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Preventing, Mitigating and Recovering from a Kessler Syndrome

The European Space Agency and ClearSpace of Switzerland are targeting 2026 for a debris removal mission, in which a long-discarded payload adapter, at right in this illustration, will be grappled by a ClearSpace-made spacecraft equipped with an ESA-developed robotic arm. A Kessler Syndrome cascade is something that would play out over the course of decades ... Read more
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SpaceX Patent Makes Low Earth Orbit Direct to Cell Far More Efficient

SpaceX Starlink Direct-to-Cell aims to connect billions of existing smartphones to LEO satellites. No hardware modification required. No special SIM card. T-Mobile’s beta already delivers SMS to unmodified phones via Starlink. But scaling to full voice and data service demands solving a hidden bottleneck. Every time a LEO satellite passes overhead and hands off to ... Read more
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Arguments for Rapid Economic Shock from AI

Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross explains why the rapid collapse in the cost of AI is doing more than improving software. It is triggering a chain reaction that could collapse the cost structure of the entire economy. This conversation explores the idea of an Economic Singularity, where intelligence becomes radically cheaper, robotics turns that intelligence into near-zero ... Read more
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Showstoppers for Tesla and SpaceX Merger

There are several reason why the Tesla and SpaceX merger will not happen and definitely not this year. It would be the largest merger deal involving a global public company ever. It would be the largest by several times. This makes it risky and complex. It will involve EU approval and if the EU rejected ... Read more
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Overhyped Fears of Kessler Syndrome

There was a youtube video with a clickbait title of – Megaconstellations May Be Just 2 Days Away From Causing a Kessler Syndrome. The video was made over a month ago. So the specific title NEVER happened. The CRASH Clock asks what is the expected time for a collision in LEO between tracked artificial objects, ... Read more
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20 Years of SLS and Constellation – 50 Years of the Same RS25 Engine and Each One Costs $145 Million

SLS (Space Launch System) uses a 50 year old rocket engine design that now costs $145 million each (not including labor and testing) which is over 300 times more expensive than the more powerful SpaceX Raptor 3 engine. It is a flying museum piece that is using difficult liquid hydrogen which was the reason for ... Read more
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Up to Date Technical Dive into State of AI

Detailed Summary of Lex Fridman Podcast: AI State-of-the-Art 2026 with Nathan Lambert and Sebastian RaschkaThis episode (YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV7WhVT270Q, released around early 2026) features Lex Fridman interviewing Nathan Lambert (post-training lead at Allen Institute for AI, author of The RLHF Book) and Sebastian Raschka (author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) and Build a ... Read more
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Is It OK for BYD to Burn $10 Billion Because of Negative Cashflow? OpenAI Burns $8 Billion

When I ask AI If having negative cashflow of $10 billion is a good thing, the AI says it can be strategically OK. IF the company was rapidly expanding with new factories or investing for major growth. Is Burning >$10.3 Billion in Cash “Good” or “OK”? It depends entirely on context, stage, and strategy—it’s rarely ... Read more
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