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REPORT: White House orders NASA to destroy satellite used for monitoring climate change, according to NPR The censorship campaign goes to space. I guess if you can’t SEE the climate changing, then it ISN’T changing. The stupidity is exquisite.

A retired NASA engineer who had worked on the Space Shuttle program for 25 years was hired by SpaceX at age 62. He described the first week as the most disorienting experience of his professional life. At NASA, a design change required 3 meetings, 2 committees, a review board, and 6 to 18 months of documentation. At SpaceX, his new supervisor said "if it works, build it. If it doesn't, change it by Friday." He sat at his desk after the first day and called his wife. He told her he felt like a man who had been swimming with ankle weights for 25 years and someone just cut them off. He could move. He could decide. He could build something in the morning and test it in the afternoon. The constraint that he had accepted as the nature of aerospace engineering turned out to be the nature of bureaucracy. Within 6 months he had contributed to more design iterations than he had completed in his last 5 years at NASA. Not because he was working harder. Because the time between having an idea and testing the idea collapsed from months to hours. The same brain. The same knowledge. A different operating system. He described a specific moment where he proposed a modification to a Raptor engine component. At NASA, the proposal would have entered a queue. At SpaceX, the modification was machined by the end of the day and tested by the following morning. He watched his idea become a physical object in 18 hours. At NASA, 18 hours would not have been enough to schedule the first meeting to discuss whether to schedule a meeting. He told an interviewer: "I didn't get smarter when I went to SpaceX. I got faster. The intelligence was always there. The system was in the way." The difference between SpaceX and NASA is not talent. NASA has extraordinary talent. The difference is the time between a thought and a test. SpaceX compresses it. NASA elongates it. The same engineer produces 10x more at SpaceX than at NASA because the bottleneck was never the engineer. It was the meetings about the meetings about the work.

Starlink in India would enable high-speed, affordable Internet connectivity for those who can’t afford current prices or who don’t have a connection at all!

While observing the universe, @NASAHubble caught a galaxy cluster smiling for the camera. 😊 The smile lines are arcs caused by an effect known as gravitational lensing, where massive structures warp spacetime with their powerful gravitational forces and act as a cosmic lens. https://t.co/R3YMVpOqt4

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Watch Falcon 9 launch 27 @Starlink satellites to orbit from California https://t.co/9Pauv9VbZD

The ROTHSCHILDS have just begun to lose control of the weather. For 47 years, they have controlled the skies through a network of 22 weather modification stations that could direct hurricanes, droughts, floods, and earthquakes, on demand, to any place on Earth. The program was called "THRONE CLIMATE" and was funded by a labyrinth of NGOs, carbon credit systems, and "green energy" foundations, all connected to the same family office in Geneva that has controlled European banks since 1815. A few days ago, the last station was disconnected, seized in a military operation involving 6 nations that have never publicly acknowledged working together. The weather is no longer a weapon. For the first time since 1979, the skies belong to no one. Every "natural disaster" of the last 47 years had a signature, a digital fingerprint embedded in the ionosphere that preceded it. HAARP researchers have detected it for decades. They were ridiculed, but they were right about everything: Hurricane Katrina: frequency trace detected 72 hours before impact; The 2010 Haiti earthquake has the same frequency signature, originating from a station in Venezuela; The 2011 earthquake, signature attributed to a flagless ship operating in the Pacific. The ship's registration, obtained via "QFS maritime tracking," belongs to a company conveniently located in the Cayman Islands. The company's sole director: a family trust of the Rothschild family. They didn't predict disasters, they ordered them. Why control the weather? Because the weather controls everything. Food prices, insurance markets, government stability, migration systems, election outcomes. They didn't need an army. They didn't need murders. They needed rain or drought in the right place at the right time. $4.2 trillion in "natural disaster" damages since 1979. Betting on the destruction they created. Harvesting the suffering they caused. For the first time in half a century, the rain will fall where it should fall. FOLLOW ME, THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING.

Many of you are talking about the “space jellyfish” following this morning’s launch from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. More than 6,300 scientific investigations and cargo are on their way to the @Space_Station, as part of SpaceX's 35th commercial resupply services mission for NASA. A jellyfish happens near sunrise or sunset when the exhaust plume from the rocket becomes brightly illuminated, creating a glowing shape resembling a jellyfish. Show us where you captured the jellyfish?

We’re getting America underway on nuclear power in space and ushering in the era of a Nuclear NASA. With the signing of an MOU with @ENERGY, we’re taking the next giant leap toward exploring the outer solar system and sending American astronauts to Mars. Fission power will help us travel farther, operate longer, and power more capable scientific instruments.

Our next uncrewed resupply mission is scheduled to lift off to the @Space_Station no earlier than Tuesday, Oct. 13. It will bring science, supplies, and equipment to the orbiting lab, including a new set of solar arrays. Get details on the mission: https://t.co/pUn5CDiErn https://t.co/RP3UgMenmd

There is a flower called prairie smoke (Geum triflorum). In spring it hangs its head in a soft pink bell. After it is pollinated, that flower lifts and the styles stretch into long, feathery plumes, the pink whiskers in this photo. Those plumes are the plant’s way of moving on. Each one stays attached to a seed, catches the wind, and carries it away from the parent. A whole patch of them looks like smoke drifting over the prairie, which is how the plant got its name.

Gwynne Shotwell, the president of SpaceX who has run the company's operations for over 20 years, once described the exact moment she realized Elon Musk was not a billionaire playing with rockets. She was interviewing for a job at this strange new company called SpaceX in 2002 and sitting across from a 31 year old internet millionaire who had never built anything physical in his life. She expected a pitch. She expected enthusiasm. She expected the kind of optimistic hand waving that billionaire hobbyists do when they want to buy their way into an industry they don't understand. What she got was a technical conversation so detailed that she realized within 15 minutes that he had taught himself rocket propulsion from textbooks. Not summaries. Not overviews. The actual orbital mechanics and propulsion physics that she had spent a career learning. He was asking her questions that only someone who had read the source material would know to ask. She said later that the moment she knew he was serious was when he corrected a number she gave him about a propellant mass fraction. He didn't correct it arrogantly. He corrected it quietly, the way someone does when they've been staring at the number for weeks and know it the way they know their own phone number. The correction was right. A 31 year old who had made his money from internet payments had taught himself enough rocket science to correct a career aerospace engineer's propellant calculation during a job interview. Not because he was showing off. Because the number mattered and the wrong number would eventually kill someone. Gwynne took the job. She has run the operational side of SpaceX for two decades. She is widely credited as the person who made SpaceX function as a business while Elon pushed the physics. The partnership began with a corrected number in a job interview. The number was right. The hire was right. The company that number eventually built has launched more rockets than any organization in human history.

THE BIGGEST LIE EVER TOLD The IPCC has nothing. Forty years of civilizational alarm. Trillions of dollars redirected. Energy systems dismantled. Farmers crushed. Children taught to fear the sky. Political freedom surrendered. Reproductive choices second-guessed. Entire economies rewired. For nothing. There is no empirical finding underneath any of it. None. Not one measurement, standing on its own, that would move a reasonable person to alarm. The entire structure is manufactured. Ask for one item. True without a model. Significant without a redefinition. Measured without extrapolation. Able to stand alone and matter to a parent, a farmer, a shipowner, an engineer, a legislator. The honest inventory is three measurements. Not one of them means anything by itself. CO₂ rose from 315 to 425 ppm since 1958. Plants grew better. Nothing bad happened that follows from the number. Humans emit about 10 GtC/yr from combustion. A flux figure. By itself it tells you nothing. CO₂ absorbs infrared on known bands. Water vapor absorbs far more. A spectroscopic line is not a consequence. That is it. The entire empirical pile. Three measurements. Zero significance. Everything else they have told you is one of three tricks. Model output passed off as observation. Climate sensitivity. Airborne fraction read as retention. Revelle-limited uptake. Millennial persistence. Attribution of warming to forcing. Catastrophic projection. None of this is measured. All of it is what model code returns when they turn its crank. Model output is the model's assumptions integrated forward. It is not testimony from nature. It never was. Definitional sleight-of-hand. Global mean surface temperature called a physical quantity. It is not. It is an area-weighted arithmetic mean of intensive readings with no thermodynamic referent. The 44 percent ratio of annual growth to annual emission relabeled as an airborne fraction and sold as retention. It carries zero information about retention. Fossil "dominance" quietly redefined from "nearly all" to "a bare majority" so the claim survives data that killed the real version. Extrapolation sold as measurement. Tide gauges spliced to altimetry and projected as acceleration. Local pH drift at a handful of stations generalized to a planetary crisis. Arctic ice loss broadcast while Antarctic stability is dropped. Retreating glaciers paraded. Advancing ones hidden. Strip the models. Strip the redefinitions. Strip the extrapolations. The pile is empty. This is the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The civilizational emergency has no empirical content. It was built by running trivial measurements through model chains and definitional swaps until the output read as apocalypse. Then it was broadcast as settled science. Then dissent was criminalized. Then careers were destroyed. Then children were terrified. Then nations were restructured. For nothing. The emperor has no clothes. The pile is empty. The alarm is a fabrication. The greatest lie ever told to the human species was told in the name of saving the planet from a trace gas that feeds every green thing that lives. That is the headline. That is the story. That is what you were never supposed to notice. Now you know.