“@PPathole @Erdayastronaut @dauqhx @universal_sci Mars is easier than the moon for propellant production. Could get going with only one ship, where the ship itself is the propellant plant. Needs to make ~2 tons/day.”
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“@Erdayastronaut @dauqhx @universal_sci Starship propellant is ~78% oxygen, so an O2 plant on the moon would be enough. Otherwise, we could brute-force it with tankers to low Earth orbit. That’s probably faster.”
“@dauqhx @universal_sci There’s a lot of frozen CO2 & H2O on Mars. Heating the planet will densify the atmosphere. It’s solvable.”
“@universal_sci Perhaps one day there will be an ocean on the northern part of Mars”
“@PPathole @universal_sci This might sting a little …”
“@universal_sci Also, there could be long period comets that intersect Earth right now. We just haven’t observed them during humanity’s (very short) recorded history. Comet S-L 9 punched a roughly Earth-sized hole in Jupiter. https://t.co/ne7DM0YAXX https://www.britannica.com/topic/Comet-Shoemaker-Levy-9”
“@universal_sci Pretty much”
“@universal_sci Asteroid impact risk is well understood, but not comets. Those worry me.”
“As a reminder, I’m in *favor* of universal basic income”
“@PPathole @IheartTesla For sure. This is both great & terrifying. Everything we’ve ever sensed or thought has been electrical signals. The early universe was just a soup of quarks & leptons. How did a very small piece of the Universe start to think of itself as sentient?”
“@waitbutwhy It’s a tough one. That’s why we should expand the scope & scale of consciousness — to understand the nature of the Universe.”
“Who controls the memes, controls the Universe”
“If heat death is the end of the universe, it really is all about the journey”
“@universal_sci @joerogan For real”
“@ABauerle5 A great mystery of the universe”
“@FxzzOnTheBeat Virality of C19 is overstated due to conflating diagnosis date with contraction date & over-extrapolating exponential growth, which is never what happens in reality. Keep extrapolating & virus will exceed mass of known universe!”
“@Universe_SkyArt @TwitterSupport I just sent a note to Twitter to clarify that posting SpaceX videos is fine by us and we paid for rights to Bowie song for the Falcon Heavy launch”
“@universal_sci Matter is extremely fluffy!”
“@Alejandro_DebH @macshlibber @SpaceflightNow Advancing humanity’s understanding of the Universe is a fundamental motivator for SpaceX! Starship can put giant 🔭 in orbit & on moon. With an occluder, could image 🌏 in other star systems.”
“@universal_sci The sun is green (peak photon frequency)”
“@justpaulinelol @universal_sci It certainly does”
“@universal_sci True”
“@slashdot Personally, I think the universe looks great for 12 billion years, let alone 13.8”
“@justpaulinelol @Dc_Nawfel @universal_sci A Speedraptor is a Velociraptor with no sense of direction (that’s how you can them apart)”
“@justpaulinelol @Dc_Nawfel @universal_sci This is technically a Speedraptor”
“@Dc_Nawfel @universal_sci v^2/r is fun haha”
“@universal_sci Makes it clear that you can only sense acceleration, not velocity”
“@universal_sci Wow”
“@slashdot Because our universe is actually a microverse in a miniverse. We probably just power someone’s brake lights. https://t.co/0jgPXfsRpJ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JtgQskSb4QY”
“@nichegamer In a million years, the Universe will go from being 13.772 to 13.773 billion years old. Like tears in the rain …”
“@universal_sci We are very tiny”
“Universe is big, but rendering complexity is not”
“@klod_ua @universal_sci Some challenges with ice formation in the cryogenic propellant prevalves. Hopefully overcome soon.”
“@universal_sci What could possibly go wrong?”
“If heat death will be inevitable end of Universe, it actually *is* all about journey 🤔”
“@universal_sci No, we’re just going to accelerate BFR”
“@ckharrison10 @yousuck2020 Comes with free towels. Nothing more useful in the entire Universe.”
“It is unknown whether we are the only civilization currently alive in the observable universe, but any chance that we are is added impetus for extending life beyond Earth”
“@vplikeTRUMP @jorendewachter @xJawz @joerogan @MazzucatoM Also think there should be a universal basic income that doesn’t change even if you get a job. Productivity should be rewarded.”
“@Jack_Frodo Universal income will be necessary over time if AI takes over most human jobs”
“@joerogan @Off_thewalls @MKBHD Thanks! Have heard universally great things about your podcasts.”
“@_iitzBrendon Elon University is a real place”
“@atlasobscura A reminder of the youth of our 10,000 year (to be generous) civilization. We are not even a flash in the pan compared to the 4,500,000,000 year age of Earth. I won't even bother mentioning the age of the Universe.”
“@gregbettinelli @Bill_Gross On University Ave, above the old bakery”
“If heat death of the universe is the destination, it really is all about the journey https://t.co/icmkmMKhvj https://t.co/0JmKUYAFRq https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question”
“Interesting to think of physics as a set of compression algorithms for the universe. That's basically what formulas are.”
“The universe is really, really big https://t.co/4j3jvIaqpe https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=udAL48P5NJU”
““@eirene_inc: “The universe is prob littered w/ the 1-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic http://t.co/Bp6592r9bH” http://tmblr.co/ZQDhNyr7HKoB”
