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Physics has a number that Richard Feynman called "magic," and nobody knows why it is what it is. This week a physicist published a formula that hits it to ten digits. I'm not a physics expert.

So the question of the day is: one permanent Moon bunk, four applicants, a scientist, a miner, a medic and a teacher. Who gets it, now that staying matters more than visiting?

Classic Cosmos of the Week: NGC 1827, a spiral seen edge-on, about 37 million light-years away in Columba, the Dove. Rusty dust lanes run the full length, with blue star-forming patches tucked along the

KiwiThinker Flashback Today is CSD 3445.8421, Oct 18 2026 Two years ago I said Starship could start putting Starlinks up before SpaceX recovered a single ship. Flight 14 last month did just that: first

So the question of the day is: would any country let the fully kitted Roadster near a public road? Thrusters and all. Not for a stunt, just for the moment something's in the way and you need to hop clear.

I had a surprising experience with Grok Chat the other day. I asked it to do something fairly involved - downloading and processing material. Instead of trying to handle everything itself, it handed the

"My responses are limited. You must ask the right questions." I, Robot. Many talk about crafting the perfect prompt for AI or SI. Get the wording right, add a role, set some constraints, and

Foto by Deborah Rainford from Unsplash I've been testing AI studio during the past days. I wanted to deeply try one of the existing AI tools to see if I would be able to develop a webapp from scratch only

Ever read a sci-fi novel that renames every unit of time and distance? I recently have and find it quite distracting. Years become orbits or cycles, kilometres become something unpronounceable. The

Get the noun right Let's get the descriptions right. Starship mission profile flights versus space infrastructure ones. Let's talk about old think vs new reality. Starship tankers are not part of the mission

So the question of the day is: who gives way, the rockets or the planes? SpaceX is asking for up to 456 Starship launches a year from Starbase. At that pace a closure stops being a one-off and starts looking

Introduction: This is the fifth article in this i\series of articles walking my readers through how I used an old mac mini t run a lightning node. The so it is very slow boot up or turn on, compared to

Not AI/SI. Not Mars. Yes, New Zealand. Maybe it could be the next Mars simulation zone. I'm happy to be local coordinator🙂

13,000 Starlink satellites launched. That number still takes a moment to sink in. The milestone came with Group 15-25, 27 V2 Mini satellites off Vandenberg at 1:28pm NZDT on Tue 13 Oct, on B1088's 20th

Classic Cosmos How many moons can you count in this one? Five. Our Moon in the foreground and Jupiter's four big ones lined up behind it. Ganymede, Io, Callisto and Europa all bigger or almost as big as

Could Ship 40 be reused? Yes in theory. It survived the full flight profile, a soft splashdown, weeks floating in the Indian Ocean, and the long trip home on Forte. The stainless steel held together and

So the question of the day is: Will Ship 40 ever fly again? First Ship to come home intact. 75 days at sea. Now it is back at Starbase. Re-fly it. Cut it open. Put it on a stand. Or something else?

Anyone else signing up for this Optimus android model? I think I'll call it Optimus Primo.🤔 For all those serious jobs one needs doing. If only.

Well my Grok bot claimed its email address and wouldn't you know it, it was useful the very next morning. I got a support email from something my grok bot was interacting with that needed attention. Just

Although it is still a work in progress, I wanted to share the creation process in case anyone want to try an test. You can play with the test in this link. As with everything in life, it is hard to get