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.@RealBobManning asked Jayson Tatum about Jaylen Brown’s 🧢 comment, and he responded at length:
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Wisdom just welcomed another chick at approximately seventy-four years of age.
The most elderly documented wild bird on Earth has been breeding offspring since the era of President Eisenhower. Biologists originally placed an identification band on the Laysan albatross back in 1956, a time when she had already reached maturity and was occupying a breeding nest. Almost seventy years after that moment, she arrived back at Midway Atoll in the Pacific Ocean alongside a different mate and produced another egg during the final months of 2024.
Her historic partner, Akeakamai, had gone missing for numerous consecutive seasons. Although these seabirds typically establish permanent, lifelong unions, they possess the ability to choose a replacement companion if their original mate vanishes.
Conservation officers successfully captured footage of Wisdom softly leaning her head against her current mate shortly before he took his place on top of their shared egg.
Broad Peak Disaster: ambition, ego, and the questions that remain after ten deaths
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Unimaginable tragedy on Broad Peak in Pakistan's Karakorum Range:
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This week's guest is Ben Nowack (@bennbuilds), co-founder and CEO of @reflectorbital, one of the first companies building satellites that redirect sunlight from orbit to specific spots on Earth - with the goal of delivering sunlight on demand, 24/7.
Why would you want sunlight 24/7? Agriculture and farming, construction projects, rescue missions, military operations, powering solar panels closer to 100% of the time instead of ~30%, etc.
Ben started Reflect in 2021. He spent the first year in a garage, $60k in credit card debt, before a $350k raise came in. Reflect has now raised more than $35 million - Sequoia led the seed (its first space investment since SpaceX), Lux Capital led the $20M Series A - and launches its first satellite later this year.
We discuss:
- A speech Gwynne Shotwell gave during his tenure at SpaceX that he will never forget
- What he learned while working at SpaceX that he implements at Reflect
- The story of building the actual company and why building hardware is hard
- How they think about vertical integration
- The trillion $ business case for redirecting sunlight
- How he recruits technical talent - what works and what doesn’t
Timestamps:
(0:00) Intro
(1:07) "Rockets Are Cool, But They're Not the Big Money Makers"
(7:00) Lessons from SpaceX: What Ben Took (and Left Behind)
(16:35) The Origin: From High School Fusion Reactors to Reflect Orbital
(25:10) The Fossil Fuel Problem and Why It's So Hard to Beat
(28:37) "By 3 AM You Have a Minimum Viable Financial Model"
(35:44) The Breakthrough: Putting Mirrors in Space
(41:00) Building the First Satellite
(51:03) First Satellite and Seven-Figure Demand Nobody Expected
(57:00) The Constellation Plan: 18 Satellites, Global Coverage
(1:10:00) What It's Like to Order Sunlight
(1:22:00) Why Fashion Designers Build Better Spacecraft Than JWST Engineers
(1:25:36) The 10-Year Vision: Starship, Scale, and Powering the Earth
Horrible news from Everest as two souls lose their lives, bringing to total this year to three. Phura Gyaljen Sherpa, 20, was grandson of the legendary Ang Rita Sherpa, the “Snow Leopard”. And Nepali high-altitude climber and worker Bijaya Ghimire Bishwokarma 34.
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Latest news on Everest from the one and only source @ExplorersWeb
Fed up with waiting, Mingma G of Imagine Nepal has decided to fix the ropes to the summit himself. Late today, the official team agreed to join him.
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A Eurasian widgeon was separated found near lifeless in the Khumbu Icefall. If not for the care of some kind friends, our favorite Everest character might not have survived.
More HERE, Ominous Warnings and Record Crowds on Everest: Is Disaster Looming?: youtu.be/SM1xZi_Oq_U
Nepal has revoked permits to fly cargo drones over the Khumbu Icefall on Everest after a US special envoy visited Base Camp unveiling a US made cargo drone. The drones have become a big part of logistical work, reducing exposure to mountain workers.
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And here we go!
Two runners have arrived in Nepal in an unofficial race to set the Fastest Known Time up Everest without oxygen. Several others will also try a no-O2 climb.
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"Drone me" to the summit of Everest!? Technological innovations are changing the game on the world's highest mountain, where business is king.
Full vid on Everest Mystery: youtu.be/NKKMUvesAmE
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Everest's Biggest Changes in Years Are Happening Right Now youtu.be/NKKMUvesAmE
