This seems very promising for both spaceflight and cancer treatment, if true.
incredible breakthrough: a protein from tardigrades can now protect human cells from radiation.
— vittorio (@IterIntellectus) March 5, 2025
healthier cancer therapies, longer space missions, and real-world longevity treatments are coming.
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The Starship team is go for prop load. Targeting 5:45pm CT for liftoff of Starship’s eighth flight test.
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 3, 2025
The launch webcast will go live ~40 minutes ahead of liftoff https://t.co/Q9HTUSYmtf
[Evening update]
Better luck tomorrow, or if they can’t turn it around that fast, Wednesday. Weather looks better, anyway.
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.
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.
— Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog) March 2, 2025
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
Some highlights. More to come, I’m sure.
I’d like to think that bloggers played some role.
An analysis by Jim Meigs, in which he quotes Yours Truly.
I strongly disagree that SLS/Orion is the fastest way to get back to the Moon. I’ll be discussing that in a study I’ve done for the Reason Foundation that I hope will be published in a week or three. Briefly, we have all the pieces we need to do it quickly, without SLS/Orion, as long as we’re willing to go back to the Apollo levels of risk acceptance. And we’ll have to do that to beat the Chinese.
Thoughts on AI in medicine, from Paul Hsieh.
It turns out that a lot of the “women” who have been hitting me up on LinkedIn (as I suspected) were men, and slaves.
AvWeek has the deets.