Looking for a great fabricating partner who can help us on a large machine build project we are working on. The scope would include fabricating several of the frame components that are about 10-14’ in length. Let me know who I should be talking to.

some underappreciated changes for american manufacturers: • up to $10m in combined sba financing • repeat 504 loans for distinct projects • up to $5m in manufacturing revolving credit • 90% loan guarantees real tools to finance factories, equipment and working capital

More robots. Who wants one?

Asteroid Mining

Alex is great and we need more gears!

What’s the difference between a machine and a robot? If it makes money, we call it a machine.

Interplanetary spacecraft should always be gold. I don’t really care about thermal properties or physics. it’s all about style.

Astroforge was built on the foundation Planetary Resources laid. We’re going after the unlimited TAM

Good end to manufacturing day tours and making parts 😂

In this episode of First Principles, we'll learn about asteroids, the telescopes that find them, and the satellites that protect us against them. ✧ In 2004, astronomers discovered a new, 60-million-ton asteroid hurtling towards Earth. They scrambled the world's best telescopes, traced its path in the sky as accurately as they could, and concluded that the asteroid, 99942 Apophis, had a 2.7% chance of causing "regional devastation" here on Earth. Today, that estimate has been revised down. We now know that Apophis will make its closest pass on Friday, April 13th, 2029, missing Earth but only just barely: the asteroid will pass closer than satellites in geostationary orbit, and will be visible to the naked eye. Exactly how we know that — and what we would do if we determined an asteroid really *was* heading our way — is the focus of today's episode. In this episode, we'll visit the telescope that discovered Pluto, one of the biggest optical reflecting telescopes in the world, and the factory floor of @AstroForge, a company building satellites for asteroid mining and planetary defense. Special thanks to @MattGialich, whose connections to Lowell Observatory made this episode possible — and whose meteorite collection is the envy of space nerds everywhere. ✧ 00:00 — Asteroids & Apophis 1:08 — Pluto Discovery Telescope Overview 1:57 — Pluto Discovery, Tracking 2:34 — Pluto Discovery, Optics 3:38 — Pluto Discovery, Sensor 5:06 — Lowell Discovery Telescope Overview 5:24 — Lowell Discovery, Tracking 7:08 — Lowell Discovery, Optics 8:07 — Lowell Discovery, Sensor 9:35 — Driving the Lowell Discovery Telescope 11:26 — The @AstroForge Satellite Factory 13:46 — How AstroForge Deflects Asteroids 14:49 — AstroForge 1.5 kW Laser Demo

Time to assemble some more robots

i hear (frequently) from people who try to over-intellectualize reindustrialization through various lenses in finance, economics, labor, technology, "free" market competition, etc. it's quite simple and doesn't require hardly any justification at this point. let me paint you a picture: the final crescendo of super intelligence is total mastery of atoms, and a semi-likely multipolar world of superpowers. the intermediate step that's missing right now is to build as much net-new tech-enabled capacity as possible. the transfer of tribal and process knowledge into compute is critical and very similar to how we've learned to control self-driving cars and robots. this is not something even the smartest model can predict/simulate with the level of necessary precision for real production, and these are glaring open deficiencies in all frontier models until they have data (live factories) to feast on. that learning rate will increase vastly as a function of overall tech-enabled capacity, and potentially displace frontier labs because they lack production experience and actual capacity themselves once intelligence is commoditized. the faster we do all of this the faster we create the potential for actual abundance.

Seaglider kind of day with @regentcraft

Driving for the next three hours or so and then back again around 3:30 EST if anyone wants to call and catch up

every investor funding this garbage should be ashamed of himself

I've been storing this one for quite a while! We now officially supply chemically pure grade methane in California with our partner @westairgases. Photos are with our first externalized six pack during the spring. An insane amount of hard work went into making this happen. I try not to think too much about the blood sweat and tears of the last five years but this milestone makes it particularly sweet. westairgases.com/news/terraf… Terraform is hiring! If you're an ambitious technically minded savant, Terraform is an incredible place to get exposed to every aspect of building a hardware business from sales and hiring to design test and analysis!

We are now at 700 employees. US manufacturing is alive and well

You should go visit your local welding programs and hire the best students

There is so much work to do. It is great. Have several hundred hours of work booked on my machines alone

Having vendors who vend is a moat