# ![@somefoundersalt Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1562785792132464644.png) @somefoundersalt emperor constantine xii

emperor constantine xii posts on X about space, money, in the, spacex the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[finance](/list/finance)  [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  [countries](/list/countries)  [stocks](/list/stocks)  [social networks](/list/social-networks)  [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies)  [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  [vc firms](/list/vc-firms) 

**Social topic influence**
[space](/topic/space), [money](/topic/money), [in the](/topic/in-the), [spacex](/topic/spacex) #399, [china](/topic/china) #1133, [moon](/topic/moon), [to the](/topic/to-the), [solar](/topic/solar), [if you](/topic/if-you), [aethero](/topic/aethero) #1

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@aetherospace](/creator/undefined) [@cloudseedingtec](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@robotbeat](/creator/undefined) [@filarons](/creator/undefined) [@aiinleo](/creator/undefined) [@deltaclimbs](/creator/undefined) [@elonmusk](/creator/undefined) [@pronouncedkyle](/creator/undefined) [@flying4thewind](/creator/undefined) [@investmentshulk](/creator/undefined) [@limegpt](/creator/undefined) [@abdalrhmanhdad6](/creator/undefined) [@aetherocom](/creator/undefined) [@jpmorgan](/creator/undefined) [@jhlexpress](/creator/undefined) [@mrexits](/creator/undefined) [@crbinz](/creator/undefined) [@matsigh](/creator/undefined) [@buildwithflux](/creator/undefined)

**Top assets mentioned**
[Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [StarLink (STARL)](/topic/starlink) [StarShip (STARSHIP)](/topic/starship)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"@ArsCrypta Should mention that the Xiongnu were broken by a massive invasion launched by Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty. Prior to this campaign the Han also subjugated Greco-Bactria to procure war horses (marking the only military contact between Hellenic and Chinese societies in antiquity)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1632604642239471623)  2023-03-06T04:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"First week results. GPTFund rose to $1585 earlier in the week but GPT-4 told me to buy and hold (so it doesnt want to sell apparently) and now were down $5 $SQ is performed the worst of the GPTFund picks being 2% down this week $MRNA is the best pick being 1% up The orders have been placed My GPT-4 managed ETF is now live and running. Purchase prices are below: $TSLA @ $177.10 $NVDA @ $253.86 $SQ @ $73.05 $MRNA @ $151.19 $ARKK @ $37.95 $BOTZ @ $23.88 $ETH @ $1766.85 $BTC @ $27954.97 https://t.co/L6kQzeSmzs The orders have been placed My GPT-4 managed ETF is now live and running. Purchase"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1640115147740938240)  2023-03-26T22:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"What if you switched off the engines Like solar sails this solution only works for smaller unmanned spacecraft. Running a room-temperature (habitable) module for crew members or an onboard reactor will cause you to pop up on infrared sensors like a beacon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1664717683747635203)  2023-06-02T19:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The onboard reactors of a combat-ready ship will require very hot radiators for use when engaging. If these radiators go completely cold for the journey they will suffer enormous thermal expansion stress when activated - which can knock a ship out of action by itself"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1664717685068816384)  2023-06-02T19:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"BRICS more like Broke Retards In need of Chinese Subsidies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1678560367025217536)  2023-07-11T00:22Z [----] followers, 80.8K engagements


"Man what the fuck was going on in Ming China"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1679302089061572612)  2023-07-13T02:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"raising my seed round to outfit a retired coast guard cutter with [--] inch guns and .50s and reach $10M ARR from seized russian shipping"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1680019104789307392)  2023-07-15T00:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Hate it whenever VCs ask me what my moat is and I gotta talk about our partnerships and IP when deep down I know that my moat is that I possess the Mandate of Heaven"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1681120098679922689)  2023-07-18T01:53Z [----] followers, 145K engagements


"see through efforts to accelerate humanity into an interstellar society. colonize and conquer thousands of worlds. establish the foundations of an imperial dynasty to last ten thousand years. build a legacy that echoes until the heat death of the universe. Everyone I speak to wants to live until [---] years / [---] years but what are you guys going to do Go to a 9-5 for [---] / [---] years Invest your money in SPX and then spend it when you're [---] or whatever The length of human life has no impact if the things humans do remains the Everyone I speak to wants to live until [---] years / [---] years but"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1689303772290338816)  2023-08-09T15:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"found the most unhinged ebay seller. how the fuck does one get multiple spacesuits and a fucking space toilet to sell on eBay. what the fuck"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1690580627278442496)  2023-08-13T04:26Z [----] followers, 112.6K engagements


"@beanhowitzer this is the real uap technology that the government doesnt want you to know about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1690945695732125696)  2023-08-14T04:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"taking both pills and kicking the person asking me this dumb question in the balls stay unpredictable. become ungovernable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1691187734872838144)  2023-08-14T20:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"my greatest opponents in life have been one specific french aerospace engineer on the kerbal space program forums back in [----] the FAA and a chinese venture capital firm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1692008953096331271)  2023-08-17T03:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"as much as i despise russia it remains hard for me to not feel a twinge of sympathy for the team behind luna-25 imagine being a space engineer stuck with a shithole regime and finally getting to work on a grander dream after decades of stagnation and fail so close to success"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1693465552507879647)  2023-08-21T03:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I'm in the arena trying stuff. Some will work some won't. But always learning. You're anonymous and afraid of your own shadow. Enjoy the sidelines"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1694730268190584914)  2023-08-24T15:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"i am at the weird stage of life where i am simultaneously spending half a million to put a satellite into orbit next year while arguing with people on ebay over used laptop prices and larping as a student to use solidworks for free"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1699221075597664351)  2023-09-06T00:40Z [----] followers, 456.2K engagements


"may your descendants sing tales of how their great ancestor conquered the land of beetobee saas and crushed the armies of evil king mckinsey in a thousand years from now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1700661663723385104)  2023-09-10T00:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"got sent a applicant resume with the file name firstname_lastname_FINAL resume (28) (3).pdf bro was so real for that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1701760847620763910)  2023-09-13T00:52Z [----] followers, 34.1K engagements


"AI decels are alien saboteurs sent ahead to integrate within human society as a fifth column to cripple our technological innovation so were a easier target for future conquest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1706097771756036116)  2023-09-25T00:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"do you think roman legionnaires sat around a campfire at night talking ab stuff like hey pilus do you think our generation is losing the masculine aura of mars or i heard all the lead pipes are turning us into greek towel boys"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1706834043734774254)  2023-09-27T00:52Z [----] followers, 27.2K engagements


"gave my mom access to my ChatGPT account and found out shes making new chats for every single prompt & has created over [---] new chats in the past week alone shes not even asking it questions shes just looking stuff up on it like google"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1708599134960398586)  2023-10-01T21:45Z [----] followers, 633.8K engagements


"yall laughing at asians being rejected from every ivy are gonna regret it when one of them has a fever dream and discovers that he is the nephew of jesus christ and declares the bay area heavenly kingdom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1712595330657820845)  2023-10-12T22:25Z [----] followers, 40.3K engagements


"back in the 2000s NASA made a study called HOPE (Human Outer Planets Exploration) to look at sending astronauts to Jupiter on a nuclear magntoplasma rocket and establishing a manned base on Callisto by [----] we must RETVRN"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1718721839391031574)  2023-10-29T20:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"mfers will talk all day about building their "empire" that's a ecomm dropshipping LLC losing $2k a month importing off-brand vape pens and a robinhood account down 78% ytd"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1719875154988392809)  2023-11-02T00:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"some dude on the Kerbal Space Program forums told 7th grade me back in [----] that my hope of seeing the first interstellar probes within my lifetime was delusional will not retire until I prove that fucker wrong"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1720599254539096506)  2023-11-04T00:30Z [----] followers, 19.5K engagements


"when youre the sole space-tech hardware portco of a VC that only does software"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1720955425154281958)  2023-11-05T00:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"*email a major european design partner* i am out of office until november [--] *ping them again today* i am out of office until november [--] what the actual hell is going on in that continent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1721668629366984961)  2023-11-06T23:19Z [----] followers, 243.2K engagements


"s/o to the time I tried doordashing lunch from a spot less than a mile away and my driver proceeded to go on Homers Odyssey"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1723053738858799206)  2023-11-10T19:03Z [----] followers, 83K engagements


"@pronounced_kyle the first and last point are why so few cities can replicate SF despite many trying at cargo culting a tech hub high risk tolerance and focus on ambition over track record isnt gonna exist in some spot like the midwest. just not gonna happen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1729291799762776321)  2023-11-28T00:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"the nasa mars rovers use a rad750 cpu which can do 200-300 million operations per second we can do [---] trillion operations per sec on a compute module thats been tested to meet nasa gevs and esa ecss-e standards were building the future of space compute and its glorious"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1731197620083994953)  2023-12-03T06:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@flying4thewind in space edge processing for deep space missions specialized compute satellites imo cannot compete with Starlink/starshield"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1731245869603979775)  2023-12-03T09:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"typically you get what you pay for and higher cost Is higher quality spacex rideshare missions somehow invert this by not only having the cheapest option by far but also having the most reliable launcher of any system out there literal miracle workers in the space industry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1732865355264164173)  2023-12-07T20:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@ivan_mkrv the most optimistic estimates for starship launch costs are legitimately around estimated space elevator numbers turns out we dont need megaprojects flying the rocket back is the secret all along (would still like a space elevator tho)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1732871789246898366)  2023-12-07T21:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"the most optimistic starship estimates have them at under space elevator levels of cost in terms of $ per kg to orbit crazy how the solution all along wasnt building a Tower of Babel but just simply landing our rockets after using them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1733270076638503137)  2023-12-08T23:39Z [----] followers, 26.4K engagements


"sf makes sense when you realize a plurality of the people here are autists who learned all of their social skills from dale carnegies how to win friends and influence people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1733351350954758220)  2023-12-09T05:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@FilArons player [--] has entered the arena"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1734792896052859078)  2023-12-13T04:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@FilArons a city with nyc vibes and sf capital and gundo manufacturing (american shenzhen) would be worthy of the epithet queen of cities"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1734793746511020517)  2023-12-13T04:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@FilArons growth stage doesnt count rn dawg we all seed founders here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1734794962552926324)  2023-12-13T04:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"SF and New York and El Segundo and Miami all suck balls compared to this fifth option according to leading scholars constantinople has been the center of world innovation for over [--] centuries straight (last polled in 1203)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1734796332664291830)  2023-12-13T04:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@luke_metro if the ceo doesnt lead by example the company is ngmi (no exceptions)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1735029392466960609)  2023-12-13T20:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"if your space tech founder doesnt have this as their market slide the company is ngmi"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1736259545960415652)  2023-12-17T05:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"spent the day building it to see if my team could use it all of the instructions were in russian or on a 404ed google drive one of the pins on the EPS board also started sparking and smoking halfway through and turning red from overheating 2/10 dont buy russian cubesats"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1737321580123087226)  2023-12-20T03:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"there are two wolves inside you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1738675951846986035)  2023-12-23T21:40Z [----] followers, 11.1K engagements


"We've somehow wound up with more andurilians on our advisory board and cap table than our team has in full-time members. thanks palmer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1740531786634211713)  2023-12-29T00:34Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"there's this joke on the chinese web about how intertwined the ccp elites are with the west here goes xi summons his cabinet and announces that it is time to strike america. he proposes they nuke san francisco"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1742293470146863387)  2024-01-02T21:15Z [----] followers, 2.7M engagements


"one official raises his hand and protests "we can't do that my eldest son is a undergrad at berkeley." xi sighs and then says they will instead hit new york. another official raises his hand to state that his sister in law lives there and that his wife would murder them all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1742293471682027837)  2024-01-02T21:15Z [----] followers, 363.4K engagements


"this goes on for a bit longer before xi exasperated asks the room: "is there any city in the west where no relevant chinese people live" they all look at each other for a moment and decide to nuke guizhou province"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1742293473602965633)  2024-01-02T21:15Z [----] followers, 463.6K engagements


"my mind manifested a single exceptionally aesthetic pitch deck slide at 2am for no reason whatsoever (logo and top text redacted)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1742651270240866510)  2024-01-03T20:56Z [----] followers, 12K engagements


"asteroid mining is a meme industry but to be honest if I was a LP I would rather a fund manager tell me that he lost my money on a crackpot plan to exploit the heavens than a web3 social app for dog owners"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1743015961546928418)  2024-01-04T21:06Z [----] followers, 45.6K engagements


"@spacecasetayl0r VCs dont want you to know this but the TAM for asteroid mining is approximately ten trillion quadrillion quintillion sextillion septillion centillion dollars"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1743017594456625430)  2024-01-04T21:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@solid_take brown ones are the eyes the grey dots are eyebrows"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1743720003084362093)  2024-01-06T19:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"my livestream of the washington vs michigan game got banned for explicit content because it showed an entire football team getting fucked 😔"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1744578300972880265)  2024-01-09T04:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"imo math can be learned very easily the main obstacles to doing so are 1) mental blocks (believing that one hates a subject will result in giving it up without a fair shot) and 2) the lack of good instruction My favorite part of this figure is it shows that math ability is much more trainable than verbal. STEMcels overestimate math's difficulty: conditional on high IQ with no training it takes like six month to a year to walk into a STEM career and perform at the level of its PhDs My favorite part of this figure is it shows that math ability is much more trainable than verbal. STEMcels"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1744878952441663679)  2024-01-10T00:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"honestly if our tax money got wasted on building flying megacarriers that do absolutely nothing except intimidatingly loom over enemy coastlines instead of hiring more useless federal bureaucrats I wouldnt even be mad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1746589222721532046)  2024-01-14T17:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@wildonpoaster isn't that just called a soulmate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1746761260526629084)  2024-01-15T05:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"raw materials: $24k staff salaries: $210k marketing: $30k office and utilities: $23k secret nuclear weapons program: $40M someone please help me budget this monthly burn rate my startup is dying"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1747711145191064017)  2024-01-17T20:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@ADoricko @vc inshallah this will float over the gundo someday like an alien mothership"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1748093618357944632)  2024-01-18T21:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"how the fuck did yall go from conquering this to crying about jet engine too loud and fighting over tv licenses in less than [---] years Millions of people are impacted by night flights. It affects their health work and personal lives. I'm calling for an end to night flying at Heathrow and for an investigation into the damage these flights are doing to our communities across the UK. https://t.co/x8ZbuTTsgZ Millions of people are impacted by night flights. It affects their health work and personal lives. I'm calling for an end to night flying at Heathrow and for an investigation into the damage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1748807024773841354)  2024-01-20T20:37Z [----] followers, 651.7K engagements


"@generallywrong carcinisation except instead of everything evolving into crabs its every company becoming a fintech"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1752771851041046628)  2024-01-31T19:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"spacex doesnt want you to know this but a starship actually made it into orbit as part of a top secret us space force mission on september 28th 2023"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1752960182416760983)  2024-02-01T07:40Z [----] followers, 17.9K engagements


"@void_recess in my experience they always let me order quantities of [--] or [--] and its almost always in stock with zero lead time its the extra layer of inconvenience thats infuriating. literally bad UX"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1753136163513413751)  2024-02-01T19:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"a hidden gem of history is that more jurors voted for socrates to be executed than those who voted for his guilty verdict this means a bunch of people went this dude is innocent but his smartass needs to die Sometimes I worry if we were magically transported to ancient Greece able to talk and debate with Thrasymachus and Socrates they'd turn out to be as annoying as the Less Wrong forums Sometimes I worry if we were magically transported to ancient Greece able to talk and debate with Thrasymachus and Socrates they'd turn out to be as annoying as the Less Wrong forums"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1753498403559051459)  2024-02-02T19:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"masculine urge to hold 33% of your net worth in gold bars buried at unmarked locations in the wilderness of northern michigan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1754595898557116480)  2024-02-05T20:00Z [----] followers, 10.1K engagements


"yet you post on twitter not wechat or weibo how fascinating For the first time in [---] years American cultural power is almost nonexistent outside US borders For the first time in [---] years American cultural power is almost nonexistent outside US borders"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1754940946503107026)  2024-02-06T18:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Youre hiding some ancient legacy bank under your shiny new fintech are you not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1755425634397069603)  2024-02-08T02:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@deltaIV9250 I remember Reddit was pretty techno-optimistic and supportive of manned spaceflight just five years ago - what the fuck happened"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1755459441921765626)  2024-02-08T05:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"in [----] a japanese admiral named kaneda proposed a [------] ton battleship using the logic if a navy with many ships is too expensive why not just have one big ship plan was scrapped after discovering the fuel needs alone wouldve bankrupted the state Tokyo actually had plans to make a skyscraper like this at one point called X-Seed [----]. It was meant to house 1M people be [-----] ft tall (taller than Mt. Fuji) and basically be a city inside a city. 3M Tons of Steel required* https://t.co/Votna6eEvP Tokyo actually had plans to make a skyscraper like this at one point called X-Seed [----]. It was"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1756487920352153793)  2024-02-11T01:18Z [----] followers, 1.1M engagements


"@E_Bruxxx will probably meet you at the a16z party but otherwise hmu (also hit up my boy @zekedup)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1757536210975957064)  2024-02-13T22:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"incredible things are happening in some southeastern michigan clean room"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1760757700865216628)  2024-02-22T20:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@bubblebabyboi only 5% of mcdonalds stores are run by corporate iirc more likely that your closest mcdonalds is run by a local businessman who could be your neighbor than some faceless corporation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1763661828293558405)  2024-03-01T20:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Why Because man was born to cross frontiers and push what conventional thinking names possible They said flight was impossible. We did it. They said rocketry was impossible. We did it. And now some claim that we'll never be spacefaring or leave our cradle so we will do it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1770193858120577386)  2024-03-19T21:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"If youre a top 0.1% engineer or a contrarian investor who sees how autonomy fits in our spacefaring future or feels the call of the frontier DM me or drop a line to hello@aethero.com Also check out our launch articles from @TechCrunch and @payloadspace"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1770193863321563572)  2024-03-19T21:01Z [----] followers, 15.5K engagements


"imagining an alien race on their way to utterly wipe out our descendants in a few centuries does wonders to ones will to accelerate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1772070423963763134)  2024-03-25T01:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@10x_er @tenobrus welcome aboard we will expose all extraterrestrial civilizations to glory of nvidia inshallah"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1773790823584571822)  2024-03-29T19:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@zanemountcastle perfect complement to the knights hospitaller air force"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1773897925615390772)  2024-03-30T02:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Excited to announce that Aethero is partnering with @JPMorgan to build the future of accounting software for enterprise mattress companies This is something Ive been passionate about for years and theres nothing else Id rather do Learn more here: https://tinyurl.com/z7aoc8a https://tinyurl.com/z7aoc8a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1774856476680671589)  2024-04-01T17:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@JHL_Express @jpmorgan please give me $300M series C for b2b SaaS I promise I wont launder it into a secret lunar outpost program via cayman shell companies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1774870289001894338)  2024-04-01T18:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"crazy that the EU wants to regulate space despite the fact theyve now gone [---] days without the ability put anything in orbit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1775260244786250062)  2024-04-02T20:33Z [----] followers, 179K engagements


"does anyone know why its socially acceptable to be openly proud about being bad at math or even outright hating it if youre bad at other subjects like history or english then we simply expect you to get good. why does math get singled out this harshly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1776383353840922744)  2024-04-05T22:56Z [----] followers, 329.5K engagements


"@iroasmas yes but you dont see people trying to ban kids from taking AP world history and even if people say they didnt enjoy Shakespeare they wont go around bragging about hating English if you look at any statistic for most disliked subject math always tops the rankings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1776386578312782112)  2024-04-05T23:08Z [----] followers, 18.2K engagements


"Whelp it was fun for our shit to not be ITAR restricted while it lasted Chinese researchers are now using TX2i GPUs to guide experimental hypersonic missiles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1780721553791222162)  2024-04-17T22:14Z [----] followers, 22.5K engagements


"some guys and I pitched in to snag it if youre building anti-drone countermeasures and want someone to team red your stuff later this summer lmk and well prob do it for fun incredible grindset tbh https://t.co/zogevMLbv5 incredible grindset tbh https://t.co/zogevMLbv5"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1781469575835714029)  2024-04-19T23:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"black & gold is best color scheme dont @ me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1787925446312783949)  2024-05-07T19:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"i don't care what openai does if my son shows up with an ai girlfriend he's getting disowned on the spot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1790167942677828057)  2024-05-13T23:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"remember that time the royal navy let the public design a new ironclad battleship only for it to immediately capsize on its first deployment and kill [---] crewmen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1794117413791023104)  2024-05-24T21:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@hyprturing imagine if the ruling elite from the 1700s were still alive and in power today with massively accumulated wealth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1795512009242612169)  2024-05-28T17:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"early radio broadcasts were on long medium and shortwave which gets mostly blocked by our ionosphere vhf and uhf can make it past and started being used in the 1930s (and its still used for earth-space comms today) the first broadcast to be legible in space is jazz The world's first radio broadcast is still flying through space at the speed of light. And even now after [---] years it hasn't made it beyond the tiny blue circle. https://t.co/2VIbK4F0kb The world's first radio broadcast is still flying through space at the speed of light. And even now after [---] years it hasn't made it beyond the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1798908596757070200)  2024-06-07T02:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@codyaims the profession of critic should exist only as a sinecure for retired men at the top of their field those who only criticize and never create are wastes of oxygen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1799609766156849557)  2024-06-09T01:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"the title of this book alone makes it deserve a spot as required reading for space founders 10/10 would read again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1800329088865112394)  2024-06-11T00:47Z [----] followers, 34.2K engagements


"@atcmn250 (in minecraft)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1800620097209315659)  2024-06-11T20:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"This creates a wobble effect As Proxima Centauri moves closer to Earth its light moves to the red end of the spectrum As it moves away we see light at shorter wavelengths at the blue end of the spectrum For reference heres the spectral chart that found Proxima Centauri B"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1800652109592891423)  2024-06-11T22:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"If habitable Proxima Centauri B is no paradise Its sun is a flare star that emits 10-60 times more UV radiation than our own The close orbit also subjects it to stellar winds and coronal ejections that could have stripped away most of its atmosphere eons ago"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1800652118006583653)  2024-06-11T22:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"But we have reasons to hope Volcanic activity could replenish its atmosphere over time Although not suitable for normal photosynthesis its sun is perfect for aoxygenic photosynthesis (a process seen in bacteria) And comets from Proxima Centauris dust belt could deliver ice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1800652136583245979)  2024-06-11T22:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"But none of these hypotheses can compare to observing the world up close To do this projects like Breakthrough Starshot are exploring ways to reach Proxima Centauri B in as little as [--] years at 0.2c Its not our first foray at designing a starship and it wont be the last"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1800652145991045544)  2024-06-11T22:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"its likely that most life-bearing worlds will more closely resemble the frozen ocean moons of europa and enceladus than our own earth theres simply far more of them in the universe (including four in our solar system alone) with all the ingredients for organics to exist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1800715975089910179)  2024-06-12T02:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Happy birthday to the future overlord of the Moon and Mars"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1808888496435965970)  2024-07-04T15:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"The British Empire colonized the Earth Its heir will colonize the galaxy Happy birthday to our future galactic overlords"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1808913978774671772)  2024-07-04T17:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Our 51st and 52nd state respectively"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1808989022548865265)  2024-07-04T22:19Z [----] followers, 52.2K engagements


"@mrexits the eastern roman air force wouldve had killer aesthetics and we all know it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1809715571325563078)  2024-07-06T22:26Z [----] followers, 34.8K engagements


"the best thing about running a hard tech company is how you can just casually drop lines like this Investor updates from hard tech companies just hit different. https://t.co/u6K7AmSxta Investor updates from hard tech companies just hit different. https://t.co/u6K7AmSxta"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1810399122157088829)  2024-07-08T19:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"fun fact: humanity launched more satellites in the past two years than we did in all of [----] to [----] accelerate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1810879373941354612)  2024-07-10T03:31Z [----] followers, 656.8K engagements


"@softminus america is an ascendant power. our best days still lie ahead of us"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1810880127812936055)  2024-07-10T03:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"spacex returning to flight as soon as next week in case you dont know were so fucking back"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1813765781118988366)  2024-07-18T02:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"half the size of a mac mini and four times more compute plus it works in space how neat is that cc: @AetheroSpace"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1814483161201717758)  2024-07-20T02:11Z [----] followers, 122K engagements


"@yacineMTB @AetheroSpace cant do the former since [--] years ago i was still in high school so doing the latter with tid & see testing using a proton beam and irradiator also have a demonstrator satellite (also not a [--] year mission but seeing how it works in orbit is useful)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1814722329907503585)  2024-07-20T18:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@VictorTaelin @AetheroSpace as are we got heavy ion and proton tests plus a demonstrator satellite in the coming months"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1814743586552094846)  2024-07-20T19:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@vasilypiccone @tom777cruise @AetheroSpace milady"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1814773637536493581)  2024-07-20T21:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The underrated part of doing cool shit is that your customers also tend to be doing cool shit and youll get to work on stuff for lunar landers and orbital fuel depots and space datacenters"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1818724657207689373)  2024-07-31T19:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"worth noting that spacex is somehow the cheapest option by at least 30% despite increasing launch prices each year (usually by 4-5% which tracks with inflation but still an increase) thats how much of a lead they have reality check: launch costs are not the same as launch prices. spacex launch costs are declining but customer prices are increasing. theres no real competition; its all margin for spacex. starship might be able to launch at $10/kg but theres little reason to undercut reality check: launch costs are not the same as launch prices. spacex launch costs are declining but customer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1819153568034848799)  2024-08-01T23:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"most SF parties are like the mid house parties you go to during freshman year of college before you realize this is shit time to rush a fraternity except theres no beer (only sparkling water) no food (only charcuterie board) and a 9:1 ratio"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1819809186072743969)  2024-08-03T18:54Z [----] followers, 24.6K engagements


"one of the wright brothers lived long enough to see the first pictures taken from space https://t.co/RB87anrGDw https://t.co/RB87anrGDw"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1821919412741407047)  2024-08-09T14:40Z [----] followers, 32.5K engagements


"status and credential-driven systems are basically a flashing neon sign for grifters to come in and carve out their own little empires"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1822328237806006674)  2024-08-10T17:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"last nights starlink launch out of vandy was a success were up next"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1823104063732425144)  2024-08-12T21:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"our first satellite is now in orbit we built tested and took it to orbit with just [--] months and a pre-seed round our goal is simple: to process space data and get where it needs to be - and were cooking more stuff in the shadows to make it happen stay tuned @AetheroSpace Our first satellite Deimos has been successfully launched into orbit Initial telemetry was secured several hours after launch to confirm that it is alive and healthy. With Deimos well be validating a computer 20x more powerful than previous GPUs sent to space - stay tuned 🚀 https://t.co/e9YXT6eKPd Our first satellite Deimos"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1824852373627338828)  2024-08-17T16:54Z [----] followers, 31.3K engagements


"you know your engineers are cracked when you ask other space companies to guess your team size and they overestimate it to be 3x larger"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1825240029100195925)  2024-08-18T18:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"wrong. we never stopped Humans went unbelievably hard for a while there. https://t.co/pbWiWo8LW4 Humans went unbelievably hard for a while there. https://t.co/pbWiWo8LW4"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1825620379294986737)  2024-08-19T19:46Z [----] followers, 148.8K engagements


"theres a subset of space startups outside of tech hubs run by white hairs in perpetual R&D hell with PS2 renderings showing 2000s-era SSTOs and other doohickey spacecraft and I still cant understand how exactly they sustain themselves"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1828261999241027935)  2024-08-27T02:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"never should you ever take out a loan that requires a personal guarantee (like an SBA loan) to fund a pre-revenue startup anyone who advises otherwise is doing you a favor by signaling that theyre a fucking idiot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1828319702575194299)  2024-08-27T06:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"have seen too many people get rekt on this. dont do it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1828319704517399037)  2024-08-27T06:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"SpaceX's Falcon [--] is grounded after failing a landing attempt last night during a Starlink mission FAA says. SpaceX's Falcon [--] is grounded after failing a landing attempt last night during a Starlink mission FAA says"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1828852272832692420)  2024-08-28T17:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"30u30 exists for [--] reasons: 1) help immigrants get green cards 2) help grifters to raise money 3) get asian parents to stop nagging their dropout founder children about graduating college"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1829607680111239309)  2024-08-30T19:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@basti_vkl orbital data centers for processing data generated in space and space-borne platforms make sense. orbital data centers for handling data generated terrestrially do not. solar energy is not cheaper in space"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1831107774690021751)  2024-09-03T23:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"everyone keeps assuming energy from space is cheaper than energy from earth this is wrong space-based solar power is NOT cheaper - it costs orders of magnitude more to manufacture a PV cell for space vs. it's terrestrial cousin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1831384521306222857)  2024-09-04T17:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@flying4thewind @JHL_Express that's starlink network-only it's not interoperable with other satellite constellations and very few satellites have the pointing accuracy for fso (0.0005 degrees) not to mention that kuiper starlink oneweb and ussf sats all aren't interoperable with each other"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1831402169310020048)  2024-09-04T18:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@EvanMadders @DavidZagaynov @flying4thewind we're doing both but we aren't focused on terrestrial use cases as I don't think it'll be profitable to send data up from earth to compute in space in this decade. less crypto mining or training GPT-6 in orbit more like an aws that's just for spacecraft"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1831484452297740536)  2024-09-05T00:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@CRBinz starlink terminals are not interoperable with sda ones in fact none of the broadband internet constellations are interoperable with either sda or each other"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1831491658598510703)  2024-09-05T00:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@CRBinz in the future there will be massive translator satellites consisting of nothing but adcs and different laser terminals who exist only because kuiper and starlink and oneweb and hedron and kepler and sda and (insert telecom name here) couldnt play nice and settle on one standard"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1831492628376121604)  2024-09-05T00:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@mpatrickwalton i do not envy the poor man who has to complete the odar for a [--] x [--] km megastructure in leo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1831582356853174393)  2024-09-05T06:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"im playing a game where i make strangers at SF events guess whether im a founder or a VC and apparently making eye contact and having a firm handshake lands me in the VC category"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1831815161801498995)  2024-09-05T22:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@alexthegrreat our series b will be exactly $69M mark my words"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1832635855464284416)  2024-09-08T04:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@amanda_robs @ascent_hi thats 40%+ dilution before series A in lots of cases - kinda insane"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1833618716514521148)  2024-09-10T21:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"SEE proton testing is now complete; our radiation error mitigation software works super well with correcting single event and multi-bit upsets couldnt be prouder of the @AetheroSpace team for designing flying and testing the most radiation-hardened AI computer on the planet Its radiation testing szn @TRIUMFLab https://t.co/Ngt51ghRuV Its radiation testing szn @TRIUMFLab https://t.co/Ngt51ghRuV"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1835045610220929081)  2024-09-14T19:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"most of our angels are doubling down and 2-3xing their investment in us lets fucking go"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1836108477963665867)  2024-09-17T18:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"its utterly wild that a fully-fueled starship has enough dV to deliver a hundred tons of payload to saturn from low earth orbit the stars sit in front of us we must seize them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1837601686678130995)  2024-09-21T21:15Z [----] followers, 24.5K engagements


"i am now legally allowed to call @AetheroSpace a flight heritage company Our first satellite is now (officially) registered on Space-Track Welcome to Low Earth Orbit Deimos 🛰 https://t.co/zsn196nlnX Our first satellite is now (officially) registered on Space-Track Welcome to Low Earth Orbit Deimos 🛰 https://t.co/zsn196nlnX"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1837633860248502348)  2024-09-21T23:23Z [----] followers, 10.3K engagements


"@DeveloperHarris imo the hurdle for doing this is less capital or will or tech and way more on the regulatory side"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1837700872266281034)  2024-09-22T03:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"fairly convinced at this point that SpaceX is the only thing that stands between us and ceding the entire solar system to China SpaceX plans to launch about five uncrewed Starships to Mars in two years. If those all land safely then crewed missions are possible in four years. If we encounter challenges then the crewed missions will be postponed another two years. It is only possible to travel from SpaceX plans to launch about five uncrewed Starships to Mars in two years. If those all land safely then crewed missions are possible in four years. If we encounter challenges then the crewed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1838029626821714189)  2024-09-23T01:36Z [----] followers, 51K engagements


"i would bet my life savings that a manned mars mission architecture that requires [--] separate SLS launches over a decade (potentially over [--] seperate administrations with entirely different space policies) is not going to happen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1838030708457287738)  2024-09-23T01:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"deep tech founders are just a hybrid of chronic gambling addict and scientist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1842780997886115968)  2024-10-06T04:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"founding engineers asking to forgo cash comp and double down on equity means youre either building a generational company or running a cult"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1844433608414724133)  2024-10-10T17:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"a continuous human presence in earth orbit can only have one meaning and thats having a continuous human presence in earth orbit NASA caring more about redefining that phrase to something lesser than actually accomplishing it is just late stage institutional rot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1846954960820621601)  2024-10-17T16:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"bumping into a ton of talented young people who want to work in space and defense-tech but arent us citizens or green card holders yet any ideas on who/where to point them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1848506123151720785)  2024-10-21T23:26Z [----] followers, 31.4K engagements


"@CollinMickels yea outside of that the best advice i can come up with is either to go build in their native space/defense ecosystem grind saas until they get a green card or enlist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1848513651822735540)  2024-10-21T23:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@pronounced_kyle integer overflow from too much bad news has reset the bullish factor on boeing back to 255"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1848830156376576469)  2024-10-22T20:53Z [----] followers, 22.9K engagements


"another twenty trillion to SpaceX @4sanjaymathew @SpaceAbhi There's more than chatter. Boeing LM and NG have all told NASA they're unlikely to bid on fixed-price contracts in the future. @4sanjaymathew @SpaceAbhi There's more than chatter. Boeing LM and NG have all told NASA they're unlikely to bid on fixed-price contracts in the future"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1849966670942699554)  2024-10-26T00:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"actual question from a vc: if satellites use solar panels and the sun is free then how come operating a satellite also isnt free"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1851393511167553878)  2024-10-29T22:39Z [----] followers, 101.1K engagements


"broke: moving to LA with nothing but a dream to become a hollywood actor bespoke: moving to LA with nothing but a dream and building cruise missiles this is the closest thing i have to a blog so i wrote something: https://t.co/uR7T0bftw1 this is the closest thing i have to a blog so i wrote something: https://t.co/uR7T0bftw1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1852054938626723889)  2024-10-31T18:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"after torturing [--] quadrillion souls in the torment nexus we put inside a wormhole to power the simulation of [--] sextillion universes across fifteen stellar supercomputers we have come to the conclusion that both candidates have an exactly 50% chance of winning the election"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1853987075525365849)  2024-11-06T02:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"crazy how you can just drink [--] cans of diet coke and celsius and grind until 2am in exchange for zero health issues no sir none whatsoever"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1854477395857904013)  2024-11-07T10:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I asked a NASA engineer if it was possible to build a rocket that could carry a capsule and lander to the Moon and deliver it on time and budget He said we cant anymore we dont know how"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1856417505524494621)  2024-11-12T19:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"turned [--] today and realized that the so-called quarter life crisis is just a codeword for skill issue"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1860129505140179167)  2024-11-23T01:13Z [----] followers, 10.5K engagements


"high interest rates is how God converts startups into cheap office furniture"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1860578291356434534)  2024-11-24T06:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"launch costs launch prices we got another one lads This will create more billionaires than the internet boom: 2010: $50000 to send 1kg to space 2024: $100 Soon: $10 But everyone's focused on the wrong thing. The real opportunity isn't in launches - it's in what comes after: https://t.co/8cFc4s0izA This will create more billionaires than the internet boom: 2010: $50000 to send 1kg to space 2024: $100 Soon: $10 But everyone's focused on the wrong thing. The real opportunity isn't in launches - it's in what comes after: https://t.co/8cFc4s0izA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1862741841667305789)  2024-11-30T06:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"any part for space is going to be expensive if youre buying it externally. theres not that many satellites and low volumes means the maker needs high margins there is also more two factors that push up the price. one is flight heritage which means this part has been operated in space before. the other is qualification qualification is simple. you need to test the part in a thermal vacuum (TVAC) chamber to make sure that it can keep functioning in space conditions. testing equipment is expensive and so is operating it. there is a cheaper alternative of protoqualification which basically says a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1863399697265955016)  2024-12-02T01:48Z [----] followers, 30.4K engagements


"both our proposals got selected and funded were so fucking back happy SBIR day to all those who celebrate happy SBIR day to all those who celebrate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1866912745645543860)  2024-12-11T18:27Z [----] followers, 16.1K engagements


"if youre in SF and are forklift certified or have a forklift hmu"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1868757739243291023)  2024-12-16T20:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"thinking about that googler who told to me that he forgot how to code after cruising for a decade+ literally cant get another job or do anything except free food and vest something deeply unnatural about it. he is the human equivalent of a wagyu cow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1869547474245013934)  2024-12-19T00:57Z [----] followers, 162.6K engagements


"theres a company in florida restoring a fleet of F-104 fighter jets back into working condition and using them to launch satellites into orbit you can just do shit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1870854445099348300)  2024-12-22T15:30Z [----] followers, 41.9K engagements


"2024 wrapped launched a satellite built a clean room [--] states in [--] month closed a seed (announcing soon) sold hardware to NASA won first two sbir contracts moved into first office in the heart of SF met cracked people off twitter hired them merry christmas 🎄 [----] wrapped - moved to sf for hf0 back to sd - built apps made money - started creating content - got a girlfriend - steak fruit lifting surfing x1000 - new friends https://t.co/rqkGVV6Z0x [----] wrapped - moved to sf for hf0 back to sd - built apps made money - started creating content - got a girlfriend - steak fruit lifting surfing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1871964192590446680)  2024-12-25T17:00Z [----] followers, 34.7K engagements


"the outer space treaty of [----] isnt worth the paper that its written on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1874712581614825540)  2025-01-02T07:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"you will go surfing upon the surface of the sun and watch our incomprehensibly advanced descendants rewrite the fabric of reality to their will. and you will like it. if you make it to [----] you might live to be 500+. this excites me but its also terrifying. what does life even look like at [---] [---] imagine being a great-great-great-great-great-grandparent hosting a 1000-person family dinner. if you make it to [----] you might live to be 500+. this excites me but its also terrifying. what does life even look like at [---] [---] imagine being a great-great-great-great-great-grandparent hosting a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1875804237428621620)  2025-01-05T07:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Would bet my life savings on China putting the next man on the Moon. [----] China was barely even an great power let alone a spacefaring one. NASA fumbling a 6-decade U.S. lead in human spaceflight is going to be studied for generations. Unmatched institutional rot. Artemis Prediction: Artemis 2: November [----] Artemis 3: December [----] Artemis 4: Late [----] Artemis 5: Late [----] I personally believe that SLS will not survive after A5 commercial rockets and maybe spacecraft will take over for later moon missions as NASA refocuses on mars. https://t.co/WqBvker6So Artemis Prediction: Artemis 2:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1875996572426834344)  2025-01-05T20:03Z [----] followers, 17.9K engagements


"the war in afghanistan cost over $2T which is fucking insane given the inflation adjusted cost estimate of building a stanford torus (a giant orbital ring colony) is only $900B we couldve had [-----] americans living and working off-world for what we spent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1876292354371653842)  2025-01-06T15:38Z [----] followers, 19.1K engagements


"Greenland Pfft. Im manifesting the true American destiny"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1876726707408842948)  2025-01-07T20:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Good luck with coordinating forward deployed units and collecting intel after the Chinese kill multiple satellite constellations. Space will be a battleground in the next great power conflict. Either prepare and win or dont and lose. Control the stars control the Earth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1878501569651454053)  2025-01-12T17:57Z [----] followers, 16.4K engagements


"https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3294047/chinese-scientists-simulate-hunting-starlink-satellites-orbit https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3294047/chinese-scientists-simulate-hunting-starlink-satellites-orbit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1878502872758845513)  2025-01-12T18:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Robotbeat @Nexuist [-----] is a lot. Still not invincible; our only strategy here shouldnt be going all-in on betting that we launch faster than China can shoot them down"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1878535088062808377)  2025-01-12T20:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Chinese satellites stalking GEO Russia developing nuclear anti-satellite weapons Space Force going cislunar The age of space war is here we just havent realized it yet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1879231719565627783)  2025-01-14T18:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"no ad astra without per aspera"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1880087370462294260)  2025-01-17T02:58Z [----] followers, 21.3K engagements


"the three jewels of the american empire manifest destiny doesnt sleep and neither should you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1881457219121889735)  2025-01-20T21:42Z [----] followers, 57.7K engagements


"Just remember that God didnt color the solar system red (Mars) white (Moon) and blue (Earth) without reason the three jewels of the american empire manifest destiny doesnt sleep and neither should you https://t.co/RRrcTSVjAr the three jewels of the american empire manifest destiny doesnt sleep and neither should you https://t.co/RRrcTSVjAr"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1881478329674645578)  2025-01-20T23:06Z [----] followers, 27.7K engagements


"email european vendor out of office until [----] email american vendor ghosted for [--] months. finally quoted $35k and a year of lead time email chinese vendor charged $800. the lead time is [---] days and its already delivered. they offer their daughters hand in marriage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1885400738651922510)  2025-01-31T18:52Z [----] followers, 140.5K engagements


"@matsigh axiom wouldve been a decent space tourism service had they not tried to build a large private space station increased the headcount to [---] for no reason not run itself like a big government program and actually paid its vendors"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1888055387577786406)  2025-02-08T02:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Did you know that one day there will be a city on the Falkland Islands https://t.co/fFYFS66PDo https://t.co/fFYFS66PDo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1890183574747509195)  2025-02-13T23:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"a VC once told me that he was starting a think tank to re-industrialize america and when I asked him if he had manufacturing companies in the portfolio he said no I only invest in B2B SaaS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1898428279809540214)  2025-03-08T17:39Z [----] followers, 60.6K engagements


"Voyager [--] was launched in [----]. Had it been oriented in the correct direction and traveling at a mere 0.09c (achievable with todays technology) it wouldve already reached Alpha Centauri Interstellar travel is closer than you think"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1902204032795767275)  2025-03-19T03:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@INVESTMENTSHULK The Ottan-Ottman-Oittamia Rebellion really did a number on the Ottoman Empire"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1906122117495836819)  2025-03-29T23:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Its fucked that a coin flip when youre [--] or [--] years old can either open up thousands of doors or vastly increase the amount of suffering youll have to endure to achieve high agency & high status paths If youre cracked youll succeed (or just too dumb to quit given that Ive made it this far myself). But youll have to deal with 10x the bullshit just to get halfway as far as a peer from Stanford or MIT. Warm intros None. VC scouts Lol. There will be no handholding or tutorials for you. Disagree Well I dont see Sam Altman speaking at the University of Nebraska or YC setting up future founder"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1906494032987209968)  2025-03-30T23:49Z [----] followers, 164.5K engagements


"@0xinsanity defeatism would be admitting theres no path to victory when such a path exists in building cool shit and outworking the next guy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1906730588314505706)  2025-03-31T15:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"SF tech bros in shambles theyre coming for the wmafs JUST IN: US bans romantic and sexual relationships with Chinese citizens for all government employees in China. https://t.co/OIlyYCUQPV JUST IN: US bans romantic and sexual relationships with Chinese citizens for all government employees in China. https://t.co/OIlyYCUQPV"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1908297029266358495)  2025-04-04T23:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I have a borderline irrational dislike of Bambus and refuse to allow them into our office even if they are (regrettably) cheaper than Prusa or other western alternatives. Maybe Im paranoid but if you want to know why This is why. Security researchers have uncovered a pre-installed undocumented remote access tunnel in Unitree Go1 robot dogs. Each Unitree Go1 robot dog is shipped with a preconfigured tunnel client that initiates a connection to CloudSail a remote access platform developed by https://t.co/kl1fKdeDND Security researchers have uncovered a pre-installed undocumented remote access"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1909078292105167280)  2025-04-07T02:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@DeltaClimbs Herman Miller Aeron on FB marketplace can get a $1k chair for $300 apiece"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1911117046462730706)  2025-04-12T17:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"destroying linkedin would do wonders for sf culture ngl"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1917670754856099921)  2025-04-30T20:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@chris_walker_ linkedin has as much of a desirable culture as a overgrown petri dish of e. coli"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1917672692024828330)  2025-04-30T20:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@johncoogan @PirateWires should release a mandarin edition and send them off to the taikonauts to read on their space station"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1917802074378756410)  2025-05-01T04:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@GeorgeLutas1 I think everyone at NASA knew SLS was DOA given that the Obama admin was lukewarm towards the whole concept and saw it as consolation for cancelling Constellation. Dont get nicknames like Senate Launch System outta nowhere"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1918357300211040487)  2025-05-02T17:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"going down a rabbit-hole of making tiny chip satellites that weigh in on under [--] grams btw who has a kilometer-wide solar sail and a intercept trajectory to alpha centauri"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1922688911110783338)  2025-05-14T16:22Z [----] followers, 23.7K engagements


"this entire peninsula should be smothered in skyscrapers as thick as manhattan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1923989863373672733)  2025-05-18T06:31Z [----] followers, 171.1K engagements


"a surplus of high-agency low-status males is bad for hierarchical societies with limited upward mobility. in the past youd have to mobilize them to conquer foreign lands with the promises of gold/glory but nowadays theyre pacified by mundane shit like non-target IB internships"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1925418786221695027)  2025-05-22T05:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"the same man who wouldve led a peasant rebellion a millennia ago is now a goldman sachs vp who graduated from missouri state"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1925420515331813590)  2025-05-22T05:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Pilots are officers and its codified in law that you cant make it above O-2 without a college degree Prior to nam you could get into OCS with just a high SAT score Crazy that you can drop out and build a billion dollar company but cant be trusted as a company-grade officer Chuck Yeager the legend who broke the sound barrier would not have made it as a pilot in today's U.S. Air Force. Why No college degree. Something to think about. https://t.co/zZI2rnlbZG Chuck Yeager the legend who broke the sound barrier would not have made it as a pilot in today's U.S. Air Force. Why No college degree."  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1929088971738358033)  2025-06-01T08:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@TyphoonNotes Were thousands of Asian-Americans ever massacred by the United States government in an event unacknowledged to this day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1930336468872114593)  2025-06-04T18:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"has anyone used @BuildWithFlux wondering what's the closest equivalent of GitHub copilot for designing pcbs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1931851175399448621)  2025-06-08T23:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@scifirr @BuildWithFlux Nice I mostly use KiCad nowadays and havent touched Altium in awhile. Will have to try it again soon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1931870537606906300)  2025-06-09T00:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@KevinQLoi sending orins to space is easy. sending orins to space with hw/software radiation mitigations to make it work for [--] year long missions doing extensive testing at over facilities around the world in partnership with the U.S Air Force and building OTA software for it is hard"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1932607328559436139)  2025-06-11T01:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"are your cognitive shields up anon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1936307498593431924)  2025-06-21T06:17Z [----] followers, 50.3K engagements


"i dont think you understand you buy a cubesat kit you put a space station in orbit its that simple i dont think you understand you vibe code a saas you get to $50k/month your net margins are at least 50% because you dont need a big team anymore you are making $25k/month ($300k/year) you can sell the business for 10-15x EBITDA all day long your business is worth $3M-$5M i dont think you understand you vibe code a saas you get to $50k/month your net margins are at least 50% because you dont need a big team anymore you are making $25k/month ($300k/year) you can sell the business for 10-15x"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1939436500317343836)  2025-06-29T21:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@AI_in_LEO its less plug & play than one thinks no such thing as a plug & play satellite bus unfortunately"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1939440281260278157)  2025-06-29T21:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Cutting two Mars orbiters a interstellar probe a Jupiter probe and abandoning Venus is mental There are two races occurring this century to decide who writes the future of man: 1) The race to AGI 2) The race for the solar system China knows its winner takes all. Do we Heres the tally for currently-active missions that will be shut down: Mars Odyssey MAVEN New Horizons Osiris-APEX (plans to flyby another asteroid) DSCOVR Unflown but planned missions that will die include: VERITAS (Venus orbiter) DAVINCI+ (Venus atmospheric probe) Heres the tally for currently-active missions that will be shut"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1940914780732334438)  2025-07-03T23:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"GDP is funny because manufacturing something real and selling it for $10k generates way less increase than four AI wrapper startups swapping the same $10k as revenue between each other despite the former producing infinitely more value"  
[X Link](https://x.com/somefoundersalt/status/1941921891263873191)  2025-07-06T18:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

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