Found the engineer.

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My best guess is that people browsing /all see “Elon Musk” in the title and think “Elon is bad, therefore this post is bad”.

Looks great! You could probably even squeeze in a semicolon, square brackets, and curly braces.

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Thanks for sharing! That was a wild and tightly-edited ride. Great music too.

I’d seen this before, but was happy to reread it for gems like this:

“You know how when you slap or flap meat it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat.”

Such a beautiful description of the human voice.

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Falcon booster have become routine. Over 300 booster landings, and over 3 years since a landing attempt failed. An impresssive success streak, and still amazing to watch each time.

If this technology takes off, could we tile the Sahara with solar panels? It is close to the equator, and it seems like it might be one of the ecosystems which would be least impacted by the addition of solar panels.

It will take nearly 10,000 miles of cable for four offshore transmission lines—far more than existing suppliers could serve up. So Morrish started a cable-supply company to build a factory, with a tower taller than the Washington Monument, in which colossal cables will be lowered as they are coated in insulation.

The factory’s construction near the Scottish village of Fairlie has been delayed several times. Locals are doubtful it will happen.

“It’s a nice area, a scenic area, and you’re going to build a huge factory running 24/7?” said Rita Holmes, a longtime Fairlie resident.

Maybe it’s just the infrastructure nerd in me, but a giant tower which produces undersea cables for distributing renewable energy sounds like a cool tourist attraction. They could put big windows on the tower so people can see the cables being made.

Are telomeres considered to be a “cause” of aging, or just a “hallmark”?