Future Stories

SpaceX now has 17 Starship launch pads under development. Those 17 pads will eventually have a combined launch capacity of 15,000+ launches per year Including Starbase, Louisiana, @SpaceX now has 17 Starship launch pads under development. Those 17 pads will eventually have a combined launch capacity of 15,000+ launches per year, more than twice the ... Read more

Did the orbital test of the IVO Quantum Drive produce a real thrust signal in orbit—or did an ambitious experiment leave us with an intriguing but unresolved anomaly? Physicist and author Dr. Mike McCulloch, originator of Quantised Inertia, describes the IVO Ltd.’s attempt to test a propellantless electric-drive concept in space. Mike developed Quantized Inertia ... Read more

SpaceX, in partnership with Nvidia, have designed a space-optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 system for launch to orbit in Q4 next year, with significant scale in 2028. The design is significantly simpler, lower cost, denser and lighter than a traditional rack. SpaceX, in partnership with Nvidia, has designed a space-optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 system for launch ... Read more

Thomas Sowell has made many deep insights into humanity and the history of society. Thomas Sowell, born 1930, is an economist trained at Chicago. He was a Marxist until his mid-twenties, and cured of it not by theory but by a summer working inside the U.S. Department of Labor. He watched the agency’s institutional interest ... Read more

An AI data center needs enormous amounts of electricity. Building power plants is expensive, but it gets cheaper per unit as you build bigger. A developer could deliberately build more generation than the data center needs, then sell the surplus at lower cost into the surrounding city. If the surplus is cheap enough, residents’ bills ... Read more

Key points in rapid AI progress, A secretive “ox alpha” model (widely suspected to be the latest Chinese GLM open-source model) shows strong coding gains (~80% on a tough benchmark vs. the 60s for Claude/GPT-style models). Nvidia + a new “harness” hit a perfect 100% on ARC-AGI-3. Intelligence-density progress Chinese Qwen-style 27B models already match ... Read more

The Moderna breakthrough to reduce the re-occurrence of cancer is just the beginning. It is evidence that claims from the leaders of AI like Dario of Anthropic and Demis Hassabis that AI could all disease within ten years or that almost all cancer will be eliminated will become true. Those who are wondering what benefits ... Read more

Tesla Cybercab will launch in 12 days. They will start putting the Cybercabs into the robotaxi fleets in Austin and elsewhere. We will see what other announcements will be made on the rollout schedules and plans. pic.twitter.com/yChZnEzwZf — Tesla (@Tesla) August 22, 2026

Elon indicates the will catch of the SpaceX Starship with the tower will be in a few months. First reflight of the ship will be either end of this year or early next. That will be a fork in the road of history for consciousness reaching the stars. Looks like we will probably catch the ... Read more