Keegan Kirkpatrick
@keegankirkpatrick.bsky.social
Startup guy, dog dad, desert dweller.
Opinions expressed are my own.
Opinions expressed are my own.
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BREAKING NEWS!
Jared Isaacman's nomination for NASA Administrator has been approved by the US Senate.
📷 Max Evans for NASASpaceflight
Jared Isaacman's nomination for NASA Administrator has been approved by the US Senate.
📷 Max Evans for NASASpaceflight
December 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
BREAKING NEWS!
Jared Isaacman's nomination for NASA Administrator has been approved by the US Senate.
📷 Max Evans for NASASpaceflight
Jared Isaacman's nomination for NASA Administrator has been approved by the US Senate.
📷 Max Evans for NASASpaceflight
Russia was already facing serious challenges for its future as a space power, this might be the final nail in the coffin.
Russia may have just lost its only active launch pad for manned space missions. After today’s launch of Soyuz MS-28 from Baikonur, which sent three crew members to the ISS, the service platform at Launch Pad 31 appears to have been severely damaged by rocket exhaust.
December 2, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Russia was already facing serious challenges for its future as a space power, this might be the final nail in the coffin.
Huh. Now that's just odd.
SpaceX rolled out the next generation of Starship to Masseys for testing, but during a routine ambient-pressure test, the Liquid Oxygen Tank ruptured.
nasaspaceflight.com/2025/11/boos...
By Ryan Weber
nasaspaceflight.com/2025/11/boos...
By Ryan Weber
November 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Huh. Now that's just odd.
Celebrating 7 years together. I don't know how I got so lucky to find someone so wonderful.
November 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Celebrating 7 years together. I don't know how I got so lucky to find someone so wonderful.
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Join us 🔴LIVE🔴 Momentarily from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida , as Blue Origin launches its New Glenn heavy-lift rocket for its second mission.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0dQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0dQ...
Blue Origin Launches New Glenn Flight 2 - NASA ESCAPADE Mission to Mars
YouTube video by NASASpaceflight
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Join us 🔴LIVE🔴 Momentarily from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida , as Blue Origin launches its New Glenn heavy-lift rocket for its second mission.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0dQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0dQ...
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This was the last flight of SpaceX’s V2 Starship design. Version 3 arrives next year. www.wired.com/story/spacex...
SpaceX’s Second-Gen Starship Signs Off With a Near-Perfect Test Flight
This was the last flight of SpaceX’s V2 Starship design. Version 3 arrives next year.
www.wired.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:05 AM
This was the last flight of SpaceX’s V2 Starship design. Version 3 arrives next year. www.wired.com/story/spacex...
Repeatability for a reusable spacecraft. Exciting times.
This was the last flight of SpaceX’s V2 Starship design. Version 3 arrives next year. www.wired.com/story/spacex...
SpaceX’s Second-Gen Starship Signs Off With a Near-Perfect Test Flight
This was the last flight of SpaceX’s V2 Starship design. Version 3 arrives next year.
www.wired.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Repeatability for a reusable spacecraft. Exciting times.
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We are excited to announce a panel of special guests who will be joining us on our launch livestream for Flight 11!
www.youtube.com/live/7bcpnn_...
Join us starting at 3:15pm CDT / 20:15 UTC!
www.youtube.com/live/7bcpnn_...
Join us starting at 3:15pm CDT / 20:15 UTC!
October 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
We are excited to announce a panel of special guests who will be joining us on our launch livestream for Flight 11!
www.youtube.com/live/7bcpnn_...
Join us starting at 3:15pm CDT / 20:15 UTC!
www.youtube.com/live/7bcpnn_...
Join us starting at 3:15pm CDT / 20:15 UTC!
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A private home project in Singapore saw a near sellout in its first weekend of sales, underscoring the city-state’s persistently hot residential market despite multiple rounds of government cooling measures
Singapore Property Boom Heats Up Again With Near Sellout Project
A private home project in Singapore saw a near sellout in its first weekend of sales, underscoring the city-state’s persistently hot residential market despite multiple rounds of government cooling measures.
bloom.bg
October 13, 2025 at 12:30 AM
A private home project in Singapore saw a near sellout in its first weekend of sales, underscoring the city-state’s persistently hot residential market despite multiple rounds of government cooling measures
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New @nejm.org
One-shot gene therapy for a type of congenital deafness enabled some children to hear for the first time, and 3 of 12 kids achieved normal hearing
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2400521
One-shot gene therapy for a type of congenital deafness enabled some children to hear for the first time, and 3 of 12 kids achieved normal hearing
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2400521
DB-OTO Gene Therapy for Inherited Deafness | NEJM
Genetic deficiency of otoferlin, a protein critical to synaptic transmission by the sensory hair cells of the ear, causes congenital deafness. Medicines to treat the condition are lacking; children...
www.nejm.org
October 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
New @nejm.org
One-shot gene therapy for a type of congenital deafness enabled some children to hear for the first time, and 3 of 12 kids achieved normal hearing
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2400521
One-shot gene therapy for a type of congenital deafness enabled some children to hear for the first time, and 3 of 12 kids achieved normal hearing
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2400521
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1960 - The first laser is a 2cm long ruby rod that operates in millisecond pulses and doesn't break a watt of average power.
1962 - Robert L. Forward: "And here's how we'll use gigawatt laser beams to drive 10 km wide lightsails out of the Solar System"
The art he attached:
1962 - Robert L. Forward: "And here's how we'll use gigawatt laser beams to drive 10 km wide lightsails out of the Solar System"
The art he attached:
October 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
1960 - The first laser is a 2cm long ruby rod that operates in millisecond pulses and doesn't break a watt of average power.
1962 - Robert L. Forward: "And here's how we'll use gigawatt laser beams to drive 10 km wide lightsails out of the Solar System"
The art he attached:
1962 - Robert L. Forward: "And here's how we'll use gigawatt laser beams to drive 10 km wide lightsails out of the Solar System"
The art he attached:
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Type One CEO says Tennessee Valley Authority to harness its fusion technology reut.rs/46oAziU
Type One CEO says Tennessee Valley Authority to harness its fusion technology
Type One Energy CEO Christofer Mowry said on Friday U.S. government-owned utility Tennessee Valley Authority plans to use its technology at the retired coal-fired Bull Run plant, which will be the site of a commercial fusion plant.
reut.rs
September 20, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Type One CEO says Tennessee Valley Authority to harness its fusion technology reut.rs/46oAziU
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+1°C costs the world 12% of its GDP:
www.nber.org/papers/w32450
This calculation of the wide-ranging effects of climate change finds an impact 6x higher than previous estimates, most sensitive to temperature shocks.
www.nber.org/papers/w32450
This calculation of the wide-ranging effects of climate change finds an impact 6x higher than previous estimates, most sensitive to temperature shocks.
September 4, 2025 at 3:01 AM
+1°C costs the world 12% of its GDP:
www.nber.org/papers/w32450
This calculation of the wide-ranging effects of climate change finds an impact 6x higher than previous estimates, most sensitive to temperature shocks.
www.nber.org/papers/w32450
This calculation of the wide-ranging effects of climate change finds an impact 6x higher than previous estimates, most sensitive to temperature shocks.
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Mining on the Moon: a solar concentrator is used to heat up and process regolith delivered by remotely-controlled rovers.
August 24, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Mining on the Moon: a solar concentrator is used to heat up and process regolith delivered by remotely-controlled rovers.
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Measuring the progress of spaceflight and solar system development using a single metric: "mass value".
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
This measure would account for both how much mass is delivered to space, but also how far it's been pushed by deltaV.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
This measure would account for both how much mass is delivered to space, but also how far it's been pushed by deltaV.
August 24, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Measuring the progress of spaceflight and solar system development using a single metric: "mass value".
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
This measure would account for both how much mass is delivered to space, but also how far it's been pushed by deltaV.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
This measure would account for both how much mass is delivered to space, but also how far it's been pushed by deltaV.
It's never a good sign when a government tries to rewrite history.
Trump targets the Smithsonian again, says it focuses too much on how bad slavery was reut.rs/45N5Iw5
Trump targets the Smithsonian again, says it focuses too much on how bad slavery was
Trump suggested he will pressure the Smithsonian Institution to accept his demands.
reut.rs
August 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
It's never a good sign when a government tries to rewrite history.
This would bother me a lot less if NOAA wasn't also facing needless budget cuts.
NASA's acting Administrator Sean Duffy says the agency will step back from climate science to focus on space exploration — highlighting a growing shift in the agency's overall mission.
www.space.com/space-explor...
www.space.com/space-explor...
Acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy says the agency will 'move aside' from climate sciences to focus on exploring moon and Mars
The United States space agency has pioneered planetary science technologies as the world's leader in climate research for more than 40 years, but that may be about to change.
www.space.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This would bother me a lot less if NOAA wasn't also facing needless budget cuts.
LLMs have been facing negative feedback training loops for a while now, and too many companies elected to ignore those reports.
MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.
fortune.com
August 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
LLMs have been facing negative feedback training loops for a while now, and too many companies elected to ignore those reports.
We'll be hearing about the BLA a lot now that Iran's military has been so heavily degraded. Power vacuums in border regions are a recipe for misery.
US designates Pakistani Baloch separatists as a foreign terrorist group reut.rs/3HtsVev
US designates Pakistani Baloch separatists as a foreign terrorist group
The United States is designating the Pakistani separatist Baloch Liberation Army as a foreign terrorist organization, the U.S. Department of State said on Monday.
reut.rs
August 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
We'll be hearing about the BLA a lot now that Iran's military has been so heavily degraded. Power vacuums in border regions are a recipe for misery.
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A few weeks ago I got to visit an Ocado site where online orders are packed by robots, and they're getting better at it every day
Inside the automated warehouse where robots are packing your groceries
Your last online order might have been packed by a robot
www.theverge.com
August 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
A few weeks ago I got to visit an Ocado site where online orders are packed by robots, and they're getting better at it every day
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This is actually the big rethink-the-car push the legacy automakers needed to have to compete with Tesla, not just slapping iPads in the dashboard. Exciting stuff www.theverge.com/ford-motor-c...
Ford reveals breakthrough process for lower priced EVs
The assembly process will require more automation and fewer workers.
www.theverge.com
August 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This is actually the big rethink-the-car push the legacy automakers needed to have to compete with Tesla, not just slapping iPads in the dashboard. Exciting stuff www.theverge.com/ford-motor-c...
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📞 It’s Day 11 of #31DaysOfAction! The past week Trump has continued to fight his war on science. Tell your senators + rep: defend science + stop Trump’s attack on facts. Click-2-call here: zurl.co/bnC8s
August 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
📞 It’s Day 11 of #31DaysOfAction! The past week Trump has continued to fight his war on science. Tell your senators + rep: defend science + stop Trump’s attack on facts. Click-2-call here: zurl.co/bnC8s
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6 days to go: we're 40% funded! Please keep reposting and back the campaign if you can! 💚 We won't be able to keep doing this unless we get 100% funded.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sam...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sam...
Habitats Volume 2 (Optimistic Science Fiction & Fantasy)
The second issue of a brand-new optimistic science-fiction and fantasy magazine. Published by Habitats Press.
www.kickstarter.com
August 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
6 days to go: we're 40% funded! Please keep reposting and back the campaign if you can! 💚 We won't be able to keep doing this unless we get 100% funded.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sam...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sam...
mRNA vaccines might be the key to ending cancer, HIV, and countless other diseases. Cutting funding to research is needlessly destructive.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said today that the government is pulling $500 million in funding to develop new mRNA vaccines in order to focus on "safer, broader vaccine platforms."
Trump admin pulls funding for new mRNA vaccines
The Trump administration is pulling $500 million in funding for 22 mRNA development projects.
www.axios.com
August 6, 2025 at 2:51 AM
mRNA vaccines might be the key to ending cancer, HIV, and countless other diseases. Cutting funding to research is needlessly destructive.
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Pitch Black (2000) 🔥🔥🔥
August 6, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Pitch Black (2000) 🔥🔥🔥