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SpaceX will attempt to catch both the Super Heavy booster and Starship on the upcoming flight.
If both are successful, it will mark the first time that all parts of an orbital rocket return to Earth intact.
This is the critical breakthrough needed to make life multiplanetary.
More than a dozen flight tests and years of development, with countless hours worked by SpaceX engineers and technicians, all come down to this: the first orbital Starship launch carrying advanced Starlink satellites bound for space.
Watch “Go For Orbit” and experience the moments behind flying the most ambitious Starship mission yet
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Everyone should read this book to understand what is happening NOW.
A complete and total made up panic based on an imaginary problem.
Like the Satanic Panic in the 80s that sent real innocent people to jail for thirty years over mass hysteria, people keep ratcheting up the rhetoric over a completely made up problem (satanists invading America then and AI will kill is all today!) to more insane levels and what we get will be damage to our economy and freedom that will be very hard to undo.
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We’re in orbit! And just made European history: This is the first time a privately developed rocket reached orbit from continental Europe; and a testament to the dedication, expertise, and teamwork of everyone involved.
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Did you know that humanity has never launched a spacecraft to another star? That is about to change! We have created a non-profit to attempt to send humanity’s 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿… and we need your help!
We have formed non-profit The @FermiExplorer Mission with the goal of launching a minimum viable spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system, leaving in 3 years and arriving in around 80,000 years. We hope it will be both the first spacecraft to leave Earth for another star, and the last to arrive, as per this concept video!
The mission is intended to make the idea of interstellar travel real, and to encourage more people to confront one of humanity’s biggest unanswered questions when we look beyond our planet: "Where is everybody?" (the Fermi Paradox)
The mission has four high-level objectives:
- Aim: To launch the first spacecraft to another star. It should get at least 99% of the way to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, within 80,000 years.
- Payload: It should have at least a 1kg, 10x10x10 cm payload.
- Schedule: It should launch before the end of 2029
- Cost: It should cost less than $15M to design, build, launch, and operate.
The mission was planned with the help of the folks at @astrodigitalgeo, @MattGialich and the folks at @AstroForge, and @alexwg+@matthew_pines physical AI lab PSI, who devised the final mission profile. The mission will be executed by full-time program manager @GarrettJameson, who joins us after 10 years as a US Air Force Officer, in collaboration with a US bus manufacturing partner that will be selected over the coming months.
We will need your help to complete the mission, so if the idea of the mission excites you, please check out the Fermi Explorer website in the comments to find out more about why we are doing the mission and how to get involved!
Thanks to London Studio @ZeroOneCreative and @ashkan01C for producing the concept video 🙏🙏
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FSD Supervised reduces major crashes vs manual Tesla driving on every road class, across 3 billion kilometers in 2025 – highway 45%, arterial 69%, city 50%, local 40%
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We have designated ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine and Reddit and Roblox as Very Large Online Platforms under the Digital Services Act.
They now have four months to comply with additional DSA obligations.
More: link.europa.eu/8bmk3M
#DSA
ALT “Graphic with a purple background and yellow EU stars. Text reads: ‘ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox designated under the Digital Services Act.’ The European Commission logo appears in the bottom right.”
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Imagine celebrating that ChatGPT Search has become huge in Europe because it means you can finally regulate it. And no, this isn't a parody account from the EU Commission. They’re serious.
ChatGPT Search now reaches 159 million monthly users in the EU. Europe has failed to build anything remotely comparable.
So the European Commission proudly announces that ChatGPT is now large enough to face even more regulation.
This image perfectly captures European AI policy. If any of you have ever read Franz Kafka’s *The Trial*: this goes far beyond that.
We have designated ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine and Reddit and Roblox as Very Large Online Platforms under the Digital Services Act.
They now have four months to comply with additional DSA obligations.
More: link.europa.eu/8bmk3M
#DSA
ALT “Graphic with a purple background and yellow EU stars. Text reads: ‘ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox designated under the Digital Services Act.’ The European Commission logo appears in the bottom right.”
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Bei sowas könnte ich schreien. Es ist einfach so verdammt unehrlich.
Jetzt empört sich die CDU darüber, dass das SPD geführte Ministerium nicht schnell genug dafür sorgt, dass per Haftbefehl Gesuchte keine Grundsicherung mehr kassieren, dabei war es die CDU (gemeinsam mit allen anderen Parteien) die den AfD-Antrag, der GENAU DAS zum Ziel hatte, DIESES Jahr abgelehnt hat.
Und heute spielt man plötzlich den Empörten. Erbärmlich. Peinlich. Lächerlich.
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Versteht das einer? Da kommt ein Meilenstein in der Geschichte der Menschheit: selbstfahrende Autos, die tatsächlich sicherer sind als Menschen. Wie es einige Sci-Fi-Filme gezeigt haben. Europäische Politiker tun so, als wäre das nichts Besonderes und nur Spielerei, enthalten Millionen Europäern diese Technologie vor und promoten lieber Konzepte und Pilotprojekte einheimischer Hersteller, die gerne das Rad neu erfinden.
Wenn mir nochmal einer kommt und sagt, Europa will Leader in Technologie XY werden, lache ich nur noch. Europa ist nur noch Leader in Regulationen – mehr kann dieser Kontinent dank engstirniger Politiker und Organisationen, die ihre Daseinsberechtigung jedem aufdrücken müssen, nicht.
Würde es tatsächlich um Sicherheit und Menschen gehen, würde der Rest Ländern wie Dänemark, Holland und Belgien folgen. @BMV @ChristianHirte @EU_Commission @SteffenBilger
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Peter is not correct about me in this case.
I have always known that dangers from Earth will also pose dangers to Mars. Obviously so. However, the immense difficulty of traveling to Mars means that there is a much higher likelihood of mitigating risks originating from Earth.
A clear example of major risk reduction would be a deadly pandemic. Since it takes 6 months to reach Mars, there is an automatic 6 month quarantine!
Even traveling at the speed of light, a deadly computer virus or AI attack can potentially be stopped due to Mars being ~4 to ~20 light-minutes from Earth.
This doesn’t mean that a Mars civilization eliminates all risk, but it absolutely greatly reduces the risk of consciousness being extinguished.
Moreover, Mars is a stepping stone to extending consciousness broadly within our solar system and ultimately to millions of stars within our galaxy, which would extend the probable lifespan of consciousness as we know it by many orders of magnitude.
That said, what I personally find most motivating is not the risk reduction aspect of extending life beyond Earth, but rather the inspiring nature of exploration and being out there among the stars!
Perhaps we will meet aliens or find the remains of long-dead civilizations that lasted millions of years …
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Eigentlich wollte ich euch das heute in einem Interview mit heise erzählen. Leider - wie ironisch - hat die Chefredaktion kurz vor Veröffentlichung schiss bekommen. Deshalb findet ihr meine Antworten und paar Erklärungen zur Lex-Wallraff in meinem Blog:
lilithwittmann.medium.com/he…
