๐จ WHAT'S YOUR OPINION
IF A BILL WERE INTRODUCED TO BAN THE MUSLIM CALL TO PRAYER FROM PUBLIC SPACES, HOW STRONGLY WOULD YOU SUPPORT IT ?
A. 100%
B. 75%
C. 50%
D. 25%
E. No
๐จ๐ฏ๐ต BREAKING NEWS
Japan bans: Halal, Mosques, Call to prayer, Burka โ
Essentially saying Islam is not welcome.
Do you want your country to copy Japanโs laws?
A. Copy Japan
B. Donโt copy Japan
A Muslim woman in Switzerland was fined โฌ109 for wearing a burqa. After appealing the fine, claiming it was "Islamophobia," her penalty increased to โฌ1,085.๐จ๐ญ๐จ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ
Do you agree with the increased fine?
A) Yes ๐ข
B) No ๐ด
On January 15, 2025, Falcon 9 successfully deployed Firefly Aerospaceโs Blue Ghost Mission 1 and ispaceโs RESILIENCE lunar landers on a trajectory to the Moon from pad 39A in Florida.
For most of our missions, we plan a controlled deorbit of the Falcon second stage so it safely reenters over the ocean. For higher energy missions like those to a lunar transfer orbit, nearly all performance on the vehicle is devoted to successfully placing the payload in the intended orbit, and a controlled disposal maneuver is not always possible.
We actively work to be as responsible as possible with hardware left in space to ensure space safety, including for more complex missions. In this case, over time, solar activity and gravity led the second stage toward the Moon. Impacts like this are rare, but they can happen with objects in these types of orbits, and we worked with NASA on the optimal disposal solution.
Our focus remains on advancing reliable access to space while working toward even more sustainable operations with Starship in the future. As a fully reusable vehicle, Starship is designed to eliminate expendable upper stages entirely, reducing hardware left in orbit and enabling even more missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
๐จ breaking: after stepping down from leading Product at ๐, @nikitabier announced he will be joining the a16z new media team
"I'm passionate about the future of content as a mechanism for high-growth startups to accelerate," he said to a confidential source
Anyone else following the DARPA Lift Challenge?
$6.5M in prize money to build a drone that can:
- Stay under 55 lbs
- Take off with a 110 lb minimum payload (4x its weight)
- Fly 4 nautical miles loaded (12 laps)
- Drop the payload
- Fly 1 more nautical mile empty (3 laps)
- Finish inside a 30-min window
Top 3 teams split the full prize as long as they clear the 4:1 ratio.
Most heavy-lift drones can barely lift their own weight. DARPA wants 4x. That's never been done.