Category Archives: Technology and Society

incredible breakthrough: a protein from tardigrades can now protect human cells from radiation.

healthier cancer therapies, longer space missions, and real-world longevity treatments are coming.

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— vittorio (@IterIntellectus) March 5, 2025

Business, Space, Technology and Society

15 Minutes To Go

March 3, 2025 Rand Simberg 23 Comments

The Starship team is go for prop load. Targeting 5:45pm CT for liftoff of Starship’s eighth flight test.

The launch webcast will go live ~40 minutes ahead of liftoff https://t.co/Q9HTUSYmtf
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 3, 2025

[Evening update]

Better luck tomorrow, or if they can’t turn it around that fast, Wednesday. Weather looks better, anyway.

Business, Political Commentary, Space, Space Science, Technology and Society

Congrats To Firefly

March 2, 2025 Rand Simberg 7 Comments

It’s the first successful landing on the Moon of a private company.

But Max Polyakov was screwed over by the Deep State.

Next up: The next flight of Starship/SH tomorrow afternoon.

Business, Mathematics, Technology and Society

Cameras Versus Lidar/Radar

March 2, 2025 Rand Simberg 5 Comments

Why Elon dropped lidar for FSD.

The reason why Tesla FSD performs better with just computer vision than systems that have LIDAR and radar is a bit counter intuitive. Allow me to try to explain.

In the early days of self-driving, people thought if you built a really accurate model of what’s happening around the… pic.twitter.com/EY8nNa55fj
— Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog) March 2, 2025