Everywhere on the net is talking about an upcoming sn15 launch this week. Fact is that they had not even a static fire test until now.

The launch history of SN8-11 makes likely a static fire test in the upcoming days (possible weekend), and a flight test sometimes on the end of the next week.

5 Different projects all at once at the launch site in one photo.

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Can you spot all 5?

The super big crane was moved, likely to get out of blast range of SN15. The second steel column was added to the launch tower. Very cool stuff happening, and fast.

SpaceX letting their dogs out for a walk. Zeus and Apollo strolling about.

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Glad they are not yet armed. Freaky. Boston Dynamics is SkyNet's precursor.

@geoffc Yeah, their robots will soon weapons in their hands.

@geoffc And imagine the starlink, with his 1200 satellites. Imagine another, for example, 10000 satellites, with the capability to collide with anything, including ICBMs.

@peterh Cross the perimeter to take a pic, robot dog approaches, warns, escalates as needed.

@peterh I prefer the idea of redirecting a landing booster on an enemies house.

@geoffc Except that there is no time machine, and there is no known power to win an army of a million of such robots. There will be no resistance, only minor regional conflicts, like the nato bombardment of Serbia in 1998, and all thw power of the world will fall in the USA.

@peterh Hahah.

More clearly, into the hands of the U.S. political elite, who will no more need any democratic control and similars.

Alternative future: same fate, but China will be on the top.

But I do not think that such a system could get ever "awake", to have a self-consciousness. That is not how things in the IT work. Such a complex system can not be ever monolithic and if some organization center of the robotic army becomes hostile against its constructors, it would be simply turned off on the spot. More likely, it would be automatically deactivated by its internal embedded test mechanisms.

Which poses an interesting question. As problematic as you might think US politicians are, do you think Chinese ones are better? Sadly, I expect Uhoh is about to find out in the next few years. which I think is likely to be a terrible outcome.

AI is confusing. I think it is much like that scene in Avengers: Endgame, where they discuss time travel and discount "hot tub time machine, Back to the Future" etc. But now for AI - discard Terminator, this movie, that movie... (Can't actually think of many AI base dmovies offhand).

Chinese are worser. They are communists. They are not nice guys. In the 60s, they just killed ten millions of people only because Mao wanted a better control over the communist party. Totalitarian ideologies are inherently not nice. The fear of the U.S. robotic army roots in the fear from that the U.S. is always more similar to the CCP.

@geoffc I've today had a job interview by a company. They are developing an AI tool to massively analyze CVs and linkedin profiles. They are using it for these: 1) finetune recruiter spam 2) they sell it as a service for the HR department of some big companies 3) they have surprisingly strong U.S. connections and "forgot" to mention, exactly what type of them

This is a small company in Europe. I have some imagination, what could bigger companies and various "services" do with the databases of the fb, google

@peterh Concur. The data Google/FB/et al have is kind of terrifying. I will not buy a device that listens all the time, from a company that has functionally unlimited storage, and no demonstrated morals. (I break the GAssistant on my phone on purpose).

I was chatting with a friend who wors on a company that uses an AI'ish tool to scan unstructured data, find tables, convert to Excel format to make searching better.

I dunno WHAT they are doing at the old gas well site, but it iis super usy!

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So upper side they are building the domes for the GSE tanks. Also speculated to be building 12m rings to drop around 9m GSE tanks, and then pump the gap full of insulation.

Then at the bottom right they are assembling parts for the launch tower currently being built. Where those elements go in assembly process, who knows. And what are those 12 small concrete squares for, bottom leftish.

our future robot overlords...

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And we have an assigned booster for Starlink 24!!! B1060 on its 7th flight. Last flight Mar 24, so 34 days or so between flights. Nice and quick turn around.

(Flight is scheduled for Apr 28 right now, and Crew-2 mission is tomorrow morning 6AM EST)