Chris Lewicki (@interplanetary) header
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I help bridge bold space ideas to reality. Former NASA Engr/Flight Director, Planetary Resources CEO/co-founder. Building tools from lessons learned both ways.

Seattle, WA
Joined June 2008
Surprising quote from @davidanderman (frmr Gen Council at Spacex) at the Seattle S4 conference today, promoting Sovera sovereign constellations: “People are saying ‘You can not trust the United States. You can not trust Elon Musk’. And you know they might not be wrong.”
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“Twinkling ceilings” are an appreciated new feature at conference centers to give some life to an indoor space. Seen at the Space Northwest Symposium today.
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Today, watching codex work, I learned the term "Variadic":
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Replying to @nickgraynews @bot
Grok Bot is at least, self-aware. You can ask the agent to hand over the audit.jsonl files for all the agents directly, or for a summary, but its unfortunate that this isn't streamed to the client for a more durable log. Search for "target":"user_machine" lines I didn't see any sus behavior on mine.
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Somehow I missed this one. Wasn't in an IMAX or on a plane at the time. Explains many space movie plots. youtube.com/watch?v=FBFuiHZR…
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Replying to @peterrhague
This sums it up nicely:
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One of my favorite Elon quotes:
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Lots of interesting space quotes from US Space Command's "Space Operating Environment 2040" document, published back in April.
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If the US Government were more AI-pilled, NASA dropping an RFP for Commercial Space Stations in 2026 should look more like this (live concept, real data). Link in comment.
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Thanks for sharing. The determination you cite was the "grandfathered" decision for those satellites already in orbit (all deployed by 2004) which were not designed with the necessary propulsion for de-orbit. My point is NO NEW CONSTELLATION is likely to receive the same treatment. Even Globalstar's new filing states this explicitly for the post-mission disposal strategy.
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