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Post-Scarcity Joy
3d metal copper printed Ai optimized aerospike rocket engines!

Single stage to orbit!

All the aerospaces.

leap71.com/2024/12/23/l...

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerospi...
December 29, 2024 at 2:09 AM
Timeline Maps!

Watch empires rise and fall with slick timeline UX

www.oldmapsonline.org/en#position=...
December 12, 2024 at 12:06 PM
December 10, 2024 at 11:30 PM
December 1, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Live aircraft maps!

www.flightradar24.com
November 25, 2024 at 3:05 AM
Live ship maps!

marinetraffic.com
November 25, 2024 at 3:03 AM
Live space maps!

stuffin.space
November 25, 2024 at 3:01 AM
Orbitals
Different orbits let you do different things. Each has a minimum *speed*. Get something going fast enough it’ll keep going for a long time.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Ear...

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
November 25, 2024 at 2:59 AM
You can get most places in solar system just with a good *push*

Much of the work is just to escape Earth’s gravity well. Now we almost have starship with 100 tons offworld. Heres a map of all the places we can go.
November 25, 2024 at 2:44 AM

Shaders.

Art from pure math powered by GPU

AI is actually really good writing these.
Its a fun skill to learn!

www.shadertoy.com/results?quer...

iquilezles.org/articles/

thebookofshaders.com

pixelspiritdeck.com

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shader
November 24, 2024 at 8:30 PM
If you ever need to move something *very big* on the water very precisely, these guys got you covered. Couple with the barges and this was much of original SpaceX drone barge buildout.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonom...

www.mcdonoughmarine.com

www.thrustmaster.net
November 24, 2024 at 7:57 PM
Gorgeous. Reminds me of this one for gold claims. California used to be river superhighway until mining silt hydro mining clogged it all up. Kind of cool to compare to the drainage basins maps.
November 24, 2024 at 7:16 PM
One of my favorite data viz plots ever. Civilization key stats at a glance.

From the very fun titled

“Over the hills and further away from coast: global geospatial patterns of human and environment over the 20th–21st centuries”

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
November 24, 2024 at 6:32 PM
www.grasshoppergeography.com/collections/...

Drainage Basins are pretty.

Hydrology an artform
November 24, 2024 at 4:50 PM
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project...

The wiki on the project is a deep rabbit hole full of futures never followed up on.
November 24, 2024 at 4:42 PM
BWE bucket wheel excavator
100m tons/yr of earth moving
3mw
$30m

Every town should have one.

ucpcdn.thyssenkrupp.com/_legacy/UCPt...
November 24, 2024 at 4:18 PM
November 22, 2024 at 10:21 PM