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@KarlSchroeder Interesting premise. I will read it.

@TristanLaurent V cute! Merry Xmas.

Cowboy riding the rocket no problemo http://t.co/YZdNpwX3

Single camera view of the 40 meter rocket hover http://t.co/Zlh7xC7T

Then we took him for a ride: 40 meter hover flight vid of the SpaceX Grasshopper test rocket http://t.co/2563ykr2

To provide a little perspective on the size of Grasshopper, we added a 6 ft cowboy to the rocket http://t.co/3NMYJqmd

Very much agree with this great review of Chasing Ice on Ars Technica http://t.co/bzMQQyAk

Thanks! “@ev: Have driven a Tesla Model S 50 miles now. It's clearly the iPhone of cars—by far the best car ever made."

A beautiful and awe-inspiring view of Earth from the International Space Station http://t.co/434j058M

Good piece on volcanoes “@DanRetz: The USGS would seem to disagree. http://t.co/evnCgdC4”

@prbowman Roughly equivalent to a 747 flight from LA to London (one way).

@ImprobableToad That's why I'm a believer in solar power. We have a giant fusion reactor conveniently located in the sky.

Exactly MT "@DanRetz IMHO: continuing the uncontrolled experiment of adding co2 to atmosphere is a bad idea.”

It is hard to argue with a thermometer. Global warming is real and accelerating. Wish it wasn't. http://t.co/wB4w9coU

Cool video recap of the big events of the year by Google #Zeitgeist2012 http://t.co/FZjy4vkL

@Neowolf2 Relative to kerosene, methane is not prone to coking, but we would run v high purity anyway for max Isp.

@chrisbrandow @TEA_in_Space Yup or Douglas Aircraft, creator of the awesome DC-3 http://t.co/4o8OHDCo

My big worry would be long (hopefully) term when I'm dead, eg v sad situation with once great HP @TEA_in_Space

SpaceX will go public at some point, as I think it should ultimately be owned primarily by the public "@bm_ will SpaceX go public?"

@IntlManOfRealty Best to study some form of engineering, which is the art of creating useful things that didn't exist before.