1. This hole will last longer than our enemy hole, /h/communism, who are posers, right-deviationists, reactionaries, and counter revolutionaries.

I got banned there for trying to offer mutual aide in the form of a medic tent, which caused me to instantly create this hole because I was mad

2. We will form a space program in the aims of achieving Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism

I don't know how this is supposed to work yet, and I'm not sure I believe in the existence of outer space ... but I do know that anything is possible if we all work together!

Our first moves on this front should be to research outer space as much as possible

3. Ministers and officers will be assigned and people's badges will be made.

They work like NFTs except for the part where there's a blockchain. They work like rdrama badges except for the part where they show up on the badge section of your profile. (unless I figure out how to do something really creative with css psuedoelements lol). Almost everyone will be able to create and assign badges themselves. We'll record who has what badges and stuff in a pinned post or something, and fakes will be hunted down and sent to gulag.

If you want to be a minister or an officer post your reason below, the following people who posted in the "What's your job in the communist society" thread have dibs:

I didn't count anyone who acted like they wanted to kill communists!

If you have dibs, say what you want your title to be and I'll put your name and title in the sidebar or make a pinned directory or something and possibly add you to the mod list

It can be as fancy sounding as you want, in fact, the more glorious the better! power to the people!

If you don't have dibs, post below what you want your job in the communist society to be.

We are notably missing:

poet , suggestion maker , someone who knows how to make lattes , story tellers , uniform makers , fortune tellers , theoretical farmers , actual farmers , astrophysicists , and rocket scientists (this may be important to creating a space program!)

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Cruelty is bad

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Being nice is hard

Watch angry exchange between Trump and Zelensky at White House

Libs are super mad but I have seen 2 bit western journ*lists disrespect Asian and African leaders this way a bunch of times and libs celebrate it as clapping back.

I personally think it's great that everyone gets to see under the covers about what the empire thinks of you. Let's be clear, the dems lost on purpose so the right could do this and get applause from its audience. And then in 4 years we may flip over and the theater will play a different movie for the lib fans. But it's just theater at the end of the day.

One thing that pops out quite strongly to me is that when Trump tells Zelensky that they aren't winning the war, Zelensky responds with

We are staying in our country. We are staying strong

Zelensky can't even say in public that they are winning, or have a chance of winning. Only that the fighting will continue. He wants to continue bleeding Ukrainian lives no matter what. He has no rebuke to Trump's statement that they are wasting life, or gambling with WW3. It's a testament of how delusional you have to be that Trump is coming across as the reasonable voice of peace when dealing with you!

That's what I thought seeing that, Trump should never be the one making a reasonable statement in any room.

I think to the average dumbass American that exchange made Trump look amazing. Which sucks. He gets to look like the defender of America against meanie ukrainians who want all its guns while simultaneously sending israel everything it wants and continuing the genocide.

Everyone is pissing on the floor and demanding you respect how strong their piss streams are

really? idk to me both vance and trump look like wimps, zelensky being allowed to yap like that and not instantly being shut down in place makes them look weak. ive seen people have more authority in daily life tbh.

wouldn't be lemmygrad without a "a strong leader should silence the weak" type opinion

You gotta remember your a lot more educated on this tho. Most Americans are gonna see like a few second clip that the media cuts to make zelensky look extra mean and theyll use the "your playing with WW3" line from Trump to make him look like this big peace defender. Then theyll say he kicked zelensky out of the WH for being rude, and the average american will eat it up.

Lol, they fricking kicked him out of the White House

And of course Sheepdog Sanders has to come out and show how much of a neocon agenda loyalist he is now:

Such a disappointment of a man.

It's also just stupid, even in terms of purely cynical political gain. Three years ago it was certainly politically advantageous to virtue signal support for Ukraine. But we can see which way the wind is blowing now. The US wants to ditch project Ukraine and they are currently in the process of unwinding the heroization propaganda surrounding Zelensky. This public humiliation ritual was just the latest part of that image tarnishing.

And the veil that has hidden the ugly reality of what has been going on in Ukraine for these past years will be slowly lifted by the media so that the US can say "it's not our fault the war was lost, look how corrupt they turned out to be". And many of the European leaders, as well as the Democrats and "progressives" in the US, who insist on tying their political credibility to the sinking ship that is Zelensky may well be dragged down along with him.

If you're going to be a rat at least be a smart one. Know when it's time to jump ship.

Reminder that Lemmygrad exists because the Supreme Sinophobe Bardfinn used AHS to get /r/genzedong quarantined by reddit admins

Look at that BRAIN OBSIDIAN:

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Yes, it's me, @holden_commodore filling in for the communists again while they're busy having their joint self-criticism sessions and tarot reading conference

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(CNN) —  When a series of lightning strikes took down power across New York City on the night of July 13, 1977, streetlights, neon signs, and the bright lights of houses and skyscrapers went dark.

And just like that, for the first time in decades, the Milky Way could be seen streaked across the black sky, speckled by thousands of shimmering stars.

"I saw a (starry) sky from my location in the Bronx," said Joe Rao, a meteorologist and amateur astronomer who was living in New York City on the night of the blackout, "which I had never seen before and have never seen again."

Barring a freak power outage, the light emanating from towns and cities due to unnatural light sources is so bright that it washes out the stars. Today one-third of all humans, including 80% of North Americans, cannot see the Milky Way.

For a growing number of people, natural darkness has been lost. When the lights went out in 1977, New Yorkers could see how much they were missing.

Light pollution, the term for the brightening of the night sky by unnatural lights, is increasing worldwide. On average, skies are getting 10% brighter each year globally, with the fastest rate of change in North America.

Many species are suffering the consequences. Every year, up to one billion birds in the US are killed by colliding with buildings, a global crisis exacerbated by bright lights drawing them off their migratory paths at night. Unnatural lighting can disorient insects, and affect the leaf development of trees. A 2017 study found that light pollution poses a threat to 30% of vertebrates and more than 60% of invertebrates that are nocturnal.

Nesting sea turtles, which rely on the reflection of light on the water from celestial bodies to guide them to the ocean, can be disoriented by unnatural lights around beaches, resulting in fatal dehydration or predation.

"We've found sea turtles in elevator shafts," said Rachel Tighe, lighting project manager at Sea Turtle Conservancy, a Florida-based nonprofit funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. For the animals, she added, "it's confusion and chaos."

And humans are affected, too. While the health implications of unnatural light are still being investigated, research has linked light pollution to obesity, depression, sleep disorders, diabetes, and cancer.

"We know that if you start to shift temperatures you have really profound impacts on organisms across ecosystems, so you would imagine that if we start to mess with light cycles, we might have similarly profound impacts," said Professor Kevin Gaston, a light pollution expert at the University of Exeter, in the UK. "We're all ultimately dependent on this stuff for our very existence."

Unlike other environmental issues like climate change and deforestation, the problem of light pollution could be curbed overnight — by turning off the lights.

In 2020, the small town of Crestone, Colorado, switched off its streetlights when it ran out of money to pay the electricity bill. At night, the streets were dark, but the sky above was bright with stars.

"At the next meeting (of the Board of Trustees), someone said, 'You know, we kind of like it dark,'" recalled Kairina Danforth, mayor of Crestone at the time. Inspired to preserve natural darkness, the town decided to leave the streetlights off.

Soon, Crestone became one of a growing number of towns around the world officially recognized as a Dark Sky community by DarkSky International, an organization that promotes the battle against light pollution.

"We are probably the only Dark Sky community in the world that has no residential lights because they couldn't afford to pay the bill," said Danforth. "Now there's a strong communal support for our dark sky."

As Crestone, and the residents of New York City in 1977, can attest, a total blackout will bring back the stars instantaneously. But efforts to tackle light pollution need not be so extreme to make a big difference, said Ruskin Hartley, CEO of DarkSky International.

"The solutions are simple," he said, "and they don't involve giving up anything apart from bad quality lighting."

Light pollution experts abide by the mantra: "keep it low, keep it shielded, keep it long." In other words, ensure that lighting is low to the ground, that it is targeted to avoid light leaking in all directions, and, if possible, that it has a long wavelength, typically observed as amber colored. Finally, turn lights off when they're not needed.

Some communities are following DarkSky's recommendations by retrofitting their lighting fixtures to reduce light pollution, or simply turning off more lights. DarkSky International has worked with communities and nature reserves in 22 countries to provide support and give official accreditation to areas that have made positive changes. Nearly 300 areas are now accredited.

In 2022, DarkSky, in collaboration with the Czech Republic, developed a European policy brief on reducing light pollution, recommending that "all light should have a clear purpose," that it "should be directed only to where needed," and that it "should be no brighter than necessary." The brief suggests using current EU legislative frameworks — on biodiversity, climate change, and energy efficiency — to push for light pollution mitigation measures.

As of October 2022, 20 pieces of nationwide legislation that concern the mitigation of light pollution had been introduced in nine member states of the European Union since 2000, according to the Czech Republic's Ministry of the Environment.

Countries are further incentivized by potential economic advantages. Electric-powered indoor and outdoor lights consume 17% to 20% of global electricity production, according to the European policy brief, and cutting usage means cutting costs. Areas with dark skies are also benefitting from astrotourism, a growing trend in which tourists travel to stargaze in locations with lower levels of light pollution.

"(Under) the stars are the places we told our first stories," said Hartley. "For many communities, these have been erased and lost because of the scourge of light pollution. But more and more are starting to recover and rediscover this."

Wildlife is benefitting, too. The Sea Turtle Conservancy has changed over 30,000 lights and estimates it has darkened over 45 miles of nesting beach in Florida since 2010, possibly saving as many as tens of thousands of hatchlings. "It's really cool to be able to see such a change so quickly," Tighe said.

Despite positive changes, stemming light pollution is an uphill battle.

Even in some parts of Chile's Atacama Desert, one of the darkest places on Earth, you can now see a distant glow emanating from nearby La Serena, one of the country's fastest-growing cities, said Hartley.

"You can't escape it anymore, and it is just a product of waste and ignorance," he added. "How can we get more people to care about this?"

For Rao, who was 21 on the night that the Milky Way appeared above his house in the Bronx, and is now 68, optimism for the fate of our skies is at an all-time low. "I'm beginning to wonder whether anybody is going to be able to see a good dark sky anymore, 30, 40 years from now," he said. "It's very, very sad."

But as the movement to save the dark grows, there is still a faint hope that a star-studded future is possible.

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Astronomers have been left red-faced after announcing the discovery of a new near-Earth asteroid — only to realize that the supposed space rock was the remains of Elon Musk's cherry-red Tesla Roadster and its spacesuit-clad driver "Starman."

The misidentified object, which was launched into space on board a SpaceX rocket in 2018, highlights a growing problem in astronomy that could lead to costly errors, researchers say.

On Jan. 2, the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center (MPC) added a new object, dubbed 2018 CN41, to its list of near-Earth asteroids. The supposed space rock was identified by an unnamed amateur astronomer in Turkey using years of publicly available data, Astronomy.com reported. However, just 17 hours later, the MPC released an editorial notice retracting the discovery after the citizen scientist realized they had made a mistake.

The Tesla Roadster, which was previously used by Elon Musk, was launched into space on Feb. 6, 2018, as the test payload for the maiden launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket. The publicity stunt garnered widespread attention at the time, partly due to Starman — a mannequin in the car's driving seat that was wearing a likely defective spacesuit and "listening" to David Bowie's album "Space Oddity" on loop.

The car and its driver headed toward Mars after escaping Earth's gravity and were supposed to enter a stable orbit around the Red Planet, which raised alarms at the time that it could become a potential Martian "biothreat" if it accidentally crash-landed there. However, the pair overshot their target and instead entered a stable orbit around the sun. Now, it circles the sun and occasionally zooms past Mars.

The Tesla has now completed roughly 4.5 trips around the sun, traveling at roughly 45,000 mph (72,000 km/h), according to whereisroadster.com. This means that the car has now exceeded its initial 36,000-mile warranty around 100,00 times.

However, the car is probably unrecognizable now after being exposed to years of intense radiation from the sun and bombarded by tiny fragments of space rocks, which have likely stripped the outer layers of the car and shredded Starman.

This is not the first time that human-made objects have been mistaken for near-Earth asteroids. The MPC has temporarily listed a number of spacecraft as space rocks over the last two decades — including the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, NASA's Lucy probe, the joint European-Japanese BepiColombo mission and others — as well as rocket boosters and other debris, according to Astronomy.com.

This type of confusion will also likely increase as more human-made objects are launched into space.

These misidentifications could lead to more false alarms for near-Earth asteroids, which could in turn result in costly errors, Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard and Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told Astronomy.com. "Worst case [scenario], you spend a billion [dollars] launching a space probe to study an asteroid and only realize it's not an asteroid when you get there," he said.

While space agencies and private companies are required to accurately track their products in orbit around Earth, there is currently no legislation that forces them to do the same for spacecraft and debris that escape Earth's gravity, like the Tesla Roadster.

However, "such transparency is essential for promoting space situational awareness, reducing interference between missions, [and] avoiding interference with observations of natural objects," members of the American Astronomical Society warned in a 2024 statement.

!grillers, it's so simple! we need to abandon our both-sidery and embrace leftism.

/u/sandhillcranefan, get back to me when you pay your first tax bill.

Astronomers say they've detected a mysterious type of signal known as a fast radio burst coming from an ancient, dead galaxy billions of light years away. Figuratively speaking, it makes for one heck of a sign of life.

The findings, documented in two studies published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, upends the long held belief that FRBs — extremely powerful pulses of energy — originate exclusively from star-forming regions of space, as dead galaxies no longer support the birth of new stars.

Adding to the seeming improbability of the FRB's origin, the researchers believe that the signal's source came from the furthermost outskirts of the galaxy, about 130,000 light years from its center, with only moribund stars at the end of their stellar evolution for company.

"This is both surprising and exciting, as FRBs are expected to originate inside galaxies, often in star-forming regions," said Vishwangi Shah, lead author of one of the studies and an astronomer at McGill University, said in a statement about the work.  "The location of this FRB so far outside its host galaxy raises questions as to how such energetic events can occur in regions where no new stars are forming."

Though they're often only milliseconds in duration, FRBs are so powerful at their source that a single pulse emits more energy than our Sun does in an entire year.

What could cause such staggering outbursts? Astronomers have speculated that they originate from magnetars, a type of collapsed, extremely dense stellar object called a neutron star that maintains an unfathomably potent magnetic field, perhaps trillions of times stronger than Earth's.

But that theory is now being challenged by this latest FRB, designed FRB 20240209A, because there are no young stars in the 11.3 billion year old galaxy that could form magnetars. Only extremely massive stars, which have short lifespans as a consequence of their size and thus would need to have been recently formed, possess enough mass to collapse into neutron stars in the first place.

FRB 20240209A isn't the first to be found in such a remote location. In 2022, astronomers detected another signal originating from the outskirts of its galaxy, Messier 81, where no active star formation was taking place.

"That event single-handedly halted the conventional train of thought and made us explore other progenitor scenarios for FRBs," said Wen-fai Fong, a coauthor of both studies and an astrophysicist at Northwestern University, in the statement. "Since then, no FRB had been seen like it, leading us to believe it was a one-off discovery — until now."

Crucially, the M81 FRB was found in a dense conglomeration of stars called a globular cluster. Given their similar circumstances, it led the astronomers to believe that FRB 20240209A could be residing in a globular cluster, too. To confirm this hunch, they hope to use the James Webb Telescope to image the region of space around the FRB's origins

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Scientists Just Discovered an Impossible Particle

Understanding the ins and outs of the subatomic world is a confusing process, but there are moments of surprising simplicity. For example, all fundamental particles (that we know of) can be naturally divided into two categories: fermions and bosons. Fermions contain all the particles of matter (i.e. quarks and leptons) and are characterized by their half-integer spin values whereas bosons are all force carriers—gluons, w and z bosons, photons, and of course, the Higgs boson—and have spin values in whole integers, so 0 or 1 (or possibly 2 if gravitons exist).

These different properties mean fermions and bosons also behave differently. Don Lincon, a senior scientist at the U.S. particle physics laboratory Fermilab, describes bosons as "puppies of the subatomic world" because you can have an unlimited number of bosons in the same place at the same time. This is why lasers exist, for example. However, fermions are standoffish (or "subatomic cats," according to Lincoln) because two fermions cannot be in the same place at the same time due to the Pauli exclusion principle, which states that no two electrons (each with opposite spins) can occupy the same atomic orbital.

In other words, particles in between these two states shouldn't exist, but a new mathematical study from two scientists from Rice University in Texas and Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Germany suggests otherwise. By using advanced mathematical techniques, the researchers found that these "paraparticles" could theoretically exist within the known confines of physics. The results of this study were published in the journal Nature.

"This is cross-disciplinary research that involves several areas of theoretical physics and mathematics," Max Planck Institute,'s Zhiyuan Wang, a former postdoctoral student at Rice University and study co-author, said in a press statement.

Mathematically proving the existence of paraparticles, the existence of which has been debated for 70 years, wasn't an easy task. The duo relied on advanced mathematics, such as Lie algebra, Hopf algebra, and representation theory to create mathematical models of dense matter systems, and found that these hypothetical paraparticles in one and two dimensions behaved differently from fermions and bosons when they exchanged their positions, allowing a certain number of particles to congregate rather than just one (fermions) or infinitely many (bosons).

"Our paper proves, for the first time, that there is actually something beyond fermions and bosons," Wang told New Scientist.

Although this new mathematical description is a huge breakthrough, its impact is still unknown, and Rice University co-author Kaden Hazzard even says he doesn't know exactly where this research will lead, but "I know it will be exciting to find out." So far, the research doesn't hypothetically show evidence for the existence of paraparticles in the third dimension (though it doesn't rule it out either) and how likely these hypothetical paraparticles occur in nature is currently unknown.

As New Scientist notes, these paraparticles are actually quasiparticles, which emerge from strong interactions between particles, and are not fundamental particles themselves. However, the discovery of the quasiparticle known as anyons could prove vital for developing future quantum computers, so the further exploration of these paraparticles could lead science into new areas previously believed to be impossible.

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Life as we know it is based on carbon chemistry, and now the James Webb Space Telescope may have shown where much of that carbon originates. The discovery is thanks to shells of carbon dust expanding outward from a duo of massive stars.

The system in question is called WR 140, and incorporates two massive stars that will both ultimately go supernova. Located just shy of 5,000 light-years away from us in the constellation of Cygnus, the Swan, one of the stars is a massive O-type behemoth — the hottest, most luminous kind of star with a powerful wind of radiation. Its partner is a Wolf–Rayet (WR) star. Such stars are massive as well, but toward the end of their life they become tumultuous as internal instabilities lead them to hurriedly shed mass in bursts and torrents, ultimately revealing their evolved interiors.

The two stars don't have perfectly circular orbits about one another. Their paths are elongated, bringing them closer and then farther away from each other every 7.9 years. At their closest point, called periastron, the two stars are just 1.3 astronomical units (AU) from each other. That's 120.8 million miles (194.5 million kilometers), which is just a little farther than Earth is from the sun.

The JWST has imaged 17 concentric shells of dust ringing the binary star system WR 140. (Image credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Emma Lieb and Jennifer Hoffman (University of Denver/Ryan Lau (NSF NOIRLab))

For several months around periastron, the sleet of material shaken off the Wolf–Rayet star crashes into the fierce radiation wind emitted by the O-type star. In the maelstrom of this fierce collision, the particles in the winds from the two stars collide, compress into clumps and ultimately cool, allowing carbon-rich dust just millionths of a meter in size to form. This dust produces a ring or shell around the two massive stars, which then begins drifting outward. Eight years later, at the next periastron, a new ring forms — and so on and so forth.

Previously, only the innermost few rings from this event had been seen in visible and infrared light. Now, however, thanks to its Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), the JWST has imaged 17 clumpy, concentric ring-like shells around the WR 140 system, that are expanding into space. The clumps, some of which are the size of our entire solar system, are where dust production is at its greatest.

The expanding shells aren't sluggish either. They're racing away from the binary system at 1,600 miles per second (about 2,600 kilometers per second). That's almost 1% of the speed of light (0.87% to be precise).

"The telescope … showed that the dust shells are moving outward at consistent velocities, revealing visible changes over incredibly short periods of time," Emma Lieb, a doctoral student at the University of Denver in Colorado who has led the new research, said in a statement.

>Two JWST MIRI images of the WR 140 system taken 14 months apart, showing how the shells have expanded during that time (demonstrated in the frame on the right). (Image credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Emma Lieb and Jennifer Hoffman (University of Denver/Ryan Lau (NSF NOIRLab).)

"We are used to thinking about events in space taking place slowly, over millions or billions of years," Jennifer Hoffman, a professor of astronomy also at the University of Denver, said in the same statement. "In this system, the observatory is showing that the dust shells are expanding from one year to the next."

The oldest visible shells are 130 years old, but these close encounters between the two stars during WR 140's Wolf–Rayet stage have been ongoing for hundreds of thousands of years. The older rings would either be too faint even for even the JWST to see, or have dissipated into space. It's expected that the system will form tens of thousands more shells too over the next few hundred thousand years.

And then — bang.

The Wolf–Rayet star currently has a mass 10 times that of our sun, and while it continues to shed mass, it's not going to slim down enough to avoid exploding as a supernova (the lower limit is eight solar masses). So, what happens then to the shells of carbon-rich dust?

There are two possibilities. One is that the supernova shockwave destroys some or all of the dust shells, and the other is that the supernova fails to detonate if the core of the star collapses under its own gravity so completely that it forms a black hole that swiftly pulls in the rest of the star inward. In the latter case, there wouldn't be a supernova, and the shells of carbon dust would be free to expand into deep space and join the interstellar medium from which the raw materials for the next generation of stars and planets comes.

"A major question in astronomy is, where does all the dust come from?" asked Ryan Lau, an astronomer at the National Science Foundation's NOIRLab in Tucson, Arizona, said in the statement. "If carbon-rich dust like this survives, it could help us begin to answer that question."

Carl Sagan once evocatively described us as "starstuff," in the sense that we are made from elements born in stars. If the shells of carbon-rich dust imaged by the JWST can survive the termination of the Wolf–Rayet star, we may be looking at the creation of the very starstuff that goes on to form life.

"We know carbon is necessary for the formation of rocky planets and solar systems like ours," said Hoffman. "It's exciting to get a glimpse into how binary star systems not only create carbon-rich dust, but also propel it into our galactic neighborhood."

The new JWST imagery and findings was presented at the 245th meeting of the American Astronomical Society on 13th January, and have been published in Astrophysical Journal Letters.

If we compare overall PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) scores of China and the US, China comes out 9.3% ahead of the US. This might seem like a big number but in practice this is a big enough number that makes it possible for China to completely surpass the US no matter what moves the US makes.

The reason for this is simple. It is akin to 115-130 IQ person competing with a 100 IQ person and both are going all out. The 115-130 IQ person is obviously going to win barring a car accident.

The intelligence gap also makes China smart enough to create the next generation of global technology where the US has hit the wall. China already owns Epic Games ( the company with the most used video game engine in current year ), and has already taken over the minds of the American zoomer with Chinese content. Today, when a US company wants to make an actually successful product for the market, they go to the Chinese.

Singapore for comparison is 14.3% smarter than the US, and while being a very small tiny Island nation, has a quality of life and Per capita PPP income that is 71% higher than that of the average American. Which is to say, small percentage superiority in intelligence has very vast real world effects.

China is 32% smarter than Mongolia, which guarantees that China is going to own Mongolia no matter what happens.

China is also guaranteed to dominate Russia and South East Asia and practically own them.

Conclusion:

The Chinese have become too smart to stop and had too high a starting population. Which means they are going to completely dominate global trade followed by surpassing Europe and the US in nominal GDP terms followed by surpassing these territories by nominal per capita GDP terms.

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As I have been telling you guys, American technological capabilities appear to have peaked, and the starship exploding repeatedly is just more evidence to support that theory. A starship is just too big to get out of atmosphere safely with today's cutting edge technology. What they should do instead is to use the falcon rockets to set up a manufacturing space station and build the giant rockets out in space itself where they do not need to deal with moving through the atmosphere.

With the US failing to make a successful starship and there being 3-6 months gap between launches, China has ample time to catch up to the US, as they are already halfway through having reusable rockets of their own, meanwhile the US is unable to get any further ahead.

Conclusion:

US tech has stalled. China catch up and surpasses because they have higher IQ than Americans. Next generation of technology expected to come out of the US in the 2030s comes out of China instead.

Elon Musk's net worth has gotten stuck in the 400 billions. If it was going to go up higher it would have done so by now, taking into account that his team is in the white house right now.

SpaceX has also clearly peaked as they got their reusable rocket working, but beyond that there is not much else to be done in terms of technological revolution for SpaceX, and moon mining is still many decades away.

Tesla has also peaked as their vehicles aren't getting any cheaper, and they are now facing global competition in the electric vehicle market from BYD, significantly limiting their future expansion outside of the US.

The social media company X also appears to be holding on to its market share when it comes to users, and does not really have any further scope for growth, unless Elon were to actually buy tiktok.

This leaves Grok the AI, which is left attached to Tesla products and to be used on twitter. Which limits the number of users to the number of people already using Elon Musk's products and services. That is, Grok AI itself is less a product, and more an accessory to Tesla products.

Elon Musk has also been talking of opening up a video game company, but by the looks of it, it is pretty much apparent that the video gaming industry is going to be far more competitive than it was when Amazon tried to get into it.

All in all, it becomes apparent that Elon Musk's net wealth has peaked in the 400s of billions and that the market share of his companies is also soon going to peak due to the limited size of the American market, and the amount of competition from other companies in the global market. That is to say, Elon Musk and his companies have peaked, and we are unlikely to see anything else truly revolutionary come out of them. Including the robotics side of things, where the humanoid robots if they make it, would still end up being overpriced in relation to international product prices, and likely even middle income American budgets.

In conclusion:

The US is not going to lead in any further tech revolutions or new era of technological innovation or ideas. What the US is going to lead in at best is iterative improvements so for the next 30-50 years the only thing we can expect from America is improvements in products and ways of doing things that already exist but better.

This would also mean that the global market is going to continue eating up the US share of the global market, as the US market fails to add additional layers of complexity and income brackets to its own economy, due to all wealth accumulating in a few hands.

US market is reaching its peak global market share. It will not expand beyond this point, but will always be at risk of shrinking beyond this point, until one day it finally does. US economic growth will remain slower than the global economic growth, as that is the only way that the US can remain competitive in the market. Cutting costs forever until there are no more costs left to cut.

The last innovative billionaire in the US is done. It is over now. The CEO of Nvidia doesn't count, as he is currently doing more marketing than actual product to match the advertised quality. OpenAI also doesn't count because we do not have AGI yet. They can be counted if they ever manage to actually make smarter than human AI which is very likely to be never.