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We were taught that Earth orbits the Sun in a closed circle. In reality, Earth has never returned to the same point in space once in 4.5 billion years.
Right now, the Sun is carrying Earth and every planet around the center of the Milky Way at 230 km/s (828,000 km/h), more than 18,000 kilometers every 80 seconds.
Because the Solar System is tilted 60.2° to the galactic plane and bobs up and down through the galactic disc roughly every 30 million years, the planets trace open 3D corkscrew helices across deep space rather than flat loops.
The last time the Sun stood where it stands today, one Galactic Year (230 million years) ago, the very first dinosaurs were only beginning to appear on Earth. Since forming 4.6 billion years ago, our Sun has completed only 20 laps.
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today i learned that Elon is getting into space drugs
it's called Starfall and it's basically a flying drug lab
> drug companies pack their ingredients into a 10-foot-wide capsule
> a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carries it into orbit
> the drugs grow on their own with nobody on board
> then the capsule falls back to Earth and parachutes into the Pacific
the reason they go through all that hassle is that drugs come out way better when they’re made in space
because the tiny crystals they’re made of grow evenly up there instead of lumpy like they do on Earth
take Keytruda, the best-selling drug in the world
scientists grew its crystals on the space station, which helped turn it from a 2-hour IV drip into a 1-minute shot
and the craziest part is that some medicine might only be possible to develop up there
for example: scientists couldn't get clean crystals of a key Duchenne muscular dystrophy protein on Earth
but the ones grown in space finally showed its shape and led to a new drug that went into human trials
so i think space will unlock a whole new class of drugs that are impossible to make on Earth
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you’re hiding RAM under the floor board aren’t you?
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The reward of reproducing is enjoying vicarious life through your children’s deeds.
“Living vicariously” becoming a pejorative is an assault on the family, and even the species.
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holy f*ck, elon musk told his team to build the best grok bot course so anyone can figure it out. the result surprised me
18 guides, about 3 hours to go through all of them
marketing, sales, support, recruiting, legal, engineering, product, design. each one is a real playbook from the team that runs grok bot every day
similar courses cost $100-500. this one is free. thank you elon!
how to use:
1. open the guides page
2. tag bot in the comments on this post
3. write: "study this post and see which guides we can apply to my work"
4. the bot picks the guides that fit your job
5. send it the first task
guides: x.ai/bot/guides
save this, then use the config and setup from the spacexai engineers in the article below ↓
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To offend a strong man, tell him a lie, To offend a weak man, tell him the truth
— Marcus Aurelius
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One of the most compelling parts about working at an ElonCo was the agility to pivot to whatever the most important problem was.
One day I said: I wasn’t hired to go after spam, but a tsunami is coming and I’m going to drop everything to focus on that.
The org is so flat and agile that your title is basically meaningless. Anyone can sound the alarm about a problem and solve it themselves—or rally the team to join them.
This is how startups work but it’s very hard to make it work in a larger company.
