It’s Autism Acceptance Day! So we’re starting with that before moving on to SpaceX’s amazing news this week and the impending threat of the robiticization of the workforce. Add to that the weekly linkspam and a trailer for Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, and you’ve got the news roundup for April 2, 2017!
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On Thursday (weather permitting), SpaceX is going to re-launch a rocket. That is amazing.
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At a Brown University Microsymposium this week, SpaceX announced that it’s been working with NASA to pick a landing site for its first “Red Dragon” mission, likely to launch in 2020.
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Because you can’t not post about people paying Elon Musk for a private flight around the Moon.
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I’m travelling today, because this Thursday is American Thanksgiving, the day of the year that we pretend the place was offered to white people and not stolen, and say “thanks, guys!” to the people we took it from. So instead of a full post, here’s a quick note about Elon Musk’s latest venture.
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Our “Top Three” this week are all combination stories: two about Tesla, an Apple and Microsoft release competition, and a smattering of stories about signals from space. It’s the first weekly roundup of our fourth year online(!): Sunday 30 October 2016, check it out!
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On Sunday, Elon Musk did an “Ask Me Anything” session over at reddit’s amazing r/spacex community. It was a really excellent experience and both he and the community members seemed to have a great time. Because the community is mostly composed of folks who (a) either know and love the nitty-gritty of the engineering details, or (b) know that they don’t know the nitty-gritty and are happy to step aside for those who do, the questions were much more productive than the majority of the ridiculous questions that he got after the IAC talk where everything was announced.
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