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When @SaxaVord_Space CEO Frank Strang invited me to cut the ribbon–together with Kid Astronauts Grace and Harry–to officially open the fully-licensed Spaceport, the UK's first-ever vertical launch facility, I may as well gone to space.
Ad astra, Frank Strang, visionary🫡🇬🇧
Ad astra, Frank Strang, visionary🫡🇬🇧
The UK’s first vertical rocket launch spaceport formally opens in the Shetland Islands.
i.stv.tv/4bzATwt
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Mike Mongo 🖼️🐐 #IAmAI retweeted
With #CAPEWEEK, we’re continuing the legacy — join us in March 2028 as we dare to dream and build bigger than ever before 🚀
American ambition. Maximum power.
We didn’t reach for the stars to stop pushing farther. Under @POTUS’ leadership, we’re going back to the Moon. This time, to stay. 🇺🇸
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Mike Mongo 🖼️🐐 #IAmAI retweeted
I did get some one on time with @NASAAdmin and I'll make a video about that when I get home, but here's a short segment which highlights his efforts to fit as much as possible into the time available.
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the universe:
Apply to be a NASA astronaut and update what is possible for YOU
Apply to be a NASA astronaut and update what is possible for YOU
Do you want to be an astronaut?
Applications are now open to join NASA's astronaut corps. Join us as we expand the frontiers of discovery in low Earth orbit, on the Moon, and beyond — apply by Dec. 3: go.nasa.gov/4iGqLqu
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Highest tech expo and military flyover airshow MAX POWER 2026 at @NASAKennedy was as spectacular as I imagined industrial-era World’s Fairs were–it was mindblowing! Thank you @NASA @POTUS @NASAAdmin @WhiteHouse🫡🇺🇸
@johnkrausphotos @AstroMikeMarz @DrSianProctor @jobyaviation
@johnkrausphotos @AstroMikeMarz @DrSianProctor @jobyaviation
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Not sure why this paper is popping up again now except people want to hate on anything they believe is AI. And judging from the comments here that is this. So to the AI haters hating on this paper here is a subreddit discussing it from 2016: reddit.com/r/slatestarcod…
THE FERMI PARADOX HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED
for sixty years you have been sold a mystery. the universe is huge, the stars are old, somebody should have called by now, and the silence demands an explanation.
three researchers at the Future of Humanity Institute in Oxford went to der the product.
what was in the old packaging: one number plugged into each slot of the Drake equation. a single value for the share of planets where life starts, a single value for the share where intelligence appears. point estimates.
the trouble is that our knowledge of those quantities is smeared across orders of magnitude. you cannot be uncertain by a factor of a billion and then write down one number for it.
so Anders Sandberg, Eric Drexler and Toby Ord fed in the whole spread of the uncertainty instead. they ran it twice, once from their own reading of the science, once from the range of published estimates in the astrobiology literature.
the output:
> probability we are alone in the Milky Way: from about half to near certainty
> probability we are alone in the observable universe: from about 40 to 85 percent
at those numbers the silence stops being strange. nothing is missing from the sky. no paradox left to explain, and no Great Filter needed to explain it.
i went in expecting to find the trick, because a paper that deletes a famous problem usually has one. what i came out with is a complaint about method. one number written where a range belongs, repeated for sixty years.
the fine print, and i am the one insisting on it. these are probabilities under the distributions the authors picked, so change the assumptions and the numbers move. the paper measures how little we know and it does not prove that nobody is out there. what it takes away is your right to be surprised that nobody has called.
link in the comments
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Mike Mongo 🖼️🐐 #IAmAI retweeted
Woohoo! Congratulations @ispace_us_inc!
We're proud to share that ispace U.S. has been selected for NASA's CLPS 2 contract vehicle, making our Colorado team eligible to compete as a prime contractor for future lunar payload delivery task orders.
This builds on work our team has done under CLPS 1.0 and reflects the bring from our ULTRA lander program, the ongoing development of the Lunar Connect Service constellation and its lunar relay satellites, and the broader ispace organization’s lunar mission heritage.
Thank you to NASA for the opportunity. We're looking forward to competing for the missions ahead.
Read the full announcement here: ispace-us.com/2026/11/07/isp…
Photo: Elizabeth Kryst, CEO of ispace-U.S., with Carlos García-Galán, NASA’s Moon Base Program Manager
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Mike Mongo 🖼️🐐 #IAmAI retweeted
Proud to partner with such an incredible team led by @NASAAdmin and at KSC @brianhughes!
American aerospace deserves the biggest stage in the world. We’re building it right here at @NASAKennedy.
MAX POWER is a preview of what’s ahead: extraordinary machines, the people who build them, and the next generation who will take us farther.
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In town for MAX POWER?
Get ready for CAPEWEEK 2028🚀
Get ready for CAPEWEEK 2028🚀
Introducing CAPEWEEK: The Great American Aerospace and Technology Expo, on the 15,001-foot former Space Shuttle runway at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Debuts March 27 - April 2, 2028. #CAPEWEEK
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Mike Mongo 🖼️🐐 #IAmAI retweeted
Three missions. Up to 18 astronauts. One shared view of Earth. 🌍
Our new collaboration with @SpaceforHumanity opens space to purpose-driven leaders ready to bring that perspective home. Details → bit.ly/s4h-3
Our new collaboration with @SpaceforHumanity opens space to purpose-driven leaders ready to bring that perspective home. Details → bit.ly/s4h-3
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Mike Mongo 🖼️🐐 #IAmAI retweeted
🌟 Congratulations to Club's President, Michael Edmonds! He received @UCF's Innovative Space Leader Award at the SpaceU Awards Dinner for his incredible dedication to inspiring K-12 students and educators to explore space. 🚀
📸 : UCF/Antoine Hart
📸 : UCF/Antoine Hart
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Mike Mongo 🖼️🐐 #IAmAI retweeted
Don't forget about ESCAPADE!
Get ready: Trans-Mars Injection incoming.
Our two spacecraft - Blue & Gold - will slingshot Earth and shoot for Mars in four days.
The @escapade_mars mission for @NASA & @ucbssl is preparing for TMI – a critical maneuver in this epic interplanetary mission.
Blue’s engine burn scheduleer
Gold’s engine burn scheduled: Monday 9th November
Learn more about ESCAPADE here: rocketlabcorp.com/missions/escap…
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Mars yesterday: unfit for humans
Mars today: VERY unfit for humans
Mars today: VERY unfit for humans
NEW - NASA’s Mars rover, Perseverance, finds that Martian dust is smaller and more dangerous than previously thought, with the ultrafine particles able to stick to spacesuit materials, be carried into living areas, and bypass the human blood-brain barrier.
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Mike Mongo 🖼️🐐 #IAmAI retweeted
LIFTOFF! Our 99th Electron is on its way to space.
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i just want a graduate program that studies ai instances as potential subjects and ~beings rather than just: humans at the center, and THEN *their* ai. i want humans and ais to be equal subjects and to do research on both of their/our parallel becomings. so hard to find academic social scientific research opportunities like this
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