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Golden Dome is meant to preemptively attack China's ICBMs "left of launch", for which they are building anti-satellite rockets and microwave systems as article notes, https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3342443/chin...

Uppercase is necessary for an acronym.

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The real concern was Russia, given SpaceX has always been a MIC project, now publicly manifest as "Golden Dome" .. a program which undermines M.A.D. and obviously greatly incentives sabotage. There just happened to be a ULA building nearby that was in range and investigated as a possible vector of attack.

More like he doesn't know how to keep things classified

Packed with Palantir spyware too?

"In 2019, Donald Trump said the satellites would also carry offensive weapons."

SpaceX has a Golden Dome contract,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dome_(missile_defense_s...

That's basically exactly this ^

While most every other articles on Tesla (historically) had been fawning megafans.

The reporting on Elektrek is top notch. They care deeply about real sustainable energy and transportation and are willing to dig deep past the marketing and plainly report the facts. I can't count the number of times they've had exclusive scoops or found insightful angles nobody else was concerning.

It sounds like they should be called "indicator markets" rather than "prediction markets", as the data shows they largely just summarize the current knowledge, with little predictive ability.

It was a finite element simulation of a CT-scanned violin, but as they note,

“If there’s anything that’s sounding mechanical to it, it’s because we’re using the exact same time function, or standard way of plucking, for each note,” says Makris, who is himself a lute player. “A musician will adapt the way they’re plucking, to put a little more feeling on certain notes than others. But there could be subtleties which we could incorporate and refine.”

Yes it's real: https://banksy.co.uk/in.html (licensing)

I think it deserves credit for being both simple and original.

Is this how standards are formed today? Not RFCs, but registering domains for SEO?

Similar to Ryanair in Europe

Don't forget the $3.6T https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dome_(missile_defense_s...

Related, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47895236

X stands for intercept

Reusable rockets started with DC-X. SpaceX's first contract was for DARPA's FALCON Project (predates their rocket name). They're not exactly hiding intentions.

I always use the phrase "Let's do X" instead of asking (Could you...) or suggesting it do something. I don't see problems with it being motivated.

Trying to posture for Golden Dome, but politically he is likely locked out of the contract.

Well this is roughly 2 thousand times higher power than a Starlink user terminal.

Aand of course it's open source, https://github.com/open-space-sdr/main/

AI is just another layer of abstraction. I'm sure the assembly language folks were grumbling about functions as being too abstracted at one point

This is quite a milestone for open silicon. Having a completely auditable path from RTL down to GDS targeting the GF180MCU via wafer.space is no small feat-especially pulling it all together with a Nix-integrated toolchain and Dart for the hardware generation.

On the I/O side, getting even a basic 400MHz oversampled SerDes into a first-gen test chip puts this way ahead of most academic open FPGA efforts.

Really looking forward to seeing the Terra family expand and how the test chips perform.

looks like there have been updates since then: https://moonrf.com/updates/

Wild hardware flex for a garage project. Reverse-engineering the Pi 5's MIPI to push 5.6 Gbps from custom MASH sigma-delta ADCs to a Lattice ECP5 FPGA to the Raspberry Pi is serious engineering. The idea that the RF receiver looks like a "camera" to the Pi while the transmitter is a "display" is super creative. Getting a 1.5 kW, 240-antenna EME array for $2,499 is actually cheap for something like this.

Their standalone 4-antenna tiles (https://moonrf.com/updates/) show off some killer apps, like 30 fps spatial RF visualization and NEON-optimized drone video interception.

I'm rolling my eyes at the "Agentic Transceiver" part, though. It is highly doubtful that an onboard AI casually writes, debugs, and compiles a real-time C app with analog video color sync recovery and decode in ten minutes.

Motivation has declined with realization that it's not about Mars, but normal military industrial complex drudgery..

https://ioc.exchange/@muskfiles

Musk's grandfather was a leader in the Technocracy Movement and tried to overthrow the Canadian govt before being expelled to South Africa:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_N._Haldeman

His real benefactors are not the public...https://ioc.exchange/@muskfiles/116333241408716236