Jim Cantrell

Earth is still in an Ice Age, and almost nobody knows it. Ice ages don't end when the glaciers melt; they end when all polar ice disappears completely. Right now, ice still covers Antarctica and the Arctic; which means by scientific definition we are still in an Ice Age. What we are living in - right now - is called an interglacial period, a warm pause, a temporary thaw between glacial advances. The current interglacial - called the Holocene - began about 11,700 years ago. Every human civilisation, that has ever existed - Ancient Egypt, Rome, China - all of it happened inside this single warm pause. And here is what makes this deeply unsettling; in the last 2.58 million years the Earth has cycled through at least 50 glacial advances. The warm pauses between them typically last 10,000 to 30,000 years. We are already 11,700 years into ours. The ice cores drilled from Antarctica tells us exactly what happened before. Every interglacial ends; every one! The temperature drops, the glaciers advance, and ice sheets kilometres thick crush everything beneath them. During the last Glacial Maximum just 20,000 years ago, ice sheets covered most of North America, Northern Europe and Asia. New York City was under a kilometre of ice. And none of that required a catastrophe. It happened slowly and quietly, driven by wobbles in Earth's orbit around the Sun, called the Milankovitch cycles. The next glacial advance will come; not tomorrow, not in our lifetime. But it will come. We are not living 'after' the Ice Age: We're living inside it. facebook.com/share/v/1MaGGCR…

🚨 SPACEX FERMA I LANCE DI SATELLITI EUROPEI! 🚀 🇪🇺⚡️🚀 Controllo missione SpaceX: "A partire da oggi, tutte le piattaforme di lancio, i codici di telemetria per i razzi e l'integrazione dei satelliti governativi europei in orbita sono sospesi." 🇪🇺 Comando Spaziale Europeo: "Questo è un atto di guerra contro la nostra infrastruttura spaziale. I nostri satelliti per il monitoraggio climatico e la difesa rimarranno a terra a tempo indeterminato." 🚀 Elon Musk: "Avete utilizzato regolamenti arbitrari per imporre a X e Starlink multe da miliardi. Il contratto di lancio è ufficialmente annullato." 🔥 🇪🇺 Comando Spaziale Europeo: "Congelaremo i conti bancari regionali di SpaceX e sequestreremo le vostre strutture di lancio in Europa." 🚀 Elon Musk: "Congelate pure i conti bancari che volete. Con la burocrazia, non riuscirete comunque a mettere in orbita un satellite di difesa da 5 tonnellate." 🔥🔥

约翰·麦卡菲被问了无数次“成功的秘诀”，终于懒得再装了。 他直接说：你不会喜欢这个答案。 许多人终其一生都在拼命努力、频繁试错、疯狂内卷，结果依然在原地打转。 不是能力不够，也不是机运未到。 因为你本质上是一个被死死拴在海底的气球。 气球生来就该向上浮。 真正把你按在深水区窒息的，不是天赋的贫瘠，而是你身上的负重： 恐惧、怨恨、失望，以及对受害者身份的执念。 这些烂绳子不斩断，你再怎么折腾，也绝不可能浮出水面。 斩断它们，你浮到顶端只是一种物理必然。 麦卡菲给出的解法极其冷酷，只有一句话： 立刻切断，绝不恋战。 伴侣惹毛你、合伙人背刺你，如果你在 10 秒钟内还无法翻篇，这局你就已经彻底输了。 因为那已经是过去。 10 秒前是过去，10 小时前是过去，10 年前同样是过去。 在这个物理世界里，过去根本不存在。 你每多愤怒一秒，都是在用现在的生命，为死掉的幽灵支付巨额租金。 停止反刍，停止怨恨，剪掉所有往下拉扯你的下坠力量。 困住你的从来不是残酷的外部世界，而是你自己死死攥着、舍不得松手的那根烂绳子。

My advice to young men: 1. Get married 2. Have children 3. Build something you own 4. Love God, family & country 5. Learn to defend yourself 6. Make money & invest it 7. Spend time with peers over heroes 8. Have goals & a mission 9. Stand for something 10. Help as many others as you can 11. Don’t complain, compete 12. Read, write, and think often 13. Be hard on yourself, kind to others 14. Sweat every day 15. Give compliments to strangers 16. Smile and laugh as much as possible 17. Take more photos and videos 18. Seek those with a common future 19. Act like it will all work out 20. Live your life knowing one day you will die

I’ve lived in Arizona for 29 years and this was my favorite monsoon season of all time.

That's the thing I'm challenging. I don't think they want to launch other people's sats––though they'll have to satiate USG at the very least and launch some to fend off antitrust concerns (modulo which party controls the FTC).

Writing this in my personal capacity, but I have been flying these types of aircraft for more than 20 years, with over 8,000 hours, and have reasonable familiarity with how the charter world operates. I feel compelled to post after seeing commentary about the Lear 60 crash, from missile strikes to DEI to critiquing this poor woman’s final radio calls. That last part is what I find most troubling. She was the second-in-command (SIC), and while she was empowered to point out mistakes as part of good crew resource management, she was doing her job, communicating with ATC right to the end in a terrifying situation. She likely knew before many of those calls that she was going to die. I have heard final calls from friends, from military pilots with thousands of hours in fighter aircraft, and they are just as heartbreaking because they know the end is approaching. I understand the public interest given the footage and audio. But you do not know the aircraft’s maintenance history, whether there was a structural failure, if any failure was induced by turbulence, overspeed, or overcontrol, or everything happening in that cockpit. I am sure weather will be part of the investigation, but beyond that, it is speculation. The charter industry routinely hires commercial pilots very early in their careers to gain experience alongside an ATP-qualified captain before they move up to the airlines. She would still have the appropriate training, qualifications, and checkouts by an FAA examiner or designee. Let people investigate, learn, and share the facts. Be respectful to those who perished and the families who carry their memories. God bless them and their loved ones.

FAFO, Kid — A Slightly Stoned Sermon Listen up, young blood, while the world’s still soft and green: If you’ve got hours to spare for a march or a scene, For flipping a trash can or smashing a sign, You’re spending the only currency that never returns—time. The one cause that matters before the real world arrives (with its bills, its bosses, its quiet little knives) Is this: drink the light while the light’s still free. Read what lifts you. Laugh at the absurdity. Collect the ridiculous sunsets, the dumb perfect songs, The friends who make everything feel slightly less wrong. Stay clear of the heavy stuff while you still can. The dark has a waiting list—adulting’s the plan. It’ll find you. It always does. No need to RSVP. Just show up later with a full tank of “remember when it was easy?” Yeah, yeah, I know—right now this all sounds like Some old-timer’s crock, the usual parental trick. “Touch grass, kid. Smile more. The system’s not that bad.” And maybe it is. Maybe the world’s gone half-mad. But if even one of these lines somehow sticks in your head, Life has a funny way of vibrating instead. Not perfectly. Not always. But softer, somehow. Like you spent your youth collecting the good stuff— and now, when the hard stuff shows up, you’ve still got a little of it left in your pocket. FAFO, little one. Just try not to find out the expensive way.

scoop: SpaceX declined to offer Falcon for three future Space Force missions, and no other company offered to fly them either — an early sign of the launch crunch politico.com/news/2026/10/22…

The Russian Kosmos-2612 sat has closed in to the US owned ICEYE X36 radar satellite, which is used by Ukraine. It has been station keeping within 5 km & may close in to a few meters. Unclear, what Russia is going to do, but the situation is concerning. xitter.cf/Marco_Langbroek/status…

Scrappy early years are a feature, not a phase. The contrast case is Quibi: $1.75B raised, shut down 198 days after launch (AP, Oct 21, 2020). Too much money too early lets a team skip the do-whatever-it-takes years, and that's where you learn what customers want.

People thought Elon was a lunatic for starting SpaceX Jim Cantrell (@jamesncantrell), a SpaceX founding team member, reveals what working with Elon Musk was really like in the early days "Wanting to build rockets yourself… that was literally an act of insanity in 2002" "Elon was willing to throw $100 million of his own money, which was real money" "He never even conceives of failure. He just doesn’t"

Map depicting the conquistador Hernando De Soto's trek through Western North Carolina, present-day Tennessee, and down to the Mississippi.

From concept to reality. @SpaceX has successfully deployed Starlink V3 satellites into Earth’s orbit and made contact with them for the first time. At scale, one Starship carries 60 V3 satellites, the same network capacity as about 20 Falcon 9 launches.