Thread by @trengriffin

1/ In my podcast about the space business this week the hard part was making the explanation simple without making it dumb. I was reluctant to do the podcast at all for that reason. I have lots of data about X, Y and Z. I tried instead to paint a picture with a very broad brush.

2/ "We need dreamers and doers.They don't talk about it. They go do shit. They bend metal. They make machines that make machines when you can't get the part you need. Those kinds of people help everybody else say, 'Okay, well I can create things too.'" joincolossus.com/episodes/51296…

3/ While watching Starship land for the first time people's eyes are going to be bugging out. And eventually somebody will yell, "This thing was just grabbed by a huge mechanical arm. It's going to take off again in two hours!"

This is one (1) Starship landing fin. It's huge!

4/ What's the biggest risk for SpaceX? It is financial. They must not run out of cash. One uncertainty: Is there going to be enough demand for launch?” And one of the ways to create enough demand for launch is to be your own demand. And so there's Starlink. There will be others.

5/ We need big romantic efforts to inspire people to do things like make less energy intensive X or whatever. We people who really make us think, "Wow, let's do something really amazing. Let's capture carbon." Whatever it is, we need dreamers and most importantly doers. Let's go!

6/ What interests me is: everything everywhere connected by networks easily. Space enables that because it's ubiquitous in terms of its ability to give coverage everywhere. As chips and software and networks become more important, ubiquitous connectivity becomes more important.

7/ Everyone regardless of location having a choice to be connected isn't everyone connected all the time. People who don't have access to networks often have lousy choices. A LEO service serves everyone. That's amazing, but makes the economics hard. But ain't that fun! Let's go!