Physics undergraduate @ucrcnas. Primarily available on bluer skies @alejandroturnbull.space
Joined May 2024
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If by "the prior administration," @NASAAdmin means "the Biden White House," he is misremembering events. The Biden admin left MSR with this press release, where NASA was to take a reduced-cost dual-track approach with decision on which track deferred to 2026.
Interesting you have that perception. I actually have been a loud voice saying NASA pivoted too far with commercialization into areas where there was no obvious business case or market, unfairly shifting the impossible burden onto others, and have been working to fix that, bringing some balance to the Force and restoring core competencies, rebuilding the workforce, and turning NASA Centers into builders again. We will finish 2026 with 20,000 civil servants, up from 14,000 at the beginning of the year.
And I am not aware of any science programs that I cut. Certainly, the prior administration canceled MSR, and rightfully so over cost growth (though I would love to re-attack and find a better, more affordable way to get those samples), and NASA science leadership has to be able to pivot away from older programs to invest in new missions. I know I helped add several missions, including MoonFall, SkyFall, and PROMISE, while championing a 'Nuclear NASA' to send missions to Enceladus and Uranus. For those who have doubts, talk to the people doing the work at the NASA Centers and decide for yourself.
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Everyone is posting about "how on earth will they sell this roadster with the thrusters" and the very simple answer is they will not
"invite only" translation: "we will build five of them and you will never see one"
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Alejandro Turnbull retweeted
The next breakthrough in Mars exploration could be closer than you think.
Building on our heritage with @NASA's InSight and OSIRIS-REx missions, we've developed a streamlined, cost-effective concept to return Perseverance's Martian samples to Earth for scientific study.
Hey @0xSigil real icky astroturfing job you're doing over on IG to promote your repackage of Qwen3.8 27B by pretending it somehow doesn't need data centers!
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So for my sporadic return to this website: this weekend's project has been getting @typesafeai's Jev to play Age of Empires III. Behold: Jev (in an enormous Python harness courtesy of Claude) defeating the in-game AI on Easy difficulty.
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