Phil Metzger’s top 20:
🧵 1/ Here are the 20 things I’m watching in 2026 as potential disruptors of the space industry (positive & negative). They include things outside the space industry that may have oversized impact inside the space industry.
— Phil Metzger (@DrPhiltill) January 1, 2026
First item on the list:
1. Declining launch costs and… pic.twitter.com/2RtFM68Psu
A clarion call, if we are to not be defeated by China:
I know some people think I only post silly videos and make ridiculous comments.
— Sovey (@SoveyX) January 2, 2026
I joined this platform to write long form articles.
Unfortunately, no one reads more than 280 characters. https://t.co/nsqtmNXkcq
The Economist has discovered El Segundo, including its history with SpaceX. It’s a primary reason I haven’t abandoned California yet.
Patriots should not fight for it.
Yes.
Nothing to see here…but remember, the greatest threat is from white supremacists!
[Update a few minutes later]
Prepare for the coming storm. All LEOs should read this. Let’s hope that Kurt Schlichter wasn’t prescient with his novels.
The political gloves are off now. The left is being openly accused of promoting, deliberately or through idealistic ignorance, an deal of mass Third World migration into the West in exchange for electoral gain.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) November 28, 2025
The replacement vote idea has gone from taboo in polite conversation…
…exposed.
I wonder what, if anything, Elon will do about this?
Yes. It’s time (long past time, IMO) to move them from the Air Force to the Army. They’re really just very long-range artillery. Get the USAF out of both the missile and space business and get it to focus on aviation.
…and the right to repair.
It’s a complicated issue. I wonder how much this issue is going to bleed over into space hardware?
…you should remember today.
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At precisely 11:11 a.m. on Veterans Day, November 11, the sun shines in perfect alignment with the Anthem Veterans Memorial in Anthem, Arizona. pic.twitter.com/88E80aSkTG
— James Lucas (@JamesLucasIT) November 11, 2025
Both my parents were veterans of WW II. Very few of that generation remain with us, and that war, the greatest one in history, is passing from living memory.