with friends youll never forget. Youll teach your kids at a very young age. Youll have an annual week-long snow trip with your family to your favorite mountain. You will feel the joy of living and be invigorated by it. You will look forward to these events throughout the week. Youll look forward to Winter in the Summer. You should pick up skiing/snowboarding. Thank me later.

[Christopher Clary @clary_co]

Contemporary India is the sort of place where the government wants to put a monitoring app on every person's phone but also the sort of place where the outcry about the plan can cause a reversal.

[dhanno @thenanjay]

This needs to be a non-partisan issue across all party lines. Unconditional, no bullshit, no politicking. Fixing the AQI should be our Manhattan Project over the next year or so. North India is absolutely unlivable right now and we our playing with our future if we don’t fix this

[Rajeev Shukla @ShuklaRajiv]

दिल्ली और आस-पास के इलाकों में बढ़ता प्रदूषण गंभीर चिंता का विषय है। यह सिर्फ़ मीटिंग, प्रस्ताव और कागज़ात से हल नहीं होगा। ठोस और तुरंत कदम उठाने की ज़रूरत है। यह हमारे लिए शर्म की बात है कि हम अपने बच्चों और आने वाली पीढ़ियों को अच्छी हवा नहीं दे पा रहे हैं। मैं केंद्र सरकार और दिल्ली सरकार दोनों से इस बारे में तुरंत कदम उठाने की अपील करता हूँ।

[Rajeev Shukla @ShuklaRajiv]

दिल्ली और आस-पास के इलाकों में बढ़ता प्रदूषण गंभीर चिंता का विषय है। यह सिर्फ़ मीटिंग, प्रस्ताव और कागज़ात से हल नहीं होगा। ठोस और तुरंत कदम उठाने की ज़रूरत है। यह हमारे लिए शर्म की बात है कि हम अपने बच्चों और आने वाली पीढ़ियों को अच्छी हवा नहीं दे पा रहे हैं। मैं केंद्र सरकार और दिल्ली सरकार दोनों से इस बारे में तुरंत कदम उठाने की अपील करता हूँ।

[Shivam Vij @DilliDurAst]

There’s a huge air pollution crisis OUTSIDE Delhi.

Lack of air pollution meters gives people the false belief that pollution isn’t as bad as Delhi.

People don’t install air purifiers at home even when they should.

Local governments are complacent; there’s no problem to solve

[Priyesh Sharma @Kenu73]

You land in Delhi, you realise how bad is the Air Quality here. You won't feel any of it if you stay here and do not experience the good air, I am honestly surprised how no one in Authority thinks this to be a health hazard, ever since I have landed in Delhi, I have a bad throat, itchiness and clear indications of how polluted the air is.

I think, people have just made peace with the fact that nothing can be done and have settled for this pathetic situation as normal.

I am fortunate enough to not have more than 7 calendar days in this city for the entire year but I just can't stop thinking about millions other, small kids and hardworking folks who have to spend so many hours out.

Indian junta please come out of the party favouritism and start asking the real questions or keep enjoying the slow poison.

[dhanno @thenanjay]

A lot of these newer and smaller Indian brands like @daily_objects, @GullyLabs, @delhiwatchco, and Banjaaran Studios are blowing my mind. Great quality, very unique designs, and great prices.

[dhanno @thenanjay]

@sansiddh Would strongly recommend buying a pack of their podi and sprinkling it on plain fried chicken. Tastes absolutely phenomenal

[Anurag Kochar @anurag__kochar]

Btw this fair happens in Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh. If this fair were in Japan, the internet would've gone crazy. India just needs a better PR team.

[Nagrik 🇮🇳 @indian_nagrik]

Delhi residents are not going to keep their mouth shut and let BJP ruin their lives.

[dhanno @thenanjay]

@pHequals7 @DharParth

[Sid Prabhu @sidprabhu]

Human level intelligence achieved