SpaceX just launched 37 Planet satellites, including their first hyperspectral bird, Tanager-1 🦚
Imagine if you could see the world beyond the RGB detectors of your retina. Most birds see 4 spectral bands to our 3. Tanager sees 400.
Grok2 called Tanager the Space Peacock — a… https://t.co/lR8qVGQnGw
Technology accelerates, and we catch up… after a lag.
Just 2.75 years ago, when I started playing with AI-generated art, I was mesmerized by the examples below… And they seem so crude today.
Here are the #Grok2 renders of the same prompts… perpetual future shock, again… https://t.co/aamRZnnAbshttps://t.co/r1P86DzgXq
I find that Grok 2 does a better job at summarizing the news than MSM and a better job at biographies than LinkedIn.
And a decent render of my wife at Burning Man ’24 🙂
Thanks @xAI and @ElonMusk https://t.co/AqcbvKJkPw
Music makes memories 💫
DJs on a plane for a cosmic bday. Starting with CRSTO in Houston
► https://t.co/ETCcw7l2eG
then the Nordic’s Be Svendsen and Crussen in flight
► https://t.co/mHLjmqHnYZ
Crussen played the sunset + sunrise sets he loves — enabled by an eclipse. Enjoy! https://t.co/NJzncC53OD
There’s a podcast on collecting space artifacts…
if you really want to geek out.
I reflect on the first 15 years as a collector:
https://t.co/CvBq1SEfS4
The LEGO Lunar Rover
folding up like origami to fit in a bay of the Lunar Module. I noticed several tools that reproduce the Apollo artifacts I have at work:
1) Apollo 16 Rock Scoop — used for three days on the moon. From Charlie Duke: https://t.co/KaIGdN9QDa
2) Traverse… https://t.co/UzbcKWv0ui
The NASA Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle
The latest from LEGO is a bit of an engineering marvel, like the original EVs on the moon. A peek inside… https://t.co/KtA2NtGfln
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