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At this point, can anyone compete with SpaceX? Love him or hate him, Elon Musk and his cadre of very talented employees and partners have built the most remarkable launch service in history, increasing the US launch rate from a handful to over 100 per year in less than a decade. Eric Berger--Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica and author of "Liftoff" and "Reentry," two books about Musk and SpaceX--joins us. We discuss the rise of SpaceX, Musk's future in US politics and the market, and what to expect from SpaceX in the next decade. We also look at the possible competitors to SpaceX's dominance in the market. Join us! Get "Reentry" (affiliate link): https://amzn.to/4fe4f5s Headlines: - The 2024 US presidential election results are in, with Donald Trump set to become the 47th President. Trump has shown a keen interest in space, name-dropping Elon Musk, SpaceX, and Starlink during his victory speech. - SpaceX conducted its first ISS reboost mission using a Dragon cargo ship, showcasing a new capability for the company. - NASA issued a statement addressing tabloid rumors about astronaut Sunita Williams' health, affirming that all astronauts aboard the ISS are in good health and undergo routine medical evaluations. Main Topic - SpaceX Ascendant: - The Trump administration is expected to embrace SpaceX's Starship vision, potentially fast-tracking the company's progress by reducing regulatory hurdles. - SpaceX has a significant lead in the space industry, with no other company having achieved reusable rocket technology. The closest competitors are Blue Origin and Chinese companies, which are still years behind. - The US government has become increasingly reliant on SpaceX for launches, satellite internet, and the Artemis program, with no viable alternatives currently available. - SpaceX's success can be attributed to Elon Musk's relentless drive and vision to make humanity a multi-planetary species, as well as the company's willingness to take risks and innovate. - Starship is seen as the key to making widespread space access possible, with the potential to drastically reduce the cost of space travel and enable missions to Mars. - The future of space exploration is uncertain, with the potential for significant changes under the new administration and Elon Musk's growing influence as an advisor to the President. Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik Guest: Eric Berger Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: uscloud.com

At this point, can anyone compete with SpaceX? Love him or hate him, Elon Musk and his cadre of very talented employees and partners have built the most remarkable launch service in history, increasing the US launch rate from a handful to over 100 per year in less than a decade. Eric Berger--Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica and author of "Liftoff" and "Reentry," two books about Musk and SpaceX--joins us. We discuss the rise of SpaceX, Musk's future in US politics and the market, and what to expect from SpaceX in the next decade. We also look at the possible competitors to SpaceX's dominance in the market. Join us! Get "Reentry" (affiliate link): https://amzn.to/4fe4f5s Headlines: - The 2024 US presidential election results are in, with Donald Trump set to become the 47th President. Trump has shown a keen interest in space, name-dropping Elon Musk, SpaceX, and Starlink during his victory speech. - SpaceX conducted its first ISS reboost mission using a Dragon cargo ship, showcasing a new capability for the company. - NASA issued a statement addressing tabloid rumors about astronaut Sunita Williams' health, affirming that all astronauts aboard the ISS are in good health and undergo routine medical evaluations. Main Topic - SpaceX Ascendant: - The Trump administration is expected to embrace SpaceX's Starship vision, potentially fast-tracking the company's progress by reducing regulatory hurdles. - SpaceX has a significant lead in the space industry, with no other company having achieved reusable rocket technology. The closest competitors are Blue Origin and Chinese companies, which are still years behind. - The US government has become increasingly reliant on SpaceX for launches, satellite internet, and the Artemis program, with no viable alternatives currently available. - SpaceX's success can be attributed to Elon Musk's relentless drive and vision to make humanity a multi-planetary species, as well as the company's willingness to take risks and innovate. - Starship is seen as the key to making widespread space access possible, with the potential to drastically reduce the cost of space travel and enable missions to Mars. - The future of space exploration is uncertain, with the potential for significant changes under the new administration and Elon Musk's growing influence as an advisor to the President. Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik Guest: Eric Berger Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: uscloud.com

At this point, can anyone compete with SpaceX? Love him or hate him, Elon Musk and his cadre of very talented employees and partners have built the most remarkable launch service in history, increasing the US launch rate from a handful to over 100 per year in less than a decade. Eric Berger--Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica and author of "Liftoff" and "Reentry," two books about Musk and SpaceX--joins us. We discuss the rise of SpaceX, Musk's future in US politics and the market, and what to expect from SpaceX in the next decade. We also look at the possible competitors to SpaceX's dominance in the market. Join us! Get "Reentry" (affiliate link): https://amzn.to/4fe4f5s Headlines: - The 2024 US presidential election results are in, with Donald Trump set to become the 47th President. Trump has shown a keen interest in space, name-dropping Elon Musk, SpaceX, and Starlink during his victory speech. - SpaceX conducted its first ISS reboost mission using a Dragon cargo ship, showcasing a new capability for the company. - NASA issued a statement addressing tabloid rumors about astronaut Sunita Williams' health, affirming that all astronauts aboard the ISS are in good health and undergo routine medical evaluations. Main Topic - SpaceX Ascendant: - The Trump administration is expected to embrace SpaceX's Starship vision, potentially fast-tracking the company's progress by reducing regulatory hurdles. - SpaceX has a significant lead in the space industry, with no other company having achieved reusable rocket technology. The closest competitors are Blue Origin and Chinese companies, which are still years behind. - The US government has become increasingly reliant on SpaceX for launches, satellite internet, and the Artemis program, with no viable alternatives currently available. - SpaceX's success can be attributed to Elon Musk's relentless drive and vision to make humanity a multi-planetary species, as well as the company's willingness to take risks and innovate. - Starship is seen as the key to making widespread space access possible, with the potential to drastically reduce the cost of space travel and enable missions to Mars. - The future of space exploration is uncertain, with the potential for significant changes under the new administration and Elon Musk's growing influence as an advisor to the President. Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik Guest: Eric Berger Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: uscloud.com

At this point, can anyone compete with SpaceX? Love him or hate him, Elon Musk and his cadre of very talented employees and partners have built the most remarkable launch service in history, increasing the US launch rate from a handful to over 100 per year in less than a decade. Eric Berger--Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica and author of "Liftoff" and "Reentry," two books about Musk and SpaceX--joins us. We discuss the rise of SpaceX, Musk's future in US politics and the market, and what to expect from SpaceX in the next decade. We also look at the possible competitors to SpaceX's dominance in the market. Join us! Get "Reentry" (affiliate link): https://amzn.to/4fe4f5s Headlines: - The 2024 US presidential election results are in, with Donald Trump set to become the 47th President. Trump has shown a keen interest in space, name-dropping Elon Musk, SpaceX, and Starlink during his victory speech. - SpaceX conducted its first ISS reboost mission using a Dragon cargo ship, showcasing a new capability for the company. - NASA issued a statement addressing tabloid rumors about astronaut Sunita Williams' health, affirming that all astronauts aboard the ISS are in good health and undergo routine medical evaluations. Main Topic - SpaceX Ascendant: - The Trump administration is expected to embrace SpaceX's Starship vision, potentially fast-tracking the company's progress by reducing regulatory hurdles. - SpaceX has a significant lead in the space industry, with no other company having achieved reusable rocket technology. The closest competitors are Blue Origin and Chinese companies, which are still years behind. - The US government has become increasingly reliant on SpaceX for launches, satellite internet, and the Artemis program, with no viable alternatives currently available. - SpaceX's success can be attributed to Elon Musk's relentless drive and vision to make humanity a multi-planetary species, as well as the company's willingness to take risks and innovate. - Starship is seen as the key to making widespread space access possible, with the potential to drastically reduce the cost of space travel and enable missions to Mars. - The future of space exploration is uncertain, with the potential for significant changes under the new administration and Elon Musk's growing influence as an advisor to the President. Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik Guest: Eric Berger Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: uscloud.com

We get spacey this week… Well, I mean there is a LOT of space news this week. Like those two NASA astronauts who are... stuck in space! Find out WHY and when they're coming back home to Earth! Plus, Space X's Dragon Capsule makes history. In entertainment news, Taylor Swift gets political – saying who's she's gonna vote for and why she's announcing it, but that's not all… She also has a big “hit” for getting out the vote. Plus, it's time to talk about book-banning – find out what censorship means and why it's such an important issue this week. That's not all… the planet Saturn is going to lose something iconic – but is it all just an illusion of grandeur? No idea what that means or has to do with space news? Well, you gotta listen till the end to find out!

PREVIEW: SPACEX: Conversation with colleague Bob Zimmerman re determination by SpaceX and NASA that pieces of Dragon capsule could land on the land around the Gulf, so the solution is to adjust splashdown location. More tonight. 1940

PREVIEW: #SPACEX: SPACEWALK: Conversation with Bob Zimmerman re the upcoming Jared Isaacman private mission on a SpaceX Dragon capsule that will include two spacewalks -- in order to advance the case for a Hubble repair mission. More tomorrow. 1953

Science. Ownership. Speed. Openness.These are the four pillars of Andrew McAfee's observed structure for successful companies. It is the “geeks,” the leaders at the forefront of cross-industry innovation, who embrace these norms and have the potential to redefine business as we know it. In order to break ground and create the kind of future we dream of, organizational leaders need to banish the fear of failure, embrace mistakes, and accept hard feedback with open arms.Andrew is a best-selling author, Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and co-founder of MIT's Initiative on the Digital Economy. His books include More from Less and The Second Machine Age, co-authored with Erik Brynjolfsson. Today on the podcast, we discuss the ideas captured in his most recent book, The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset that Drives Extraordinary Results. In This Episode* The universal geek (1:35)* The four geek norms (8:29)* Tales of geeks and non-geeks (15:19)* Can big companies go geek? (18:33)* The geek way beyond tech (26:32)Below is a lightly edited transcript of our conversation.The universal geek (1:35)Pethokoukis: Is The Geek Way really the Silicon Valley Way? Is this book saying, “Here's how to turn your company into a tech startup”?McAfee: You mentioned both Silicon Valley and tech, and this book is not about either of those—it's not about a region and it's not about an industry, it's about a set of practices. And I think a lot of the confusion comes because those practices were incubated and largely formulated in this region called “Silicon Valley” in this industry that we call “tech”. So I understand the confusion, but I'm not writing about the Valley. Plenty of people do that. I'm not writing about the tech industry. Plenty of people do that. The phenomenon that I don't think we are paying enough attention to is this set of practices and philosophies that, I believe, when bundled correctly, amounts to a flat old upgrade to the company, just a better way to do the thing a company is supposed to do. That needed a label, because it's new. “Geek” is the label that I latched onto.But there's a universal aspect to this, then.Yeah, I believe there is. I understand this sounds arrogant—I believe it's a flat better way to run a company. I don't care where in the world you are, I don't care what industry you are in, if you're making decisions based on evidence, if you're iterating more and planning less, if you're building a modular organization that really does give people authority and responsibility, and if you build an organization where people are actually comfortable speaking truth to power, I think you're going to do better.One reason I'm excited about this book is because, you as well, we think about technological progress, we think about economic growth and productivity and part of that is science and coming up with new ideas and a new technology, but all that stuff has to actually be turned into a commercial enterprise and there has to be well-run companies that take that idea and sell it. Maybe the economist's word might be “diffusion” or something like that, but that's a pretty big part of the story, which I think maybe economists tend not to focus as much on, or policy people, but it's pretty darn important and that's what I think is so exciting about your book is that it addresses that: How to create companies that can do that process—invention-to-product—better. So how can they do it better?Let me quibble with you just a little bit. There are alternatives to this method of getting goods and services to people, called “the company.” That's what we do in capitalist societies. Jim, like you know all too well, over the course of the 20th century, we ran a couple of experiments trying it a different way: These collectivist, command-and-control, centrally planned economies, those were horrible failures! Let's just establish that right off the bat.So in most of the parts of the world—I think in all the parts of the world where you and I would actually want to live—I agree with you, we've settled on this method of getting most goods and services to people, most of what they consume, via these entities called companies, and I don't care if you're in a Nordic social democracy, or in the US of A, or in Southeast Asia, companies are the things getting you most of what you consume. I think in the United States, about 85 percent of what you and I consume, by some estimates, comes from companies. So, like them or hate them, they're incredibly important, and if a doohickey comes along that lets them their work X percent better, we should applaud that like crazy because that's an X percent increase in our affluence, our standard of living, the things that we care about, and the reason I got excited and decided to write this book is I think there's an upgrade to the company going on that's at the same level as the stuff that [Alfred] Chandler wrote about a century ago when we invented the large, professionally managed, pretty big company. Those dominated the corporate landscape throughout the 20th century. I think that model is being upgraded by the geeks.It's funny because, I suppose maybe the geeks 50 years ago, maybe a lot of them worked at IBM. And your sort-of geek norms are not what I think of the old Big Blue from IBM in the 1960s. That has changed. Before we get into the norms, how did they develop? Why do we even have examples of this working in the real corporate world?The short answer is, I don't know exactly. That's a pretty detailed piece of corporate history and economic history to work on. The longer answer is, what I think happened is, a lot of computer nerds, who had spent a lot of time at universities and were pretty steeped in that style of learning things and building things, went off and started companies and, in lots of cases, they ran into the classic difficulties that occur to companies and the dysfunctions that creep in as companies grow and age and scale. And instead of accepting them, my definition of a geek is somebody who's tenacious about a problem and is willing to embrace unconventional solutions. I think a lot of these geeks—and I'm talking about people like Reed Hastings, who's really articulate about what he did at Netflix and at his previous company, which he says he ran into mediocrity—a lot of these geeks like Hastings sat around and said, “Wait a minute, if I wanted to not repeat these mistakes, what would I do differently?” They noodled that hard problem for a long time, and I think via some conversation among the geeks, but via these fairly independent vectors in a lot of cases, they have settled on these practices, these norms that they believe—and I believe—help them get past the classic dysfunctions of the Industrial Era that you and I know all too well: their bureaucratization, their sclerosis, their cultures of silence. They are just endless stifling meetings and turf wars and factions and things like that. We know those things exist. What I think is interesting is that the geeks are aware of them and I think they've come up with ways to do better.The four geek norms (8:29)It's funny that once you've looked at your book, it is impossible to read any other sort of business biography of a company or a CEO and not keep these ideas in your head because I just finished up the Elon Musk biography by Walter Isaacson, and boy, I just kept on thinking of speed and science and the questioning of everything: Why are we doing this? Why are we building this rocket engine like this? Who told us to do that? Somebody in legal told us to do that?Exactly.So certainly those two pop to mind: the speed and the constant iteration. But rather than have me describe them, why don't you describe those norms in probably a much better way than I can.There's a deep part of the Isaacson Musk biography that made my geek eyes light up, and it's when Isaacson describes Musk's Algorithm—I think it's capitalized, too, it's capital “The,” capital “Algorithm,”—which is all about taking stuff out. I think that is profound because we humans have a very strong status quo bias. We're reluctant to take things out. It's one of the best-documented human biases. So we just add stuff, we just layer stuff on, and before you know it, for a couple different flavors of reason, you wind up with this kind of overbuilt, encrusted, process-heavy, bureaucracy-heavy, can't get anything done [corporation]. You feel like you're pushing on a giant piece of Jell-O or something to try to get any work done. And I think part of Musk's brilliance as a builder and an organization designer is to come up with The Algorithm that says, “No, no, a big part of your job is to figure out what doesn't need to be there and make it go away.” I adore that. It's closest to my great geek norm of ownership, which is really the opposite of this processification of the enterprise of the company that we were super fond of starting in the '90s and going forward.So now to answer your question, my four great geek norms, which are epitomized by Musk in a lot of ways, but not always, are:Science. Just make decisions based on evidence and argue a lot about that evidence. Science is an argument with a ground rule. Evidence rules.Ownership. We were just talking about this. Devolve authority downward, stop all the cross-communication, coordination, collaboration, process, all that. Build a modular organization.Speed. Do the minimum amount of planning and then start iterating. You learn, you get feedback, you see where you're keeping up to schedule and where you're not by doing stuff and getting feedback, not by sitting around asking everybody if they're on schedule and doing a lot of upfront planning.Finally, openness, this willingness to speak truth to power. In some ways, a good synonym for it is “psychological safety” and a good antonym for it is “defensiveness.”If anything, from what I understand about Musk, the last one is where he might run into challenges.That's what I was going to say. The ownership and the speed and the science struck me and then I'm like… the openness? Well, you have to be willing to take some abuse to be open in that environment.There are these stories about him firing people on the spot and making these kind of peremptory decisions—all of that is a violation, in my eyes, of the great geek norm of openness. It might be the most common violation that I see classic Silicon Valley techies engage in. They fall victim to overconfidence like the rest of us do, and they're not careful enough about designing their companies to be a check on their own overconfidence. This is something Hastings is very humble and very articulate about in No Rules Rules, the book that he co-wrote with Erin Meyer about Netflix and he highlights all these big calls that he was dead-flat wrong about, and he eventually realized that he had to build Netflix into a place that would tell him he was wrong when he was wrong, and he does all these really nice jobs of highlighting areas where he was wrong and then some relatively low-level person in the organization says, “No, that doesn't make sense. I'm going to go gather evidence and I'm going to challenge the CEO of the company with it.” And to his eternal credit, Hastings goes, “It's pretty compelling evidence. I guess I was wrong about that.” So that, to me, is actually practicing the great geek norm of openness.So someone reading this book is thinking that this book is wrong. Where would that come from? Would that come from overconfidence? Would it come from arrogance? Would it come from the idea that if I am in the C-suite, that obviously I have it figured out and I can probably do all your jobs better than you can, so why are you challenging me? Why are you challenging the status quo? “Hey, that's how we got here was through a process, so trust the process!”It's one of the main flavors of pushback that I hear, and it's very often not as naked as you just made it, but it is, “Hey, the reason I'm sitting in this executive education classroom with you is because I'm fairly good at my job. I made some big calls right, and my job is to provide vision to my team and to direct them not to be this kind of lead-from-behind more coach-y kind of leader.” That's one flavor of pushback I get. Another one is a very pervasive tendency, when we come across some challenging information, to come up with reasons why this doesn't apply to us and why we're going to be just fine. It's some combination of the status quo bias and the overconfidence bias which, again, two of the most common human biases. So very often when I'm talking about this, I get the idea that people in the room are going, “Yeah, okay, wow, I really wouldn't want to complete with SpaceX, but this doesn't apply to me or to my industry.” And then finally, look, I'm clearly wrong about some things. I don't know exactly what they are. Maybe the incumbents of the Enterprise Era are going to mount a surprising comeback by falling back on their 20th-century playbook as opposed to adopting the geek way. I will be very surprised if that happens and I'm taking bets like, “Let's go, let's figure out a bet based on that,” but maybe it'll happen. I'm definitely wrong about some things.Tales of geeks and non-geeks (15:19)Given what you've said, I would certainly think that it would be easier to apply these norms at a newer company, a younger company, a smaller company, rather than a company with a hundred thousand employees that's been around for 30 years. But it's possible to do the second one, right?It is possible. Let me violently agree with you, Jim. You and I are of a vintage and we're both Midwesterners. We both remember Arthur Andersen, right? And what an iconic American Midwestern symbol of rectitude and reliability and a healthy culture that kept the business world honest by auditing their books. Remember all that? Remember how it fell apart?I knew people, and if you got an interview with Arthur Andersen, they're like, “Wow, you are with the Cadillac of accounting consulting firms.”But beyond that, you were doing a valuable thing for society, right? These people had status in the community because they kind of kept companies honest for a living.That's right. That's right. You were true of the truth tellers.Yeah. It was a big deal and a lot of your listeners, I think, are going to be too young to remember it firsthand, but that company became a dysfunctional, unethical, ongoing, miserable train wreck of an organization in its final years before it finally fell apart. It could not have been more surprising to people of our vintage and where we came from. I tell the story of how that happened a little bit in the book to drive home that cultures can go off track in profound ways and in AA's late years, if someone had teleported The Geek Way and waved it around, would it have made any difference? I'd like to hope so, but I kind of don't think so.However, to tell a more optimistic story, I had the chance to interview Satya Nadella about his turnaround at Microsoft, which I think is at a level maybe even above the turnaround that [Steve] Jobs executed when he came back to Apple. The amount of value that Nadella has created at Microsoft in nine years now is staggering, and Microsoft is back. Microsoft has mojo again in the tech industry. But when he took over, Microsoft was still a large profitable company, but it was dead in the water. It wasn't innovating. The geek elite didn't want to go work there. The stock price was flat as a highway for a decade. It was absolutely an afterthought in anything that we care about. And so I use Nadella and I learned from him, and I try to tell the story about how he executed this comeback, and, to my eyes, he did it in a very, very geek way kind of a way.Can you give me an example?My point in telling that story is: I do think it's possible for organizations that find themselves in a bad spot—Established organizations.Established. Large, established organizations find themselves in a bad spot. Those kinds of leopards can change their spots. I firmly believe that.Can big companies go geek? (18:33)What are the first steps to change the corporate culture of a big company?That's why I'm so blown away by what Nadella and his team were able to do. Let me pick out a couple things that seem particularly geeky to me that he did. One was to say that—it doesn't matter if you develop them or not—you do not own code or data at Microsoft. What he meant by that was, subject to legal requirements and safety and some guardrails, if you want to grab some of the code repository at Microsoft to go try something or some data and go try something, you have the right to do that. That just eliminates huge amounts of gatekeeping and hard and soft bureaucracy and all of that inside the company. And that led to things like Copilot. It's a very, very smart way to start dealing with bureaucracy: just saying, “No, you don't get to gatekeep anymore.”He also did fairly obvious things like make sure that their really dysfunctional evaluation system was over. He also emphasized this thing that he called “One Microsoft,” which at first sounded like just CEO rah-rah talk. And it is to some extent, but it's also incredibly clever because we humans are so tribal. In addition to the status quo bias and the overconfidence bias, the third easy, easy bias to elicit is “myside” bias. We are tribal. We want our tribe to win. I think part of Nadella's brilliance was to say, “The tribe that you belong to is not Office versus Windows versus Bing versus… the tribe you belong to is Microsoft.”And he changed compensation, so that it also worked that way. He worked with incentives—he took an Econ 101 class—but he also kept emphasizing that “we are one tribe,” and that makes a difference if the leader at the top keeps saying it and if they behave that way. I think one of the deepest things that he did was act in an open way and demonstrate the norm of openness that he wanted to see all over the place. He got a ton of help with it, but if you talk to him, you immediately realize that he's not this table-pounding, my-way-or-the-highway kind of a guy. He's somebody that wants to get it right, and if you have an idea, you might get a fair erring for that idea. He also embraced agile methods and started to move away from the old ways that Microsoft had to write software, which were out of date, and they were yielding some really unimpressive projects.So as he and I were talking, I was doing my internal checklist and I kept on saying, “Yep, that's speed. That is science. That is ownership. That is openness,” and just emphasizing, as I listened to him, I just kept hearing these norms come up over and over. But one thing that he clearly knows is that this ain't easy and it ain't fast, and cultural change is a long, slow, grinding process, and you've got to keep saying the same thing over and over. And then I think, especially as a leader, you've got to keep living it because people will immediately sense if what you're doing is not lining up with what you're saying.One bit that popped out, because obviously I'm in Washington and I see a government that doesn't work very efficiently, and you wrote, “To accelerate learning and progress, plan less and iterate more,” and to iterate means to experiment, it means you're going to fail. And boy, oh boy, failure-averse organizations, you can find that in government, you can find it in corporate America, that acceptance of: try something and if it fails, it's a learning experience. It's not a black mark on your career forever. Now let's go try the next thing.Exactly. To me, it's the most obvious thing that the geeks do that's starkly different from Industrial Era organizations, “plan less, iterate more.” The great geek norm of speed, and there are a bunch of exemplars of that. The clearest one to me is SpaceX, where they blow up a rocket and that is a win for them, not a loss. And even if it gets written up in the press as, “Oh, Starship blew up, or whatever”—they don't care, right? They'd rather that it didn't blow up or that it stayed together longer, but if they got the learning that they were looking for, then they're like, “Great, we're going to incorporate that, we're going to build another rocket, we're not going to put any people on until we're very, very, very sure, but we're going to blow up a bunch of rockets.” From the start of the company, that has been an okay thing to do.They also are willing to embrace pretty big pivots. The first plan for Starship was that it was going to be a carbon fiber rocket because carbon fiber is so strong and lightweight, but their method for making it was too slow, too expensive, and had a reject rate that was too high. The thing's now made out of stainless steel! It's the opposite kind of material! But they said, “Look, the goal is the goal, and the goal is not to stick to the original plan, the goal is to build a great big rocket that can do all kinds of things. The way we get there is by trying—legitimately trying—a bunch of stuff and failing at it with the eyes of the world upon us.”I want to draw a really sharp distinction between the process and the product, and what I mean by that is a failure-tolerant process can yield an incredibly robust, safe product. We don't need to look any farther for that than the Dragon Capsule that SpaceX makes, which is the only capsule currently made in America that is certified by NASA to take human beings into space. It's how all Americans these days get back and forth to the ISS. NASA doesn't have one. NASA gave a contract to Boeing at the same time it gave one to SpaceX. Boeing still has not had the first crude test of its capsule. This geek way of speed, it's uncomfortable, and you got to be willing to fail publicly and own it, but it works better.Is the geek way, to some degree, an American phenomenon?So far.I was going to say, can the geek way be implemented in other countries? Is there something special about American culture that allows the geek way to work and to be adopted—I said universal earlier, maybe I meant, is it truly universal? Can it be implemented in other places?Jim, you and I, as proud Americans, like to believe that we're an exceptional country, and I do believe that. I don't believe the geek way only works with a bunch of Americans trying it. I travel lots of different places, and especially the energy that I see among younger people to be part of this transformation of the world that's happening (that you and I are lucky enough to get to observe and try to think about), this transformation of the world in the 21st century because of the technological toolkit that we have, because of the amount of innovation out there, the thirst to be part of that is very, very, very widespread. And I don't think there's anything in the drinking water in Munich or Kyoto or Lima that makes this stuff impossible at all. It is true, we're an individualistic culture, we're kind of mouthy, we celebrate these iconoclastic people, but I don't think any of those are absolutely necessary in order to start following norms of science, ownership, speed and openness. I hope those are universal.The geek way beyond tech (26:32)We've been talking a lot about tech companies. Are there companies which really don't seem particularly techie (even though obviously all companies use technology) that you could see the geek way working currently?I haven't gone off and looked outside the tech industry for great exemplars of the geek way, so I have trouble answering this question. But think about Bridgewater, which is really one of the weirdest corporate cultures ever invented, and I haven't read the new biography of Ray Dalio yet, but it appears that all might not be exactly as it appears. But one thing that Bridgewater has been adamant about from the get-go, and Dalio has been passionate about, is this idea of radical transparency, is the idea of openness. Your reputation is not private from anybody else in the company at any point in time. So they've taken this norm of openness and they've really ran with it in some fascinating directions. In most organizations, there's a lot of information that's private, and your reputation is spread by gossip. Literally, that's how it works. Bridgewater said, “Nope. We really believe in openness and everything that's important about your performance as a professional in this company, you're going to get rated on it by your colleagues, and you're going to have these visible to everybody all the time inside the company so that if you start espousing how important it is to be ethical, but your score as an ethical leader is really low, nobody's going to listen to you.” I think that's fascinating, and I think as time goes by, we're going to come across these very, very geeky norms and practices being implemented in all kinds of weird corners of the global economy. I can't wait to learn about it.I would think that, given how every country would like to be more productive, every country's having a white paper on how to improve their productivity, and this, to me, is maybe something that policymakers don't think about, and I'm not sure if there's a policy aspect to this, but I hope a lot of corporate leaders and aspiring corporate leaders at least read your book.Well, the one policy implication that might come up is, what happens when the geeks start unignorably beating up the incumbents in your favorite industry. When I look at what's happening in the global auto industry right now, I see some of that going on, and my prediction is that it's going to get worse instead of better. Okay, then what happens?Save us! Save us from this upstart!Exactly, but then there could be some really interesting policy choices being made about protecting dinosaur incumbents in the face of geek competitors. I hope we don't retreat into nationalism and protectionism and that kind of stuff. What I hope happens instead is that the world learns how to get geeky relatively quickly and that this upgrade to the company spreads.The only thing I would add here is I would also urge business journalists to read the book so you understand how companies work and how these new companies that work, companies that look like they are—and not to keep harping on SpaceX, but so many people who I think should know better, will look at SpaceX and think, “Oh, they're failing. Oh, that rocket, as you said earlier, the rocket blew up! Apollo had a couple of problems, they're blowing up a rocket every six weeks!” And they just simply do not understand how this kind of company works. So I don't know. So I guess I would recommend my business journalists to read it, and I imagine you would think the same.That recommendation makes a ton of sense to me. Jim. I'm all on board with that.Andrew. This is an outstanding book and a wonderful companion piece to your other work which is very pro-progress, and pro-growth. I absolutely loved it, and thanks so much for coming on the podcast today,Jim, thanks for being part of the Up Wing Party with me. Let's make it happen.Absolutely. Thank you.Thank you, sir. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fasterplease.substack.com/subscribe

On this episode, we discuss some of the exciting progress in Human Spaceflight so far in the first month of the year! We're discussing how SpaceX's Starship had it's first full wet dress rehearsal in Boca Chica, Texas at Starbase. As well as an update from the Polaris Dawn crew training: they recently completed some decompression sickness training for when the attempt depressurizing the Dragon Capsule to conduct the highest altitude spacewalk from Earth, that wasn't done around the Moon. Episode Topics:  Who are the four Polaris Dawn Crew Members? What has training been like? Starship completed it's first full wet dress rehearsal - what does this mean? The different approaches to space: SpaceX's Starship vs. NASA's JWST - which way is better for space progress? NASA's Day of Rememberance: Learn about the legacy here: https://www.nasa.gov/specials/dor2023/ Polaris Dawn Crew conducts decompression sickness study: https://polarisprogram.com/polaris-dawn-crew-participates-in-a-decompression-sickness-study-at-nasas-johnson-space-center/ SpaceX's Starship conducts 1st full Wet Dress Rehearsal leading up to 1st Orbital Launch Attempt: https://twitter.com/spacex/status/1617676629001801728?s=46&t=FZapkFoxqCAuvUtHCkhANA Here's to building a fantastic future - and continued progress in Space (and humanity)! Spread Love, Spread Science Alex G. Orphanos We'd like to thank our sponsors: - Manscaped - AG3D Printing Follow us: @todayinspacepod on Instagram/Twitter @todayinspace on TikTok /TodayInSpacePodcast on Facebook Support the podcast: • Get 20% OFF@manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code SPACE at MANSCAPED.com! #ad #manscapedpod • Buy a 3D printed gift from our shop - ag3dprinting.etsy.com • Get a free quote on your next 3D printing project at ag3d-printing.com • Donate at todayinspace.net

Jonah returns from his trip to Virginia with some insight on a popular show. Tanner rejoins the podcast to give us his take on King of the Hill. Grayson and Jonah compare Peaky Blinders and Yellowstone (SPOILERS from 19:00-23:00). The guy wrap up the semi-finals of the "Freezy P" bracket.

This week Space Explored's Seth Kurkowski and Derek Wise discuss the first all civilian mission to orbit, the shocking change to NASA's leadership for human spaceflight, what Starship's Draft Environmental Assessment means for the program, and more. Subscribe YouTubeSpotifyApple PodcastsOvercast Follow Seth Kurkowski @SethKurk Derek Wise @derekiswise Read More Starship Super Heavy Environmental report reveals new details about SpaceX's latest rocketNASA Administrator admits 2024 lunar landing date might not happen[Scoop] Artemis 1 CubeSats get second chance at integration thanks to SLS testing delaysSpace Force unveils two new uniforms to be worn by its GuardiansBill Nelson's NASA divides key space program leadership between Kathy Lueders and Jim FreeOvens, wifi, and toilets: Elon Musk promises these improvements on future SpaceX spaceflightsThe Space Force just released their new enlisted rank insignias[UPDATE: More testing and pictures] Orion mass simulator installed atop Artemis I SLSStarlink connectivity coming to SpaceX's Dragon Capsule, Starlink exiting beta, & more Elon tweetsWatch the Inspiration4 In-Flight update [Video]Inspiration4 crew speaks with St. Jude patients while in orbit [Video]SpaceX returns a Falcon 9 booster to Port of Long Beach for the first timeSpaceX launches Inspiration4 to orbit – ushering in new era of human spaceflightSpaceX Falcon Heavy Booster arrives at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex for permanent display More Space Explored Podcast Episodes Listen to more 9to5 podcasts Rapid Unscheduled DiscussionsHappy HourStacktraceAlphabet ScoopElectrekThe Buzz Podcast Enjoy reading Space Explored? Help others find us by following on Apple News and Google News. Be sure to check us out on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, join our Discord!

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You can subscribe and listen to every episode of the "Unleash the Awesome" podcast at https://gambrill.com/podcast .  1:10 What is escape velocity? 3:00 "Stop Letting Blind People Proofread Your Vision" - Episode 17 of the "Unleash the Awesome" podcast with Dave Gambrill.https://gambrill.simplecast.com/episodes/stop-letting-blind-people-proofread-your-vision . 3:05 "Haters Are Required" - Episode 7 of the "Unleash the Awesome" podcast with Dave Gambrill. https://gambrill.simplecast.com/episodes/haters-are-required . 3:42 "When you ask people who are unqualified to give you good advice, they give you bad advice." 5:02 Coinbase is what I use for my cryptocurrency investments, and you can get a bonus if you want to try it via my referral link at https://gambrill.com/coinbase . 6:10 "You become the average of the five people you spend the most time with." - Jim Rohn. 8:14 "Spank:Sara Blakely - How I Built This with Guy Raz" podcast. https://www.npr.org/2017/08/15/534771839/spanx-sara-blakely . 10:44 "How to Do Free Market Research Leveraging the Power of Amazon, Google, Facebook, YouTube, and More" - Episode 55 of the "Unleash the Awesome" podcast with Dave Gambrill.https://gambrill.simplecast.com/episodes/how-to-do-free-market-research-leveraging-the-power-of-amazon-google-facebook-youtube-and-more . 12:02 "Conquering the Confidence/Competence Loop" - Episode 6 of the "Unleash the Awesome" podcast.https://gambrill.simplecast.com/episodes/conquering-the-confidence-competence-loop .Want some help deciding what tech tools to use in your business? Check out Tech Tools Tuesday.https://gambrill.com/ttt . Come join the conversation in our communities... Digital Marketing Mentorship with Dave Gambrill Facebook Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/dmmdavegambrill . Digital Marketing Mentorship with Dave Gambrill Telegram Channelhttps://gambrill.com/telegramdmm . And let me know what you thought of this episode and what you'd like me cover in future episodes over on Instagram.https://www.instagram.com/gambrill/ .  #unleashawesome #escapevelocity #sidehustle #businessbydesign #entrepreneur #success #funnelhacker #mentor #mindset #skillset  #davegambrill #techtools #digitalmarketing #jmtdna  #toolset  #spanx #lifestyledesign #sarablakely #digitalceo #trainer #mentorship #corporatetrainer #sidehustle  #onlinecourses #jimrohn #guyraz #marketresearch #cardano #coinbase  CONSUMER NOTICE: You should assume that I have an affiliate relationship and/or another material connection to the providers of goods and services mentioned in this broadcast and may be compensated when you purchase from a provider. You should always perform due diligence before buying goods or services from anyone via the Internet or offline.

Kweku, Amy and Rob discuss four of the most exciting tech stories from the last fortnight: China's 6G satellite experiment, SpaceX's human-rating certification, Samsung's breakthrough in holographic screens, and the first-ever passenger test for the Virgin Hyperloop. SHOW NOTES bit.ly/3lHS5pW FIND US ONLINE For the latest updates, and even more content, make sure you follow us online Twitter: @wcnpod Instagram: @wcnpod GET IN TOUCH Questions? Comments? Fiery opinions? We’d love to hear them! Drop us an email at wcn@granttree.co.uk

We are in the midst of Sports Season now and so we are breaking from our Star Wars ness in order to catchup on our Sports episodes. This episode comes from the beginning of the sports season possibilities back in the midst of Covid-19 and covers both our thoughts about the various sports and also our thoughts concerning the launch of Space X's manned Dragon Capsule. Listen as we oooohhh and aaaaahhh about the return to manned flight here in 'Merica, we talk about how nobody cares about Basketball, and bemoan the likelihood that Kellen Mond will probably still be the Aggie's starting quarterback. Some of that and more on this episode of Pat and The Fat Man.

We are in the midst of Sports Season now and so we are breaking from our Star Wars ness in order to catchup on our Sports episodes. This episode comes from the beginning of the sports season possibilities back in the midst of Covid-19 and covers both our thoughts about the various sports and also our thoughts concerning the launch of Space X's manned Dragon Capsule. Listen as we oooohhh and aaaaahhh about the return to manned flight here in 'Merica, we talk about how nobody cares about Basketball, and bemoan the likelihood that Kellen Mond will probably still be the Aggie's starting quarterback. Some of that and more on this episode of Pat and The Fat Man.

Today's conversation is a continuation of Bill's, most recent chapter of his life with the completion of his graduate degree. Bill will now be working with Northrop Grumman and it's NASA partnership for the James Webb space telescope. Bill Waterstreet returns to the podcast, as he wraps up his graduate degree from the University of Michigan. Bill enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, starting his service in January 2011. When deployed to Afghanistan in 2013 and 2014, he assists army units in their information operation capacities. He was honorably discharged in January of 2015 at the rank of Sergeant. Following his service, Bill began attending the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in the fall of 2015. There he majored in mechanical engineering and minor in electrical engineering. After graduate his bachelor's degree, he continued at Michigan and achieved his master's degrees in mechanical engineering with a focus on controls and completed the degree in April 2020. Show notes: (00:05:53) James Webb Introduction (00:08:50) Seeing back in time (00:10:44) Can you see farther back in time than the age of the universe? (00:15:06) Folding Spacetime (00:16:48) What was before the big bang? (00:18:04) Testing the James Webb (00:20:24) The Sunshade (00:22:57) Problems with launching the Hubble (00:25:11) How to make sure nothing fails? (00:29:23) Points of Failure and working on the telescope (00:35:22) The Daily Work (00:39:11) The Cuckoo's Egg (00:39:54) How did Bill get the Job? (00:42:26) SpaceX (00:44:24) The Dragon Capsule (00:47:37) Bill's Final Project (00:51:13) How did bill get interested in rockets For more content head to https://feedingcuriosity.net/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/feedingcuriosity/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/feedingcuriosity/support

This week on The Enginerdy Show: Mr. Pold gets mysterious seeds in the mail. St. Jimmy applauds the return of the Dragon Capsule. D'Viddy hops aboard a SpaceX Starship. Consumption: Mr. Pold - The Karate Kid St. Jimmy - Diani & Devine Meet the Apocalypse, Takers, Money Heist: Part 1, Romeo + Juliet D'Viddy - The Umbrella Academy season 2, Logan Lucky Music Provided By: Greg Gibbs / Most Guitars Are Made of Trees Jenny Mayhem / Could Be JG Hackett / Feel the Pain Party People in a Can / Surfing With My 2 Little Brothers The Audacity / Awake White Life / Second Look

¡Y ahora, una nueva entrega de Barbas Basadas Podcast! Los muchachos de la Dragon Capsule volvieron para enterarse que hay nuevos episodios de Barbas Basadas...tremendo. Se viene nuevo DLC de Blasphemous, y lo nuevo del Battletoads. Luego, un nuevo y pequeño tip para el MTG Dejando los juegos, Ale se centra en contarte la onda de la serie BEAT e inventamos un nuevo drinking game con la página web de Berghaintrainer. Tricota de Primer Atisbo, hoy: The Midnight Gospel. Increiblemente, además de ver BEAT, vimos doblete de Charlize Theron: Atomic Blonde y The Old Guard. Para finalizar, y retomando la batuta histórica del anterior episodio, José nos recomienda como sumergirse en el mundo de la Antigua Roma. Enjoy! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/barbasbasadas/support

Joe, Tim, and Ben talk about Elons promises for Neuralink, Tesla's expansion to Texas and beyond, and a slew of recent Mars launches. Read more from the articles we referenced: Vulcan Heavy?!?! - https://twitter.com/Erdayastronaut/status/1286124364920950785?s=20 SpaceX Re-using Dragon Capsule - https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1286312153193029633 Austin Gigafactory Photos - https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/22/21334860/tesla-cybertruck-factory-austin-texas-location-model-y UAE launches their first Mars Probe - https://everydayastronaut.com/al-amal-emirates-mars-mission-prelaunch-preview/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBMHeMwvRYA Tianwen-1 Launch to Mars - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S88DiWoIy7M https://everydayastronaut.com/prelaunch-preview-long-march-5-tianwen-1/ Tesla Q2 Results - https://ir.tesla.com/static-files/f41f4254-f1cc-4929-a0b6-6623b00475a6 SpaceX Anasis-II launch - https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1285326250806964225?s=20 https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1285328437847052288?s=20 (Double Catch Fairing) https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1285632260721573890?s=20 Music in your brain - https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-neuralink-stream-music-brians --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/olfpod/message

Brandons youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgMhMgu8TPwMplTYswTJvWwand company:https://www.electricautosquad.com/TESLA, THE STOCK & EVshttps://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-y-single-cast-giant-casting-machine-purchase/https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/is-teslas-model-y-crossover-the-worlds-best-car-11591365620https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/05/30/nasa-astronauts-launch-from-us-soil-for-first-time-in-nine-years/https://youtu.be/bIZsnKGV8TE Here’s a video tour within the Dragon Capsule while Doug and Bob were on their trip to meet up with the ISS: https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/05/31/watch-the-astronauts-give-a-tour-of-their-new-crew-dragon-spacecraft/ And lastly how would you like to try your hand at docking to the ISS like the astronauts? YOU CAN!! Here’s a link to the simulator the crew used to train for this mission: https://iss-sim.spacex.com https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/spacex-photos-demo-2 https://spacenews.com/spacex-launches-eighth-starlink-mission-first-visorsat-satellite/http://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/ESA_moves_ahead_on_low-cost_reusable_rocket_enginehttps://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1266442087848960000 Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/talkingtesla)

It's likely fair to move SpaceX out of the realm of “start-up” or “potential player.”Last weekend, the company worked alongside NASA to send NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to space and board them onto the International Space Station, marking the Dragon Capsule and Falcon 9 rocket the first commercially developed spacecraft to achieve this milestone.The launch also marked the first launch of humans into space since 2011, and it brought around 10 million live viewers across all broadcast channels.This is obviously an important moment for space flight, particularly in terms of reusability, as the Falcon 9 returned to Earth successfully and landed on a drone ship. While it won't be reused, similar rockets in the future certainly could be.What impact could this SpaceX success have on the future of space exploration? Could trips to the Moon and even to Mars someday be viable? Is a commercially backed model the future of NASA's work?On this Business Casual snippet, hosts Daniel Litwin, Tyler Kern and Taylor Bagley tackle those complicated questions.

Football is coming back and no one is more excited than former player Paul Beesley. The lack of atmosphere is a worry though as seen at RB Salzburg and on the ISS with the Dragon Capsule. But amongst all the questions about how and if and when, Jim has one question that's really bothering him - Who's the chairman of QPR? On The Left Side is written and produced by Ant McGinley & Jim Salveson. The theme music was written and performed by Katalina Kicks. Incidental music covered by Creative Commons 3.0: Between Dragons and Humans and On Top of the mountain by Steffen Daum, Asking Questions by Rafael Krux. Follow @ontheleftside @antmcginley @Mr_jimbob on twitter

In this episode, we cover some Orbital News to cover what's new in the Space Industry. SpaceX just returned their Dragon Capsule from CRS-18 safely, the United Launch Alliance (ULA) had their last launch of the Delta IV Medium rocket and we discuss it's replacement, the Vulcan Centaur Booster. There's also some insight into a potential option for the Lunar Gateway thanks to a tweet from Eric Berger. Then we go over my thoughts on aliens for the first time in a segment dedicated to the topic. I also share my thoughts on the microbiome and it's role in our lives, including the mystery of who came first - humans or the microbiome? Who was the first alien to the planet? A fun episode to put together - hope you enjoy! Hope you have a great week - don't forget to reach out if you have any questions or want a topic covered on the podcast! https://www.space.com/spacex-dragon-crs-18-returns-to-earth.html Last ULA Launch of Delta IV Medium Booster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AgiyxDoXtE More info on Vulcan Centaur https://www.ulalaunch.com/rockets/vulcan-centaur Voting for new ULA Rocket - https://www.universetoday.com/119555/you-can-vote-to-name-americas-new-rocket-from-ula/ Leonard Nimoys passing https://apple.news/AJkfcUe95SPSb7qDSmlgj4Q https://apple.news/A9mTE__tdNd2QhoE9JxtFmg Eric Berger's tweet about Sierra Nevada' Corps Lunar Gateway prototype: More great info to talk about in the tweet chain https://twitter.com/sciguyspace/status/1164184942978502656?s=21 audibletrial.com/todayinspace for a free audiobook. This week's recommendation: Chasing the Moon by Alan Andres and Robert Stone Follow us @todayinspacepod on Instagram and Twitter for more space and science Follow us @ag3dprinting on Instagram and Twitter to learn about 3D printing! Facebook Page /TodayInSpacePodcast todayinspace.net

On this episode of the Engineering podcast as you accompany me on the drive to work: Elon Musk Spacex dock with the International Space Station with Dragon Capsule. What can we learn from this feat as Engineers to become better problem solvers? Find out in this episode of the Engineering Podcast. If you enjoyed this episode please share it and subscribe for more! To have your question answered head to https://www.sariodev.com/engineeringirl. Remember to subscribe and for more head to https://www.engineeringinreallife.com and become a member of the Engineering IRL Community. Facebook: www.Facebook.com/engineerIRL Twitter: www.Twitter.com/engineering_irl Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/engineeringinreallife To know more about our partnerships and how to get in touch with the show visit the top engineering podcast.

In this latest marvellous and riveting episode we are going to first travel into the cold, quiet and overcrowded outer space. That’s right, we are going into earth orbit and visiting the ISS (International Space Station) where Space X has just docked the new Dragon Capsule. This is the next step in a flight to the moon in 2023, still trying to get a ticket if anyone has one. The capsule was only a test with a dummy aboard, and no, not Trump. Next up is the fast approaching final season of Game of Thrones – season 8 – with what is looking like a record breaking battle scene that took weeks to film. This is expected to be more epic than Helms Deep, even the extended edition. Then we look at the fact that Anthem is hard crashing consoles and systems around the world. Cue the music “Queen – Another One Bites The Dust.” That’s right folks, EA has struck again, and this time it gets personal with systems and consoles being bricked by this latest screw up. There is mention of compensation floating around, so hopefully word will spread before too many systems are wrecked. Then we have the games of the week, the weekly shout outs, birthdays, remembrances and events of interest from this week in history. As always we would welcome any feedback, suggestions or whatever. Until next week, stay safe, look out for each other and stay hydrated.EPISODE NOTES:SpaceX Docking - https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/hard-capture-is-complete-spacex-capsule-docks-with-international-space-station/news-story/570efb7ec61650520a5ccef2732229dbGame of Thrones Season 8 - https://bgr.com/2019/03/04/game-of-thrones-season-8-spoilers-the-battle-of-winterfell-detailed/Anthem shuts consoles down - https://twistedvoxel.com/anthem-full-system-level-crashes-refund/Games Currently playingBuck– Skyrim - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - https://store.steampowered.com/app/72850/The_Elder_Scrolls_V_Skyrim/DJ– Apex Legends - https://www.ea.com/games/apex-legendsProfessor– Tetris 99 - https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/tetris-99-switchOther topics DiscussedSoyuz (Russian spacecraft)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_(spacecraft)Soyuz Space Crew Launch Failure 2018- https://www.space.com/42117-soyuz-abort-crew-launch-failure-2018-coverage.htmlTrump congratulating SpaceX- https://www.space.com/trump-hails-spacex-crew-dragon-success.htmlTrump’s Apple Blunder- https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/donald-trump-makes-awkward-blunder-with-apple-ceos-name/video/971ea09386b95981d3cfe0c6396000f8?nk=566c96d427a8dc7faa082c6bd4a1a92c-1551954567- https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/06/president-trump-calls-apple-ceo-tim-apple-instead-of-tim-cook.htmlNASA leadership- https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-leadership/Delta-v (change in velocity)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-vUS Army’s No Kill AI Public Relations move- https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2019/03/us-army-assures-public-that-robot-tank-system-adheres-to-ai-murder-policy/Blue Origin Grasshopper rockets- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper_(rocket)- https://www.theverge.com/2015/11/24/9793220/blue-origin-vs-spacex-rocket-landing-jeff-bezos-elon-muskSpace industry in South Australia- https://www.spaceconnectonline.com.au/launch/2116-south-australia-uniting-space-industry-for-crcHow Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen are related- https://www.thisisinsider.com/game-of-thrones-jon-snow-and-daenerys-targaryen-related-aunt-nephew-2017-3Walking 10,000 steps per day- https://www.livescience.com/43956-walking-10000-steps-healthy.htmlComparisons between Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Battle of Helm’s Deep and Games of Thrones Battle of Winterfell- http://www.darkhorizons.com/thrones-final-battle-to-outdo-helms-deep/Mass Effect 3 (2012 video game)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Effect_3Brain Bug (Starship Troopers Arachnid)- https://starshiptroopers.fandom.com/wiki/Brain_BugWindows 98 rollover bug- https://www.cnet.com/news/date-rollover-bug-in-windows-98/Anthem Demo problems- https://www.polygon.com/2019/1/27/18199405/anthem-vip-demo-down-bioware-fix-infinite-loading-errors-pc-ps4-xbox-oneUhtred (Last Kingdom character)- https://the-last-kingdom.fandom.com/wiki/UhtredHidden chamber found under the Great Pyramid of Giza- https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/scientists-discover-hidden-chamber-in-the-great-pyramid-of-giza/news-story/d6afdc5ca473b80f9eee689b19b1f3e1Shoutouts4 Mar 2019 - Playstation 2 turns 19 - https://www.siliconera.com/2019/03/04/playstation-2-celebrates-its-19th-birthday-today-what-were-your-favorite-ps2-games/4 Mar 2019 – John Candy died 25 years ago - https://www.thespec.com/whatson-story/9202816-john-candy-s-enduring-legacy-25-years-after-his-death/5 Mar 1558 - Smoking tobacco introduced into Europe by Spanish physician Francisco Fernandes - http://www.stevenlberg.info/today/18765 Mar 1953 - Mass Murderer Stalin Goes to His Grave - https://www.onthisday.com/articles/mass-murderer-stalin-goes-to-his-graveRemembrances4 Mar 2019 – Luke Perry, American actor who played as Dylan McKay on the TV series Beverly Hills, 90210 from 1990 to 1995, and again from 1998 to 2000. He also starred as Fred Andrews on the CW series Riverdale and had guest roles on notable shows such as Criminal Minds, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Simpsons, and Will & Grace. He died of a stroke at 52 in Burbank, California - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Perry4 Mar 2019 - Christopher Alan Pallies, American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, King Kong Bundy. He is best known for his appearances in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in the mid-1980s and mid-1990s. Bundy wrestled in the main event of WrestleMania 2 in 1986, facing Hulk Hogan in a steel cage match for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship. While there is no official cause of death, he died in Glassboro, New Jersey at 61 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kong_Bundy4 Mar 2019 – Keith Flint, English vocalist and dancer most associated with the electronic dance act The Prodigy. Starting out as a dancer, he became the frontman of the group and performed on the group's two UK number one singles, "Firestarter" and "Breathe" both released in 1996. He took his own life at 49 in Great Dunmow, Essex - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Flint5 Mar 1827 - Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, Italianphysicist,chemist, and a pioneer of electricity and power, who is credited as the inventor of the electric battery and the discoverer of methane. He invented the Voltaic pile in 1799, and reported the results of his experiments in 1800 in a two-part letter to the President of the Royal Society. With this invention Volta proved that electricity could be generated chemically and debunked the prevalent theory that electricity was generated solely by living beings. Volta's invention sparked a great amount of scientific excitement and led others to conduct similar experiments which eventually led to the development of the field of electrochemistry. The SI unit of electric potential is named in his honour as the volt. He died at 82 in Como, Lombardy-Venetia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_VoltaFamous Birthdays5 Mar 1910 - Momofuku Ando, Taiwanese-Japanese inventor and businessman born in Imperial Japanese Taiwan who founded Nissin Food Products Co., Ltd.. He is known as the inventor of instant noodles and the creator of the brands, Top Ramen and Cup Noodles. Born in Japanese Taiwan, Empire of Japan (now Puzi,Chiayi County,Taiwan,Republic of China) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momofuku_Ando5 Mar 1934 - Daniel Kahneman,Israeli-American psychologist and economist notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, as well as behavioural economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with Vernon L. Smith). His empirical findings challenge the assumption of human rationality prevailing in modern economic theory. Born in Mandatory Palestine -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kahneman5 Mar 1974 – Eva Mendes, American actress, model and businesswoman. Her acting career began in the late 1990s, with a series of roles in B films such as Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998) and Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000). Mendes's performance in Training Day (2001) marked a turning point in her career, and led to parts in the commercially successful films 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) and Hitch (2005), the latter of which made her one of the first minority actors to play the lead in a mainstream romantic comedy. She starred in Ghost Rider (2007) and The Spirit (2008), both film adaptations of comics, and ventured into more dramatic territory with We Own the Night (2007), Bad Lieutenant (2009), Last Night (2010), and The Place Beyond the Pines (2012). Mendes has appeared in several music videos for artists like Will Smith, and has also been an ambassador for brands, including Calvin Klein,Cartier,Reebok,Pantene shampoo, Morgan, and Peek & Cloppenburg. She has designed for New York & Company and is the creative director of CIRCA Beauty, a makeup line sold at Walgreens. Born in Miami, Florida - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Mendes6 Mar 1966 - Alan Davies, English stand-up comedian, writer and actor. He has played the title role in the BBC mystery drama series Jonathan Creek since 1997, and has been the only permanent panellist on the BBC panel show QI since 2003, outlasting hosts Stephen Fry (2003–16) and Sandi Toksvig (2016–present) who took over after Fry's exit. Born in Loughton, Essex - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_DaviesEvents of Interest5 Mar 1872 – George Westinghouse Jr patents the railway air brake.-http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/111/p/120861/1378079.aspx-http://www.patent-invent.com/air_brake_patent.html-http://www.freepatentsonline.com/124405.pdf5 Mar 1904 - Nikola Tesla describes the process of the ball lightning formation in Electrical World and Engineer - https://www.wired.com/2010/03/0305tesla-ball-lightning/5 Mar 1975 - Homebrew Computer Club is established in a Silicon Valley garage. From its ranks will emerge industry pioneers like Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak and hacker John Draper, aka Captain Crunch.- https://www.wired.com/2009/03/march-5-1975-a-whiff-of-homebrew-excites-the-valley-2/- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrew_Computer_Club5 Mar 1979 – NASA’s Voyager 1 makes its closest approach to Jupiter coming within 172,000 miles of the planet’s surface. - https://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4408335/Voyager-1-makes-closest-approach-to-Jupiter--March-5-19795 Mar 1981 – The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81IntroArtist – Goblins from MarsSong Title – Super Mario - Overworld Theme (GFM Trap Remix)Song Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GNMe6kF0j0&index=4&list=PLHmTsVREU3Ar1AJWkimkl6Pux3R5PB-QJFollow us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/NerdsAmalgamated/Email - Nerds.Amalgamated@gmail.comTwitter - https://twitter.com/NAmalgamatedSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6Nux69rftdBeeEXwD8GXrSiTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/top-shelf-nerds/id1347661094RSS - http://www.thatsnotcanonproductions.com/topshelfnerdspodcast?format=rss

In unserer LÄFAZ (längsten Folge aller Zeiten) ratschen wir heute über eine Publikation über den Autonomiekonvent an der Marc mitgearbeitet hat (ab 10m25s), den erfolgreichen Start der Dragon Capsule von SpaceX (34m23s) und vermeintlich sicheren Passwörtern (42m33s). Unser Gast im "Studio" ist diesmal Mara Mantinger, die uns ein Paper über den Gender Pay Gap vorstellt (ab 53m11s), wo die Studienautoren herausgefunden haben, dass dieser sowohl von Männern, als auch Frauen (!) als gerecht empfunden wird. Warum das so ist? Reinhören.

USB4, 1660ti, Samsung Hardware Announcements, Folding Phones, Anthem's Plight, Tesla Model Y, 35k Model 3, Vita is dead, Huwawei Mate X, The Fallen Order debut date, Space X and the Dragon Capsule, GameCore could be Xbox games on your PC

On this very special episode 82, we recap the incredible journey our coffee has taken from humble beginnings to launch into space. Jeff and Dustin recap how this idea became reality and what led to Death Wish Coffee heading to the International Space Station. Jeff was selected to be a part of the NASA Social Event surrounding the CRS-15 Mission and recaps his adventure to NASA Kennedy Space Center. He got to learn about the various science experiments that were also packed n the rocket along with supplies, meet members of the NASA Social and Press team, and tour some of the facilities including the massive Vehicle Assembly Building. Then get ready fro actual audio (and video) of the launch from Jeff's various cameras as well as the feeds from NASA and SpaceX as the Dragon Capsule headed to the space station. The adventure culminated with meeting retired astronaut and artist Nicole Stott in person at the Kennedy Space Center, and Dustin and the rest of Death Wish hosting a launch party at headquarters. For full video of everything talked about on this podcast along with photos, links and more head to deathwishcoffee.com/nasa

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My part of Colorado got a fair bit of snow this afternoon which put me behind schedule with today's episode. Longer drive time plus shoveling isn't overly fun. Thank you for making me part of your daily routine, I appreciate your time and your ears! If you could do me a favor and leave a review for the podcast, I'd appreciate it! If you take a screenshot of your review and send it to @johnmulnix, pretty much anywhere on the Internet, I will send you a Space Shot sticker and a thank you! Be cool like Elisabeth and score a sweet sticker :D You can send me questions and connect with me on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter, by clicking one of the links below. Facebook (https://m.facebook.com/thespaceshot/) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/johnmulnix/) Twitter (https://twitter.com/johnmulnix) I've also got a call in number that I'm going to be testing here soon, so keep an eye out for that! Thanks to everyone that's subscribed to the podcast. If you could do me a favor and leave a review for the podcast, I'd appreciate it! If you take a screenshot of your review and send it to @johnmulnix, pretty much anywhere on the Internet, I will send you a Space Shot sticker and a thank you! Episode Links: NASA- Commercial Crew and Cargo Programs (https://www.nasa.gov/offices/c3po/home/index.html) NASA- Contracts for Commercial Crew and Cargo Services (https://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/news/contracts/index.html) CRS-13 Press Kit (http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/crs13presskit12_11.pdf) NASA sees “equivalent risk” of flying reused SpaceX booster- Jeff Foust (http://spacenews.com/nasa-sees-equivalent-risk-of-flying-reused-spacex-booster/)

Today's episode has some ULA and SpaceX news, plus black holes. Thanks to everyone that's subscribed to the podcast. If you could do me a favor and leave a review for the podcast, I'd appreciate it! If you take a screenshot of your review and send it to @johnmulnix, pretty much anywhere on the Internet, I will send you a Space Shot sticker and a thank you! Connect with me on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, just click the links below. Facebook (https://m.facebook.com/thespaceshot/) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/johnmulnix/) Twitter (https://twitter.com/johnmulnix) Episode Links: NASA Science to Return to Earth aboard SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft- NASA.gov (https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-science-to-return-to-earth-aboard-spacex-dragon-spacecraft-0) STS-54 Video Recap (http://www.nss.org/resources/library/shuttlevideos/shuttle53.htm) Massive Black Holes Dwell in Most Galaxies, According to Hubble Census- January 13th, 1997 (http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/1997-01/10-black-holes) Researchers Catch Supermassive Black Hole Burping - Twice (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/images/researchers-catch-supermassive-black-hole-burping-twice.html) Chandra- Double Burp Press Release (http://chandra.si.edu/photo/2018/j1354/) American Astronomical Society Website (https://aas.org/) Anatomy of a Black Hole (http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/Cyberia/NumRel/BlackHoleAnat.html)

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SpaceX Big F*c#ing Rocket, Halo Wars 2 Update, Halo 3 Birthday, Crystal PS4 Dualshock Controllers, History Channel Knightfall, Wasteland 2 Directors Cut, Fortnite, Ruiner

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Episode Links: The CRS-12 launch is scheduled for 12:31 p.m. EDT on Monday, August 14th. After the launch occurs this link won't show the live feed. SpaceX Webcast (http://www.spacex.com/webcast) One week from now I will be at the Homestead National Monument for the Eclipse! Follow me on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. Search @johnmulnix or The Space Shot. Facebook Link (https://www.facebook.com/thespaceshot/) OCISLY- Of Course I Still Love You (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_spaceport_drone_ship) JCSAT-16 Mission Overview (http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/spacex_jcsat16_press_kit.pdf) JCSAT-16 Hosted Webcast (Starts at 20 minutes in) (https://youtu.be/QZTCEO0gvLo?t=20m46s)

ON THIS WEEK'S EPISODE... Alex talks about finding a balance when working towards your goals because otherwise you end up kicking your own ass. In Orbital News, we talk more about what Kate Rubins and Jeff Williams have been up to on the ISS and what science the CRS-9 Dragon Capsule returned back to Earth! ENJOY! This Podcast is brought to you by AG3D Printing:     Got a school project? Idea? Business Proposal? NEED A really cool gift? Let this Engineer 3D-print your ideas into reality! www.AG3D-PRINTING.com SUPPORT THE PODCAST: Shop using our Amazon link! AMAZON.COM! Just click on this & Shop! Set it & forget it: Bookmark it in your browser!  Listen, Buy or Play our first single - "Pluto, the Misunderstood." on Spotify, iTunes, Youtube, SoundCloud & more! SPACE LINKS: SpaceX Dragon Splashes Down with Crucial NASA Research Samples https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/spacex-dragon-splashes-down-with-crucial-nasa-research-samples Spacewalk Highlights - International Docking Adapter Installed On ISS | Video http://www.space.com/33814-spacewalk-highlights-international-docking-adaptor-installed-on-iss-video.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=socialfbspc&cmpid=social_spc_514630 Spacewalk Concludes After Commercial Crew Port Installation https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2016/08/19/spacewalk-concludes-after-commercial-crew-port-installation/ NASA Astronaut Cumuliative Days In Space Record Holders http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/cumulative_tis_record_holders_portal2.jpg Kate Rubins Interview: Space Station Crew Member Discusses Life and Work Aboard the Outpost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eDAb9TVzn0

On this episode, we start by discussing the delay, once again, of Discovery on STS-133, which is now scheduled for No Earlier Than February 3rd, 2011. We then go on to discuss our main topic, which was the successful launch and re-entry of the Falcon 9/Dragon Capsule launched by SpaceX from Florida on December 8th at 10:47am EST. Included are the team's remarks as well as audio from the post-splashdown news conference with SpaceX founder Elon Musk. Once again, we congratulate them on their successful test. We then move on to discussing the recent discovery and controversy over life found in California which can live on Arsenic, an element which is lethal to all known living creatures. Lastly, we discuss the return of the US Military's X-37B which spent 200 days in space doing work undisclosed to the public. Also, be sure to check out a holiday gift idea Mark has at the end. To visit the Yahoo! story discussed in the show, please visit http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20101208/sc_yblog_thelookout/scientists-poking-holes-in-nasas-arsenic-eating-microbe-discovery To see Felisa Simon-Wolf's Blog, check out http://www.ironlisa.com/ and for Dr. Rosie Redfield's post, check out http://rrresearch.blogspot.com/2010/12/arsenic-associated-bacteria-nasas.html To order Wings in Orbit, please check out http://shopnasa.com/store/product/6604/-Wings-In-Orbit-Hard-Cover/ Host this week: Sawyer Rosenstein. Panel Members: Gene Mikulka and Mark Ratterman Show Recorded - 12/9/2010