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SpaceX Should Be Able to Try to Launch Starship Tomorrow

NASASpaceflight’s said the bottom line is for SpaceX to say ‘good for Thursday. Based upon was their analysis, NSF was saying that after today’s successful pre-flight test on Booster 20, SpaceX is now in a position to green-light Thursday as the next launch attempt. The test went well enough that SpaceX should declare it good ... Read more
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Elon Musk APR Energy Could Beat Bloom Energy by 2028-2029?

Can APR Energy and Elon Musk out-deliver Bloom on gigawatts by 2028–2029. Yes, if the in-house hot section qualifies on schedule. That single materials milestone, not capital and not willingness to pay, is what the whole trajectory turns on. It is exactly the kind of first-principles metallurgy problem SpaceX has beaten before. However, it is ... Read more

HBM4 and Fab Limits Prevent 1,000 Vera Rubin Racks Per Day in 2026 or 2027

NVIDIA Vera Rubin is the company’s next-generation rack-scale AI platform (successor to Grace Blackwell), optimized for agentic AI workloads. It delivers up to 10x higher agentic throughput / tokens per megawatt compared to Blackwell, with major gains in efficiency, NVLink scaling, and memory bandwidth. NVIDIA announced full production ramp at GTC Taipei on June 1, ... Read more

Grok Can Now Do Way More With Natural Conversation

The big upgrade is that Grok now controls real car functions through natural conversation. Here’s what you can do Phone Calls & Media “Call John” “Play my workout playlist” “Play something upbeat” Vehicle Controls “Set temperature to 72°” or “Turn on the AC” “Make it cooler” “Open the glovebox” Ask Your Tesla “What’s my current ... Read more

What Are the Sources of Sports Performance Improvements

How has sport performance changed and what are the sources of improvement? Training is the engine for improving world record sport performance. Wearables largely makes the engine run more efficiently rather than adding independent gains. Better training and sports science remain the dominant long-term driver of elite performance — the core of “individual excellence.” New ... Read more

World Record Mile Record Could Be Under 3:42 With Upgraded Track Surfaces

The world-renowned athletic tracks installed for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the resurfacing was spearheaded by Mondo S.p.A.. They installed their state-of-the-art Mondotrack EI (Ellipse Impulse) at the Stade de France. If the world record mile run had the same conditions but had the most up to date track surface then the world ... Read more

Nature Needs Mathematics for Its Rigorous Description But is Computation at the Root of Nature

Feynman’s made a lecture and book that mathematics is needed to describe nature. It (in The Relation of Mathematics to Physics) is descriptive and he is slightly awestruck. The fundamental laws turn out to be statable in mathematics, and there’s no obvious reason they had to be. It’s the same puzzle Wigner named the “unreasonable ... Read more