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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 15h

Das Helium braucht man, damit es etwas weniger lächerlich klingt, wenn man solche Nachrichten vorliest.

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 17h

Basically, Limiting Factor is admitting he has been a Tesla shill the whole time. youtu.be/_FGnkY6Oc_Q?...

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So long, and thanks for all the fish 🤠

YouTube video by The Limiting Factor

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 23h

Die eindimensionale Diskussion von Politik (aka: Links-Rechts-Denken) ist mit großem Abstand der Hauptgrund für die Unmöglichkeit sinnvoller politischer Diskussionen in allen demokratischen Staaten. Es wird wirklich Zeit, dieses dumme Artefakt der Französischen Revolution zu überwinden.

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think that the cost factor of the wet process has been far overstated by Tesla. Otherwise: How could all the other batteries ever have become so much cheaper in the last 6 years since "Battery Day"? Certainly fits the pattern with other grandiose statements Musk made in the last decade or so.

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

SpaceX is not a serious or reliable company. This is unfortunate. I've known and been following the company for almost exactly two decades, but for all the success - this is what it has come to. If you make business with SpaceX, prepare for a strong possibility of disappointment.

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just keep partisan politics out of science. It's that simple. Geological epochs - most commonly lasting millions of years - should not be defined within human life spans on the behest of activist groups. For the same reason, Pluto is not a planet, despite American misgivings.

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Trump is just like covid. He's a sickness that has befallen a country and nobody wants to go there. They may need quarantine. I suggest a zero Trump policy.

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ha. People actually DID try to make sodium electrical wire (in plastic tubing) a reality as an alternative to copper! (Casually dropped by Applied Science in a video on a weird sodium electrical generator contraption.) youtu.be/l0qqUE1pgXU?...

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

About 18 months ago, Trump retreated from most of his tariffs of "Liberation day" when the 10-year-bond yield briefly rose above 4.5%. About a year ago, it had fallen back to 4%. Now, we're at ... oh dear.

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Erm.... in hindsight. Did I miss something or was there any of the recently so obligatory "USA USA USA" shouting during the last Starship launch?

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ok. A company has had $4.6bn in revenue, achieved by spending $12.6bn on operations, resulting in $8bn of operating(!) loss. The net loss of the company as a whole was $42bn. It wants put out shares valuing the company at $2000 bn. ($2 trillion) BULLSHIT. www.reuters.com/business/fin...

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EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows sweeping AI vision, surging costs

Anthropic is making a massive bet that AI will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters. But ...

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is obviously 7 years (since 2019). My mind lives in the unfathomable future!

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ich glaube, 30,5 Grad ist von meinen "etwa 30 Grad" im Artikel noch abgedeckt. 55 km daneben. Na gut.

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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Orbits for the Starlink Group 31-1 sats are now available on @celestrak.bsky.social showing them in a 262 x 275 km x 30.5 deg orbit.

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Credibility of science publishing is at rock bottom, because publishers refuse to employ their own staff for even basic fact checking of papers.

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

SpaceX once said they planned to fly orbital missions using Starship by early 2020. This was said 8 years and 2 months ago: spacenews.com/spacex-flies...

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

US interest rates are back up to dotcom era levels. But there is a nuance: Back then, the US was having a budget surplus and interest rates were going down. Now there is a record deficit spending despite nominally red hot economic growth. Interest rates are only going up and will keep going.

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Starship booster had no reserves for landing. Starship just lost an engine. Booster lost an engine. Looks like bad attitude control on Starship as well. SpaceX screwed up again.

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Frequency of fires in the Amazon. The Amazon rainforest has been burning down for thousands of years - by the people living there, because the Amazon has never been the natural untouched magical fairy land as it is talked about. It was home to lots of people. biogeography.pensoft.net/article/1698...

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Btw, visible light is just as good at heating stuff up as infrared light. It's "heat radiation" because that's the only thing it does, not because no other radiation heats stuff up. Maybe you already knew. But I just remembered that I realized this only at some point pretty late in my life.

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And what if we don't need constant shouting, accusations, provocations and social strive to prevent the end of the world?

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Higher bond yields mark a return to normal" ... I don't know. This sounds almost like the classic 1929 statement "the stock market has reached a permanently high plateau" to me. youtu.be/isaPBxQVo8A?...

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Higher Bond Yields Mark a Return to Normal

YouTube video by Bloomberg Television

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's always fun to predict the future when it is already happening, but few people notice. Millet and sorghum will be much more important crops in the rest of the 21st century than they are today - due to water efficiency, drought resistance and aquifer over-use in rain-limited agriculture.

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Egghat @egghat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

DER SPIEGEL: Wahlkommission in Israel stimmt für Ausschluss arabischer Parteien „In etwa einem Monat treten die Bürgerinnen und Bürger in Israel an die Wahlurne. Jetzt wird wohl das Oberste Gericht entscheiden müssen, ob die größten Parteien der arabischen Minderheit zur Wahl stehen.“ #badnews

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Wahlkommission in Israel stimmt für Ausschluss arabischer Parteien

In etwa einem Monat treten die Bürgerinnen und Bürger in Israel an die Wahlurne. Jetzt wird wohl das Oberste Gericht entscheiden müssen, ob die größten Parteien der arabischen Minderheit zur Wahl stehen.

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

April 2025, the ancient times when Starship V3 still had 9 Raptor 3 engines, was supposed to fly in November 2025 and had 200 tons of payload. (And Starship V2 had 100t instead of 35t.) Of course, this guy is psychotic enough that he doesn't care about these contradictions. youtu.be/0SA_GVVhIKo?...

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SpaceX Unveils MASSIVE Starship Upgrade! Production begins on even crazier version!

YouTube video by What about it!?

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Peter Beck also doesn't real world understand economics of rockets. Reusability doesn't lead to increased launch cadence. This is not at all self-reinforcing, it's actually self limiting at the scale of whatever the actual market demand turns out to be. youtu.be/9lYK4laa4tk?...

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Why Space Infrastructure Costs 10x Less Now | Peter Beck

YouTube video by MTS

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is typical behavior for Hurricanes in that area. But of course it will be (and already is) blamed on global climate change.

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Exakt. Realitätsverlust ist die Universalkonstante der Politik des frühen 21. Jahrhunderts.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Turns out that whether your 18 - 34 younger electorate is trending to the Far Right or to the Left depends on whether they'd rather stay in Magdeburg or move to Berlin

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Science publishing is basically done. They don't care about the veracity of their content, but they are perceived as being Capital S Science. We live in a dark age of fragmented, usually unreliable and all too often just fraudulent science. youtu.be/4g_1_AWOVpI?...

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Faked Images of Neurons in Major Journals

YouTube video by Sholto David

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Es ist 18:47. In meiner Timeline befindet sich kein einziger Post mit den konkreten Wahlprognosen von Berlin, aber gleich mehrere zu denen von Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Any correct interpretation of the Bible has to start by stating the indisputable fact that the dates calculated for the biblical creation of the earth - around 6000 years ago - does not merely coincide with the time when the Sahara and the Middle East dried out, but that this is what it describes.

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Spaceflight is an industry where everybody seems to chase 3% more efficiency by full flow staged combustion, but shrugs their shoulders about losing 20% or 30% or 50% of payload due to bad construction decisions of rockets.

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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 16/09/2026

Here is the reality. We have the votes to impeach Pete Hegseth tomorrow. Mike Johnson knows it, we know it. So he’s sending us all home to avoid the vote. www.cnn.com/2026/09/16/p...

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House to adjourn early, stave off Hegseth impeachment vote | CNN Politics

Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday announced he is sending members home from Washington early for their seven-week campaigning recess ahead of the midterm elections, a move that will stave off a vote o...

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Black Hawk Down" used to be a big deal. As a matter of fact, the American public is now about as well informed of the status of its military as the Russian people about their special military operations.

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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This piece includes a link to and analysis of a pretty incredible CBS News report of pictures sent by active service members (!) of the kind of destruction the Iranians have wrought on near defenseless U.S. bases.

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Das Starship soll in den Orbit fliegen und kein Stück wiederverwendbar sein.

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"The legislation would give HIS MAJESTY THE KING tariff authority against countries buying Russian energy, target Russia's shadow fleet and foreign suppliers, and extend Iran sanctions." Structurally, this is impossible to recognize as a democratic process. It's a monarchy with some elections.

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

22 satellites were 37.5 tons, so this is a bit over 40 tons of payload. But the booster won't land and fully return, which will give additional performance margin. Imagine Falcon 9 launching with 4t of payload instead of 17.5t, while ditching the booster. That's the rough equivalent in scale.

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Large, sudden climate shifts are a common feature of earth, including historic preindustrial times. The collapse of the Green Sahara and moist Arab peninsula was not some gradual process taking thousands of years. It took no more than 200-300 years! youtu.be/flTNZXTDYQw?...

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Gavin Shoebridge @kiwiev.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This EV conversion actually sounds pretty authentic. 😁

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