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Keeping up with the Kardashevs
🌏 ☀️ 🌌 Most people won’t get it… but if we make it to Season IV, the appeal is Universal!
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📕 The Philosopher in the Valley + bookmark
It is not especially well written and can’t even clearly describe what Palantir does (perhaps because it kept changing in the early days in what sounded like a chain of consulting projects). It is better as a biography of Karp and Thiel, and I’ll share the best bits below if you want the TLDR; But,… Read More
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Original Star Wars Death Star Surface Section & TurboLaser Canon
And Video as I reimagine the boss battle from the first Star Wars movie. This is the largest remaining surface section from the Death Star made by ILM for the final rebel attack sequence. It was a gift from visual effects artist and Episode IV Chief model maker, Lorne Peterson. Original Death Star "low altitude"… Read More
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Red Two X-wing Starfighter — from ILM
And Video as I reimagine the boss battle from the first Star Wars movie. Built from the Original Molds, a 1:24-scale static miniature X-wing starfighter model constructed of resin with vacuform styrene exterior components, featuring brass-tubing laser cannons, a resin miniature pilot seated in the cockpit, and the dome of an astromech R2 unit positioned… Read More
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The Latest From Mythic
Mythic is shipping AI chips that do in-memory analog compute, as does the human cortex No memory bottleneck as there is no data movement. 8-bit multiply & add in a single flash transistor. (no digital chip can ever match that) New website today: mythic.ai
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Profiles of the Future — Arthur C. Clarke, 1962
Prophesy from the year after the first human spaceflight: “In the long history of Man, ours is the first age with no new frontiers on land or sea, and many of our troubles stem from this fact.” (p.94) “The road to the stars has been discovered none too soon. Civilization cannot exist without new frontiers;… Read More
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Signing Xona’s first in-house GPS Satellite build (called Pulsar)
Xona is building a constellation of GPS sats in LEO to 100x the power and resiliency of existing GPS systems, even enabling it to work indoors. Xona has built their next gen Pulsar satellites in house, and I signed the first one (which will launch with SpaceX in October). A constellation of 258 of these… Read More
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the first GPS payload + antenna from Xona
A fantastic new addition to the space museum at work. You can see a standard L-band antenna array in the outer ring of 12 squares and the next-gen C-band array in the inner circle of 5. Xona is building a constellation of GPS sats in LEO to 100x the power and resiliency of existing GPS… Read More
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XONA Pulsar Wingspan
At HQ today. Xona has built their next gen Pulsar satellites in house. The wall art shows a 1:1 scale of Pulsar with the solar panel wings unfolded. A constellation of 258 of these satellites costs less than one legacy GPS sat today, and they are 100x as powerful.
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SpaceX Water
A Reusable Metal Fuel Tank… for Humans Bastrop TX is the site of the enormous alien dreadnought mass manufacturing Starlink phased array antennas and terminals. We just had a board meeting there
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