Meanie Wear retweeted
Catching a giant rocket falling from space
Starship is preparing for catch
Flight 15 is targeting to launch as early as Friday, November 13, pending regulatory approval → spacex.com/launches/starship…
Meanie Wear retweeted
The new security officer is a little intimidating...
ALT A calico cat leaning on a desk in an office.
Meanie Wear retweeted
Back to the Moon
LIVE: @NASAAdmin and agency leaders are sharing the latest updates on next year's Artemis III mission and our plans to return astronauts to the surface of the Moon by 2028. xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1RJZzBdZY…
Meanie Wear retweeted
They put him in charge of security (and nap time).
ALT A cat sleeping in the window display of a jewellery story.
Meanie Wear retweeted
Internet connectivity enables education & prosperity
🚨 ELON MUSK ON INTERNET AND POVERTY
Elon said the single biggest thing you can do to lift people out of poverty is give them an internet connection.
Once people have internet, they can learn almost anything for free and sell their goods and services to the world.
SpaceX is in a strong position. It will likely do about 90% of the mass launched to orbit this year, and nearly 80% of all active satellites in orbit are already SpaceX, providing high-bandwidth connectivity worldwide.
Meanie Wear retweeted
Unexpected item in bagging area.
📸 Aubuchon Hardware
ALT Two cats in the bagging area of a hardware store. One is cheekily poking out of the top of a white carrier bag.
Meanie Wear retweeted
I think this is worth doing
ELON MUSK: AI competitors should peer review each other’s models before release.
“I would recommend that we at least have some sort of informal weekly or biweekly call and that there’s maybe a week or two weeks of early access by competitors. This is why I think the incentives work, competing companies are likely to understand if something is a security risk and they’re not going to be shy about highlighting that their competitors’ models should be delayed in release.
The incentive structure does work quite well there. It’s similar to how the Motion Picture Association works as an industry group that decides how movies should be rated. That seems to have worked quite well. You really just have to ask the government to intervene if a company is doing something very dangerous and refuses to take action to reduce the danger.”
Meanie Wear retweeted
It’s time for your annual review.
📸 Bodleian Libraries
ALT A white and brown cat sitting behind a computer desk.
Meanie Wear retweeted
Keeping up with the Kardashevs
Elon Musk reveals why, measured against the sun's energy, human civilization barely registers as existing at all:
"Right now we're very low on the Kardashev one scale. If you say what proportion of our planet's power are we harnessing, it's a very, very tiny number. And we're harnessing almost nothing of our star's power. The sun is truly an immense thing. It's difficult with words to characterize just how immense the sun is"
"The sun is about 99.86% of all mass in the solar system. Most of the remaining 0.14% is Jupiter. The entire mass of Earth is in the tiny miscellaneous category. Earth is a tiny dust mote compared to the sun"
"We currently use much less than a trillionth of the power output of the sun, and a trillion is a million times a million. So basically we're practically nowhere on the Kardashev two scale. On the Kardashev scale, we're still non-existent. We're not registering"
