David

Retired Electrical Engineer

[David @VfcsVfcs]

@r0ck3t23 I would remind that the early examples of heat engines wete often less than 4% efficient and yet they built america and the rest of the world.

[David @VfcsVfcs]

@Mimiiben1 65

[David @VfcsVfcs]

@ValerieAnne1970 Suggest you push the rock button to get a more objective analysis.

[Rusty @RealRusty]

Elon Musk hat der EU gerade einen hübschen Mittelfinger gezeigt. 🖕😹

Die EU hat X eine Strafe von 120 Millionen € wegen mangelnder Transparenz hinsichtlich seines Algorithmus verhängt.

X veröffentlicht seinen Algorithmus nun auf GitHub, mit einem Update alle 4 Wochen.

Ausserdem:

X wird nun auch ALLE Zensuranfragen von Regierungen öffentlich machen, einschließlich derer der EU (die offensichtlich klar damit missbraucht).

Der europäische regulatorische Druck hat vielleicht mehr Transparenz hervorgebracht, als geplant.

Nur eben nicht so, wie Brüssel es sich vorgestellt hat.

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

I am dedicating this video to Elon Musk, one of the most important and consequential humans in modern history.

May we occupy Mars.

May we save the West and our Earth.

[David @VfcsVfcs]

@dunyasalbilim NP

[David @VfcsVfcs]

@tekboylz 21

[David @VfcsVfcs]

@veloraaivs Putting spin on the ball for aerodynamics in gyroscopic stabilization

[Ted Nugent @TedNugent]

Soulless Game Wardens.

[David @VfcsVfcs]

https://t.co/yLB4FVI2Dt

[David @VfcsVfcs]

@ZeducationYT Dust

[Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul]

Fantastic take here:

[Naruto @NarutoNolimits]

Elon Musk reveals what happens when a rocket launch needs approval from Fish and Wildlife

Elon: "Nonetheless, we were forced to kidnap a seal, strap it to a board, put headphones on the seal and play sonic boom sounds to it to see if it would be distressed."

Elon: "This is an actual thing that happened. This is actually real. I have pictures."

Before the seal, there was a shark.

Elon: "One of the things that was a bit of a challenge at one point is that they were worried about our rocket hitting a shark."

He asked for the data to calculate the odds. They refused, in case shark hunters got hold of it.

Elon: "Then they said, well, there's another part of Fish and Wildlife that can do this analysis. I'm like, well, why don't you give them the data? They don't, we don't trust them. Like, excuse me, but they're literally in your department."

Then a second agency raised whales.

Elon: "If our rocket does hit a whale, which is extremely unlikely beyond all belief, that whale has some seriously bad luck. It's the least lucky whale ever."

The seal test was for launches out of Vandenberg, where the seal population has been rising for years.

Elon: "So if anything, rocket booms are an aphrodisiac based on the evidence."

Elon: "The amazing part is how calm the seal was. Because if I was a seal, I'd be like, this is the end. They're definitely gonna eat me."

Elon: "Its seal buddies are never gonna believe him that he got strapped to a board and they put headphones on his ears."

They did it twice.

Elon: "I don't think the public is quite aware of the madness that goes on."

[David @VfcsVfcs]

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[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Katherine Boyle just named Elon Musk's greatest contribution to America, and it isn't sitting on a launchpad.

Boyle, General Partner at a16z: "I think that Elon's most important contribution to this country is training two generations of engineers … on how to work with their hands again."

For a decade, America's sharpest technical minds optimized ad clicks and shipped messaging apps. Software consumed ambition.

The physical world became something you abstracted into an API, not something you touched. Building real things became what you did if you couldn't code.

Elon didn't reverse that with inspiration. He reversed it by building companies where you either understood manufacturing or you failed.

SpaceX and Tesla forced engineers to learn how metal fractures, how tolerances cascade, how one physical iteration costs months and millions. No hotfix. No rollback. Physics doesn't negotiate.

Boyle: "Training two generations of engineers."

The product was never the cars. It was the people.

Look at who's founding America's hard-tech companies now. The common thread isn't Stanford or MIT. It's time on a factory floor at SpaceX or Tesla.

They learned to weld. They learned that "impossible" means unsolved engineering, not violated physics. They learned that failure in the physical world compounds, because nothing reverts.

Elon didn't just build companies. He rebuilt industrial knowledge that had been decaying for thirty years while the country's best minds chased digital scale.

He made atoms matter again. Made manufacturing the hardest problem worth solving. Made physical engineering prestigious in a way it hadn't been since humans walked on the moon.

Boyle: "Work with their hands again."

Five words that sound quaint. They describe the moment America started building again.

The blueprints for the Saturn V still exist. No one can build one from them.

Knowledge that lives in hands doesn't survive on paper. It dies in a single generation of neglect, and no archive brings it back. That is how a civilization loses the ability to make things while still holding every document that explains how.

America was one generation from that. It got the generation back instead.

The best technical talent no longer asks which app to build. It asks what should exist that doesn't. From engagement metrics to launch cadence. From scaling users to scaling factories.

That shift outlives every vehicle and spacecraft he delivered. Products obsolesce. Engineers who know how to make things do not.

We stopped coding the future. We started machining it, welding it, breaking it until physics signs off.

Those engineers are training the next wave now. The School of Elon doesn't need Elon anymore. It's self-sustaining, spreading through a generation that learned the higher calling is building real things.

That isn't a business achievement. It's a civilization remembering how to make things.

You can copy a design. You can't copy a generation that knows how to build one.

[David @VfcsVfcs]

@0xForge When the cutting blade wears out or the string needs replacing, can the robot also perform that duty?

[David @VfcsVfcs]

@Pirito4477 @Gini_220 Am not sure how I originally counted 12.

[David @VfcsVfcs]

@Pirito4477 @Gini_220 Looking at it again, I also count 10.

[David @VfcsVfcs]

@MrWhiplash_ I think "seeing" again is going to be much more difficult than making the connections to a external camera. CHECK: https://t.co/Xi32UfuqCj

[David @VfcsVfcs]

@MrWhiplash_ So will a person blind from birth be able to process the data into useful images?