space
Getting off the planet, and why anybody thinks it matters.
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- EM
Elon Musk quoted
Founded SpaceX in 2002
Our readingPropagating super intelligence to the stars is a great success condition for a biological bootloader
Their wordsPropagating super intelligence to the stars is a great success condition for a biological bootloader
- 9 days earlier
- EM
Elon Musk quoted
Their wordsProduction on the Moon & Mars will accelerate by far more than double every year, until natural limits are encountered
- 11 days earlier
- TL
Tobias Lütke quoted
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify
Their wordsI think it's the most um impressive company on planet earth by um by far. It'll likely go down as the most consequential company of um the age
↗Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuableyoutube.com 22nd of 26 in this recording
- 8 days earlier
- JC
Jack Clark quoted
Co-founder and head of policy at Anthropic
Our readingHow to approach space colonization will become one of the next major topics of human discussion.
Their wordsit seems like the next area of major discussion for humanity will be how to approach space colonization, including beyond the solar system.
↗Import AI 472: DeepMind’s cheating math agents; populist AI policies; and Forethought theorizes a nightwatchmanjack-clark.net 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 6 days earlier
- PG
Paul Graham quoted
Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb
Their wordsOne reason Starcloud has been so successful at fundraising is that it's a bet on launch costs decreasing, and that's like betting on Moore's Law in the 1990s.
- PG
Paul Graham quoted
Their wordsIn a few years, Stoke's reusable launch vehicles are going to be shipping Starcloud's data centers into orbit.
- 1 day earlier
- JC
Jack Clark quoted
Their wordsThis means that space mining is a perfect business opportunity for superintelligences that come online - perhaps by 2033 we will see AI-run asteroid mining corporations, bidding on contracts that human-supervised companies are not willing to pursue, due to risk or complexity.
↗Import AI 471: Why Hugging Face worries me; space mining; FIve Eyes on AIjack-clark.net 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 1 day earlier
- EM
Elon Musk quoted
Their wordsExtending consciousness beyond Earth, ultimately to the stars, is a fundamentally good goal
- EM
Elon Musk quoted
Their wordsExtremely severe extinction events happen every 100M years or so and just switching to sustainable energy will not be enough to stop them. Space satellites to control temperature and massive geo-engineering will be needed or it will be game over.
- 10 days earlier
- MH
Max Hodak quoted
Co-founder and chief executive of Science
Their wordsthe other extreme is if we're serious about exploring the universe and going to the stars, we are going to have to adapt ourselves to that environment. We're not going to export Earth with us everywhere we go.
↗From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodakyoutube.com 16th of 18 in this recording
- 2 days earlier
- EB
Eric Berger quoted
Senior space editor at Ars Technica
Our readingA Chinese crewed landing on the Moon before America returns would be a defeat for the free world.
Their wordsIf China can land humans on the Moon before the United States returns, it will represent a huge geopolitical win.
↗The United States is about to wake up to the threat from China’s space programarstechnica.com 1st of 3 in this piece
- 1 day earlier
- EB
Eric Berger quoted
Their wordsParadoxically, though, there is a growing crunch in launch availability.
↗There’s a huge launch crunch right now, and it will probably get worsearstechnica.com 1st of 4 in this piece
- EB
Eric Berger quoted
Their wordsAnd if things are bad now, there are reasons to believe they may get even worse over the next two to four years.
↗There’s a huge launch crunch right now, and it will probably get worsearstechnica.com 2nd of 4 in this piece
- EB
Eric Berger quoted
Their wordsThe company that is almost exclusively responsible for the dramatic increase in launch availability in the 2020s has signaled that it intends to wind down Falcon 9 operations as quickly as possible in favor of the larger Starship rocket.
↗There’s a huge launch crunch right now, and it will probably get worsearstechnica.com 3rd of 4 in this piece
- EB
Eric Berger quoted
Their wordsIn financial documents, it’s clear that SpaceX views commercial launch as a rounding error compared to revenues from its own satellites in space.
↗There’s a huge launch crunch right now, and it will probably get worsearstechnica.com 4th of 4 in this piece
- 3 months earlier
- CH
Casey Handmer quoted
Physicist, formerly at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Our readingStarship will bring the price of low Earth orbit down to roughly a hundred dollars a kilogram.
Their wordsStarship promises a near future with launch costs to LEO of perhaps $100/kg.
↗How to build a lunar mass drivercaseyhandmer.wordpress.com 1st of 2 in this piece
- CH
Casey Handmer quoted
Their wordsAt even $500/kg, launch cost is only 5% of the total satellite deployment cost, so a lunar mass driver is unlikely to drastically improve the economics of space-based AI, by reducing launch costs.
↗How to build a lunar mass drivercaseyhandmer.wordpress.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 3 months earlier
- CH
Casey Handmer quoted
Our reading · no longer heldManufacturing and mining in space will never be lucrative enough to pay for human settlement of space.
No longer holdsToday, exploding demand for power-intensive AI applications provides enough of an upside to justify producing components in space, providing the economic engine necessary to justify and fund the trillions of dollars necessary to build and sustain space factories.
SaidToday, exploding demand for power-intensive AI applications provides enough of an upside to justify producing components in space, providing the economic engine necessary to justify and fund the trillions of dollars necessary to build and sustain space factories.
↗Space AI: I guess we’re doing Moon factories nowcaseyhandmer.wordpress.com 1st of 3 in this piece
- CH
Casey Handmer quoted
Their wordsStarship can lift orbital power generation to about 100 GW with perhaps 10,000 launches per year, or about one per hour.
↗Space AI: I guess we’re doing Moon factories nowcaseyhandmer.wordpress.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 3 months earlier
- CH
Casey Handmer quoted
Our readingA Chinese crewed landing on the Moon before America returns would be a defeat for the free world.
Their wordsI am far from certain that NASA can regain anything like the vigor necessary to respond decisively to the Chinese threat, but I am determined that the free people of Earth not live under a Red Moon
↗NASA’s Orion Space Capsule Is Flaming Garbagecaseyhandmer.wordpress.com 1st of 4 in this piece
- CH
Casey Handmer quoted
Our readingOrion is too heavy for any rocket that exists to carry it to low lunar orbit and bring it home.
Their wordsEven for $5.2b per launch, Orion is so overweight that there does not exist a booster nor an upper stage that can launch it to Low Lunar Orbit and return it to Earth.
↗NASA’s Orion Space Capsule Is Flaming Garbagecaseyhandmer.wordpress.com 2nd of 4 in this piece
- 7 weeks earlier
- CH
Casey Handmer quoted
Our readingNine tenths of the cost of Mars Sample Return comes from a single planetary-protection requirement.
Their wordssomething like 90% of the complexity and cost of MSR is driven by a requirement that the samples “break the chain” on the way home
↗How to get samples back from Marscaseyhandmer.wordpress.com
- 4 weeks earlier
- CH
Casey Handmer quoted
Their wordsone square meter of silicon like like the thickness of a sheet of paper floating in space that's a future human form that's that's my final form
↗China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmeryoutube.com 23rd of 24 in this recording
- 2 months earlier
- CH
Casey Handmer quoted
Their wordsIt is clear, however, that today’s NASA is but a shadow of its former self.
↗NASA Is Worth Savingcaseyhandmer.wordpress.com 1st of 2 in this piece
- CH
Casey Handmer quoted
Our readingNASA is worth saving.
Their wordsI believe NASA is worth saving.
↗NASA Is Worth Savingcaseyhandmer.wordpress.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 5 weeks earlier
- JL
Janna Levin quoted
Theoretical cosmologist
Their wordsSo I think we’re very attached to imagining creatures like us, that manipulate technology, and I think we have to be way more imaginative if we’re going to really take seriously life in the universe.
↗Janna Levin: Black Holes, Wormholes, Aliens, Paradoxes & Extra Dimensions | Lex Fridman Podcast #468youtube.com 17th of 24 in this recording
- 4 months earlier
- AF
Adam Frank quoted
Professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester
Their wordsSo, trying to establish a base on Mars it's going to be so hard that it is not even going to be close to being self-sufficient for a couple a century at least. So, it's not like a backup plan now, we have to solve the problem of climate change, we have to deal with that.
↗Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #455youtube.com 11th of 24 in this recording
- AF
Adam Frank quoted
Their wordsI don't think it's necessarily a bad idea to have your head below the grass. The people who advocate like, "Oh yeah, we should be sending powerful messages that are easily detectable into interstellar space." I'm like, "Why would you?" Because we just don't know, I'm not going to say they are warlike. I'm not going to say they're not warlike, I have no idea.
↗Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #455youtube.com 18th of 24 in this recording
- 3 weeks earlier
- CH
Casey Handmer quoted
Their wordsCurrent PhD students will be nearing retirement by the time these missions fly.
↗It Is Time To Build The Monster Scopecaseyhandmer.wordpress.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
- CH
Casey Handmer quoted
Their wordsThe same as JWST, only 150 times wider and 22000 times more sensitive.
↗It Is Time To Build The Monster Scopecaseyhandmer.wordpress.com 3rd of 3 in this piece