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Astranis CEO John Gedmark calls space elevators the ultimate civilizational flex: if aliens come and find us and we don't have our space elevator up and running yet, that's embarrassing "I like space elevators. This is the idea that originally came from Arthur C. Clarke, who also was the...

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@Gedmark so the pitch is build a cable to space or risk looking bad in front of aliens

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@Gedmark lol aliens are teleporting.

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@Gedmark By Gemini

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Wall Street Mav

98,990 views • 5 months ago

Elon Musk reveals why he believes the cheapest place to put AI will be space within 36 months "The availability of energy is the issue. Everywhere outside of China, electrical output is more or less flat. The output of chips is growing exponentially, but the output of electricity is flat" "How are you going to turn the chips on? Magical power sources? Magical electricity fairies?" "Space is really a regulatory play. It's harder to build on land than it is in space. It's harder to scale on the ground than it is to scale in space" "It's always sunny in space. You don't have a day-night cycle, seasonality, clouds, or an atmosphere. The atmosphere alone results in about a 30% loss of energy" "Any given solar panel can do about five times more power in space than on the ground. You also avoid the cost of having batteries to carry you through the night" "My prediction is that it will be by far the cheapest place to put AI. It will be space in 36 months or less. Maybe 30 months" "The only place you can really scale is space. Once you start thinking in terms of what percentage of the Sun's power you are harnessing, you realize you have to go to space" "Solar cells are already farcically cheap. In China they're around 25-30 cents a watt. Now put them in space, and it's not five times cheaper, it's 10 times cheaper because you don't need any batteries" "The moment your cost of access to space becomes low, by far the cheapest and most scalable way to generate tokens is space. It's not even close" "Those who have lived in software land don't realize they're about to have a hard lesson in hardware. It's actually very difficult to build power plants"
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Elon Musk reveals why he believes the cheapest place to put AI will be space within 36 months "The availability of energy is the issue. Everywhere outside of China, electrical output is more or less flat. The output of chips is growing exponentially, but the output of electricity is flat" "How are you going to turn the chips on? Magical power sources? Magical electricity fairies?" "Space is really a regulatory play. It's harder to build on land than it is in space. It's harder to scale on the ground than it is to scale in space" "It's always sunny in space. You don't have a day-night cycle, seasonality, clouds, or an atmosphere. The atmosphere alone results in about a 30% loss of energy" "Any given solar panel can do about five times more power in space than on the ground. You also avoid the cost of having batteries to carry you through the night" "My prediction is that it will be by far the cheapest place to put AI. It will be space in 36 months or less. Maybe 30 months" "The only place you can really scale is space. Once you start thinking in terms of what percentage of the Sun's power you are harnessing, you realize you have to go to space" "Solar cells are already farcically cheap. In China they're around 25-30 cents a watt. Now put them in space, and it's not five times cheaper, it's 10 times cheaper because you don't need any batteries" "The moment your cost of access to space becomes low, by far the cheapest and most scalable way to generate tokens is space. It's not even close" "Those who have lived in software land don't realize they're about to have a hard lesson in hardware. It's actually very difficult to build power plants"

Jaynit

8,361,022 views • 4 months ago

Tom Holland says “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” wouldn’t be half the movie it is without director Destin Daniel Cretton “I think we can all agree that Destin nailed it.” “We are so lucky to have Destin as the captain of our ship. You know, he came into this process when the movie was going in a hundred different directions, and really what we needed was someone to come in and focus us all on one idea.” “And what's so amazing about Destin is that he's able to do that and focus on this idea of what is life like for a young person who is alone.” “And that is something that people deal with all across the world. It doesn't sacrifice the action, it doesn't sacrifice the scope and scale of the movie.” “So if we didn't have Destin, this movie wouldn't be half of what it is.”
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Tom Holland says “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” wouldn’t be half the movie it is without director Destin Daniel Cretton “I think we can all agree that Destin nailed it.” “We are so lucky to have Destin as the captain of our ship. You know, he came into this process when the movie was going in a hundred different directions, and really what we needed was someone to come in and focus us all on one idea.” “And what's so amazing about Destin is that he's able to do that and focus on this idea of what is life like for a young person who is alone.” “And that is something that people deal with all across the world. It doesn't sacrifice the action, it doesn't sacrifice the scope and scale of the movie.” “So if we didn't have Destin, this movie wouldn't be half of what it is.”

agim𓍯

460,779 views • 2 months ago

We might have started with rockets, but today we also develop satellites and subsystems that enable some of the most ambitious missions in space. You could help us build them: #MoreThanJustRocketsInThisLab
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We might have started with rockets, but today we also develop satellites and subsystems that enable some of the most ambitious missions in space. You could help us build them: #MoreThanJustRocketsInThisLab

Rocket Lab

56,158 views • 3 years ago