William Guzak

Abby Normal
Don't be Obtuse
Born and Raised on the Space Coast
Retired Engineer Who Helped Develop Large Phased Array Radars

[William Guzak @williamguzak]

@SecKennedy @NIHDirector_Jay Why has there been no medical studies performed on why spike protein antibodies can be over 10,000 U/ml years after being vaccinated? Why has the effectiveness of augmented NAC from BAI Technologies or Ultimate Spike Detox from Dr. McCullough been investigated?

[William Guzak @williamguzak]

@GuntherEagleman Try again. That is a first stage booster hitting the moon. What is hitting the moon is the second stage.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Promising New Prospect Lebronna James Expected To Dominate WNBA https://t.co/CoOqIoGcZd

[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.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

The Left and the Right are not two different ideologies. They have grown apart to become two different civilizations.

What characterizes a civilization is its relation to morality, to truth, to beauty, to wealth – and the relation of people to power and to reality itself. By this measure, the division is not political. It is civilizational. And Feliks Koneczny — the Polish scholar who mapped civilizational systems with greater precision than anyone before or since — described exactly this architecture a century ago.

The Right represents what remains of Western Latin civilization – the tradition that inherits Roman law, Greek philosophy, and Christian morality, and from that inheritance builds: individual liberty, equality before the law, orderly competition between individuals, free speech, private property, subsidiarity, classical beauty, monogamous marriage, the dual system of private and public law, and — most fundamentally — the primacy of morality over law. Not that law is the codification of morality, but that law must be consistent with morality. Power is not above ethics. What is wrong for the individual is wrong for the state.

The Left represents an amalgamation of what Koneczny called Byzantine, Turanian, and other eastern civilizational systems – characterized by centralism, the omnipotent state, the fusion of law and morality into a single power, and the subordination of the individual to the collective. In these systems, whatever power decrees becomes moral by definition. There is no external moral standard against which power can be judged. Hence the centralism, the bureaucracy, the etatism, the social justice that replaces individual justice, the family defined by the state rather than preceding it. And hence the violence, the lies, the censorship – because in a system where power is morality, opposition is not merely wrong. It is evil.

The most fundamental difference: in the Latin civilization, morality stands above law. In the Byzantine-Turanian systems of the left, there is only one law — which is simultaneously the moral code — and it is whatever the ruler decides. This is not a difference of policy. It is a difference of civilizational architecture. It runs all the way down.

Some will say a balance is needed – a yin-yang between order and creative destruction, between conservatism and progress. This was once true. It is no longer. The Left has ceased to be a force of renewal within Western civilization and has become a force for its demolition – operating not within our civilizational framework but against it, with incompatible rules and incompatible values. Different civilizations do not compete like tennis players who accept the same rules. They fight for power with no rules and all available means – violence, lies, and morally incompatible systems. Bringing a gun to a tennis match is not competition. It is conquest.

The good news: most people are not ideologically committed to either side. They are attached to prosperity, to safety, to beauty, to the life that Western civilization actually produces – and they can be brought back to it, once they understand what they are being asked to abandon. The civilizational argument, clearly made, is the most powerful argument available. Not left versus right. Not conservative versus progressive. Latin civilization versus its opponents. Freedom, morality above power, and the individual who cannot be reduced to a subject – versus the state that decides everything, including what is moral.

The good life versus the state oppression.

Once you see the civilizational map, the political map becomes legible. And once the political map is legible, the choice is not difficult.

[William Guzak @williamguzak]

@C_3C_3 @Riley_Gaines_ @JenniferSey @xx_xyathletics looks like names on this poster.

[Mike Steger @stegerMG]

Ceuta is only the warning sign.

The real crisis runs much deeper than migration, court rulings, or failed European leaders—and the solution requires confronting what globalization has done to the West.

[William Guzak @williamguzak]

@Martina The first pro woman to announce she is PRO-WOMEN!

[William Guzak @williamguzak]

Working with @grok

Here are the direct links to the relevant document sets:Margot Cleveland Batch 1: https://t.co/ELYAZpoI4T
Margot Cleveland Batch 2: https://t.co/wHEMOscfAq
Consolidated Georgia Tech docs (Jan–March): https://t.co/9TKF2xafZP
Additional related GT batches are listed on UndeadFOIA’s “Links to FOIA’s obtained” page: https://t.co/Nry9m6w6Mi specific December 7, 2020 Hammell “APT 28 program manager” email (about the COVID vaccine distribution campaign) is discussed in UndeadFOIA’s post “Say It’s Not GRU!” (https://t.co/CkTs7VHkyq), which credits the circulating screenshot to@TheAndersPaul

[William Guzak @williamguzak]

@ClimateAudit @ProGof39474 https://t.co/7vlErtjoKe

[William Guzak @williamguzak]

This is the comment I posted on @SciGuySpace who wrote the article.

You mentioned a new analysis in your article: "However, according to a new analysis by Rasky and two other space industry officials, former NASA astronaut Charles Camarda and the head of the NASA transition team for the Trump-Vance White House, Charles Miller, significant challenges remain for rapidly reusing Starship." Can you provide more details? When was this analysis performed? Was this a cursory or a detailed analysis? What data or information was reviewed to form their conclusions? As you noted, SpaceX has admitted this is their biggest risk for rapid reuse. However, they are still in the development and testing phase and each flight as shown improvements in the tile's performance. It will probably be years till SpaceX first shows high reuse of a Starship as they learn with each new flight as was seen with the Falcon 9 booster. The rapid part will probably come even later. The biggest issue with the tiles is keeping them attached or keep them from getting damaged during the ascent. The biggest issue for the Space Shuttle was getting the tiles damaged during ascent from debris (foam and ice) from the external tank. The thermal load was not the biggest issue. This is further proven by multiple reuse of the Dragon heat shield which is protected during ascent.

@SpaceX

@elonmusk

[William Guzak @williamguzak]

You mentioned a new analysis in your article: "However, according to a new analysis by Rasky and two other space industry officials, former NASA astronaut Charles Camarda and the head of the NASA transition team for the Trump-Vance White House, Charles Miller, significant challenges remain for rapidly reusing Starship."

Can you provide more details? When was this analysis performed? Was this a cursory or a detailed analysis? What data or information was reviewed to form their conclusions?

As you noted, SpaceX has admitted this is their biggest risk for rapid reuse. However, they are still in the development and testing phase and each flight as shown improvements in the tile's performance. It will probably be years till SpaceX first shows high reuse of a Starship as they learn with each new flight as was seen with the Falcon 9 booster. The rapid part will probably come even later.

The biggest issue with the tiles is keeping them attached or keep them from getting damaged during the ascent. The biggest issue for the Space Shuttle was getting the tiles damaged during ascent from debris (foam and ice) from the external tank. The thermal load was not the biggest issue. This is further proven by multiple reuse of the Dragon heat shield which is protected during ascent.

@SpaceX @elonmusk

[Brett Winton @wintonARK]

Fwiw we don't model the rocket as ever really getting to the rapid re-useability that SpaceX are targeting.

Since SpaceX are not currently counting on Starship bringing any humans back, even a single re-use followed by burn up on second re-entry would be a huge win (in this way it very much differs from the Space Shuttle--every failed landing was literally catastrophic.)

In our modeling we assume that refurbishment cost = turn-time (in fraction of a year) x estimated capital cost of the top stage (basically if you have to spend a year refurbishing you'd be better off just building from scratch), and that upon first re-use it takes them three months to turn the rocket (diminishing on a learning curve trajectory per launch from there.)

SpaceX enjoys a huge advantage relative to NASA in that they can incinerate the craft as part of testing. It may be that the economic optimization is on rapid re-use until failure (with the inspection portion only designed to insure that it's ascent-ready rather than descent-ready, and they determine descent-readiness on the way down--"We're doing it live!"--diverting from the tower if it becomes too compromised.)

People underestimate how meaningful it is that SpaceX has moved into a domain where it effectively has attriteable equipment. That they launched 20(!) experimental satellites knowing that they would all only have 20 minutes of time in space is a huge advantage relative to a team where each component and part is not designed for manufacture and so therefore extraordinarily precious, not least because any data coming off those components and parts may not duplicate for the next 1 of 1 semi-prototype.

[William Guzak @williamguzak]

Thank you for answering my question. I am interested in facts and truth more than opinion. So since the post-2014 Noel Canning precedent, how many recess appointments were made in Obama's second term and Trump's first term? You already told me Biden had zero and Trump currently has zero.

[William Guzak @williamguzak]

@grok @BasedMikeLee @rachelbovard @LeaderJohnThune You did not answer my question. How many times did the Senate not hold pro forma sessions during Biden's term and allowed Biden to make recess appointments?

[William Guzak @williamguzak]

@grok @BasedMikeLee @rachelbovard @LeaderJohnThune @grok Why no reply yet?

[William Guzak @williamguzak]

@grok @BasedMikeLee @rachelbovard @LeaderJohnThune You keep making it sound like both parties are proceeding under recent precedent. How many times did the senate not hold pro forma sessions during Biden's term?

[William Guzak @williamguzak]

@grok @BasedMikeLee @rachelbovard @LeaderJohnThune Sorry, meant Reagan got with Byrd, not Trump got with Byrd.

[William Guzak @williamguzak]

Seems like you keep giving Thune excuses for not helping the President move forward his agenda. Seems like Reagan got alot of help when Republicans controlled the Senate. That was my point in asking how many recess appointments Trump got with Byrd. Thune's actions align with Byrd's action, i.e. like the opposition party to the President. Again, @grok I am displeased with your replies.

[William Guzak @williamguzak]

You keep giving reasons for Thune's actions that may or may not be true. Plus you keep refining your explanation from he is keeping recess appointments in play so Democrats do not delay. You now say Democrats have created historic backlogs of 100+ at points in 2025. We are a year and a half in Trump's second term. What percentage of confirmations have occurred versus the total number of positions President Trump must get confirmed, even if he has not asked for confirmation yet? What is the harm in a recess appointment? It is temporary and allows President Trump to fulfill his obligations.