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First flight of SpaceX's Block V Falcon-9 carrying Bangladesh's first communications satellite to orbit
2013 Climate Leadership Gala presented by Earth Day Network
Renaissance Mayflower Hotel, Washington D.C. – May 22, 2013
Climate Visionary Award presented to Elon Musk
WAGE Leadership Award presented to Melanne Verveer
For more information: earthday2013@earthday.org
SpaceX launched the Japanese ispace Hakuto-R Mission 1 robotic moon lander, and NASA's micro-satellite called Lunar Flashlight to look for signs of water ice hidden in the permanently dark crater floors of the moon's poles. After launch, booster B1073 returned to land at LZ-2 on the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Protest sign from St. Paul Minnesota that reads "No Kings! No Nazis!".
Taken at a protest against Elon Musk and the Trump Administration on March 5, 2025.
Thursday evening launch for SpaceX with the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO) from SLC-40 on the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 7:08 p.m. EDT
First flight of SpaceX's Block V Falcon-9 carrying Bangladesh's first communications satellite to orbit
SpaceX launched another batch of 49 Starlink satellites yesterday at 4:49 p.m. EST, from LC-39A on the Kennedy Space Center.
Remote cameras at SLC-40 launch pad capture the liftoff of SpaceX's Falcon 9 on the Dragon CRS-8 mission, the first flight of Dragon since a mishap in June 2016. ©2016 Matthew Travis / Zero-G News
The #Inspiration4 crew (
@rookisaacman
,
@ArceneauxHayley
,
@DrSianProctor
&
@ChrisSembroski
) leaving #SpaceX Hangar X, heading to LC-39A to suit up for their launch, currently set for 8:02pm (ET) tonight.
(Camera:me / Nat Geo)
SpaceX launched the Transporter-3 rideshare mission to a sun-synchronous orbit with 105 small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers Thurday morning at 10:25 a.m. EST. The first stage booster B1058-10 completed its' 10th flight with a RTLS landing at LZ-1 on the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
SpaceX Falcon 9 launched the SES-22 C band TV & 5G data communication satellite for SES of Luxembourg Wednesday afternoon at 5:04 p.m. EDT
Almost ten years ago, I photographed Twitter’s sign on the day of the IPO
theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/04/twitter-ipo-future...
flickr.com/photos/44124466908@N01/sets/72157636170764083
In 2014, there was a protest of the Twitter tax break
flickr.com/photos/44124466908@N01/sets/72157644106175975
2015
flickr.com/photos/44124466908@N01/sets/72157654973120325
(And many more)
In December 2022, I covered a protest of Elon Musk at Twitter
flickr.com/photos/44124466908@N01/sets/72177720309362439
Today, Musk tried to take down the Twitter sign as he changes the name to X.
It was stopped by SFPD & then axe signs & wayfinding (awesome xtraordinary effective) was allowed to remove the i leaving er & the Twitter bird on one side.
A SFPD officer said it was mistaken communication because Musk didn’t contact the owner.
But Musk knew he had to contact the owner because when he covered the W to have titter, the owner made him remove it.
You can see the W he painted white on the ground in a few photos. It didn’t work very well - people could still see the W.
sfist.com/2023/04/10/elon-musk-gets-more-juvenile-paints-...
www.ktvu.com/news/elon-musk-changes-twitter-headquarters-...
There was a lot of media & media coverage
www.theverge.com/2023/7/24/23140317/twitter-sign-sf-hq-re...
sfstandard.com/2023/07/24/twitter-sign-being-removed-down...
www.ktvu.com/news/confusion-during-removal-of-twitter-sig...
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/elon-musk-twitter-sign-x-s...
www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/police-interrupt-as-twitter-l...
www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/twitter-sign-removal-san-fr...
www.cbsnews.com/amp/sanfrancisco/news/elon-musk-reveals-n...
Senate Subcommittee on Defense under the Committee on Appropriations hearing on Our Space Policy . GWU Elliott School Prof. Scott Pace testifies. , Washington DC. March 5, 2014 © Rick Reinhard 2014 email rick@rickreinhard.com
SpaceX booster B1058 made it's 15th launch yesterday with the latest batch of Starlink broadband internet satellites at 4:32 p.m.
Biography of TESLA, SpaceX, SolarCity, Neurolink, Starlink, The Boring Company ... visionary founder and CEO Elon Musk, including family life !
Mandatory reading for every forward thinker -
Textbook REQUIREMENT in every engineering intro class.
SpaceX launched the Japanese ispace Hakuto-R Mission 1 robotic moon lander, and NASA's micro-satellite called Lunar Flashlight to look for signs of water ice hidden in the permanently dark crater floors of the moon's poles. After launch, booster B1073 returned to land at LZ-2 on the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
"Dumbass Oligarchs Gouging Everyone" protest sign.
The Minnesota State Patrol estimates 25,000 gathered at the Minnesota State Capitol this afternoon as part of the nationwide “Hands Off!” protests.
St. Paul, Minnesota
April 5, 2025
Over 20,000 people met at the Minnesota capitol to protest against Republicans, Donald Trump and Elon Musk gutting services, raising prices, and threatening to slash Medicaid and Social Security. This one one of hundreds of protests described as a "national mass activation in defiance of the Trump-Musk billionaire takeover and the far right assault on our freedoms and our communities... an all-in moment for the pro-democracy, pro-worker movement—a demand, a warning, and a rallying cry".
2025-04-05 This is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Give attribution to: Fibonacci Blue
Beautiful morning launch with the latest batch of 60 Starlink broadband internet relay satellites at 8:25 EDT - viewed from Playalinda Beach
SpaceX Falcon 9 launched the SES-22 C band TV & 5G data communication satellite for SES of Luxembourg Wednesday afternoon at 5:04 p.m. EDT
Norveç parlamentosunu oluşturan tüm siyasi partiler, doğa dostu bir karar için kolları sıvadı! 2025 yılından itibaren benzinli araç satışına yasak koyacak olan karar tasarısı; iktidar partilerinden İlerleme Partisi de dahil olmak üzere tüm partilerin ortaklaştığı bir karar oldu.
The Minnesota State Patrol estimates 25,000 gathered at the Minnesota State Capitol this afternoon as part of the nationwide “Hands Off!” protests.
An on target #SpaceX #Falcon9 launch, and NOT so on target ocean landing, for the first stage booster off the coast of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Launched occurred at 1:16 p.m. EST from #SLC40 with the #CRS16 resupply mission heading to the ISS.
“I think if you have the ability and talent in one way, you have it in all ways. I’m not a jack of all trades; I’m a master of many. I don’t feel there is anything I can’t do if I want to.” – Evel Knievel
All great companies are focused around developing a pinwheel product. Their competitive advantage lies in creating a main product and then complimenting it with auxiliary products branded off from the original. As important as the complimentary products will be, the longevity of an organization lies in its ability to distinguish what is their pinwheel product, and by doing so, they will identify what they do better than anyone else.
Jim Collins argues, in his bestselling book “Good to Great”, that we need to base everything we do around the hedgehog concept. We need to pursue those ventures that align with three things: what we are most passionate about, what provides us the greatest return on investment, or profit per X, and what we can do better than anyone else in the world. If we only follow one or two of these ideals, we no longer are providing a solid, value proposition to our customers.
In 1976, Apple started with three people and one product, the Apple I. It was only through developing and perfecting their first product offer that they allowed themselves to create complimentary products like the iPod, iPhone, and iWatch. But what they focused on first was creating a personal computer that was easy to use.
In 1995, Jeff Bezos sold his first book out of his garage and Amazon was born. He believed that he could provide people the same product they could get in a bookstore but knew that he could do it more efficiently. With less overhead from selling direct to consumer, Bezos provided his customers a discounted rate as well as the ability to receive his product right to their front door. He then utilized the same principle to provide ecommerce solutions for almost any product for which his customers asked. His recent purchase of Whole Foods for just under $13.4 billion not only shows his ability to grow a company off of one pinwheel product, it illustrates how companies who focus initially on what they do best, can branch off into a multitude of new products, as well as new industries.
In 2006, Martin Eberhard and Elon Musk released the first ever electric sports car, the Tesla Roadster. Within only a few years they had catapulted themselves into one of the highest selling American car companies while disrupting the entire industry worldwide. It was through their success that they were able to purchase tertiary companies like Solar City while building their new battery storage facility called a gigafactory. Marc Cuban has argued that Tesla may just be a proof-of-concept for Elon Musk by showing people how important it is for us to not only create renewable energy, but to be able to store it efficiently.
What do all of these companies have in common, other than undeniable success? They started their companies by focusing on one thing, what they believe they can do better than anyone else in the world. You and I are just like these companies, at one point or another we are all attempting to find what we do best. Typically that will be found when what we are most passionate about aligns with how we can best make a positive impact in the lives of those around us, and in our community as a whole.
Our competitive advantage will not just be based around a specific job we do, it will be the way in which we best communicate our ideas. Some are better suited to verbally communicate their ideas through the written word or through giving speeches. While others will be better accustomed to share what they believe most strongly in through visual representation by the art that they create. Our advantage will transcend over any job or work we do, it will permeate itself into every aspect of our lives.
Our goal must be to focus on what we do best and then to add spokes off of our pinwheel product through complimentary skillsets and knowledge. This will not only increase the value of our competitive advantage, it will also provide more options to our customers. We need to continually growing our knowledge base on our areas of interest in order to strengthen the value proposition that we provide.
We are all pinwheel products, but our strength lies within our ability to focus first on what we do best before we branch off into what can make us better. Evel Knievel realized early on that his competitive advantage was his ability to mystify a crowd by doing something no one had done, or was willing to do, before. He then was able to continue to evolve his demand by adding new tricks to his bag of which others would pay to see.
We owe it to those around us to develop our pinwheel product so that we can create a world where a summer’s breeze keeps the whole world spinning, and that makes us feel fine.
(Evel Knievel created demand for himself by realizing that he was a pinwheel product.)
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St. Paul, Minnesota
April 5, 2025
Over 20,000 people met at the Minnesota capitol to protest against Republicans, Donald Trump and Elon Musk gutting services, raising prices, and threatening to slash Medicaid and Social Security. This one one of hundreds of protests described as a "national mass activation in defiance of the Trump-Musk billionaire takeover and the far right assault on our freedoms and our communities... an all-in moment for the pro-democracy, pro-worker movement—a demand, a warning, and a rallying cry".
2025-04-05 This is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Give attribution to: Fibonacci Blue
A man stands with a sign reading "Say No To Doge! Who Elected Musk President?" outside a Tesla facility in Minneapolis.
Almost ten years ago, I photographed Twitter’s sign on the day of the IPO
theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/04/twitter-ipo-future...
flickr.com/photos/44124466908@N01/sets/72157636170764083
In 2014, there was a protest of the Twitter tax break
flickr.com/photos/44124466908@N01/sets/72157644106175975
2015
flickr.com/photos/44124466908@N01/sets/72157654973120325
(And many more)
In December 2022, I covered a protest of Elon Musk at Twitter
flickr.com/photos/44124466908@N01/sets/72177720309362439
Today, Musk tried to take down the Twitter sign as he changes the name to X.
It was stopped by SFPD & then axe signs & wayfinding (awesome xtraordinary effective) was allowed to remove the i leaving er & the Twitter bird on one side.
A SFPD officer said it was mistaken communication because Musk didn’t contact the owner.
But Musk knew he had to contact the owner because when he covered the W to have titter, the owner made him remove it.
You can see the W he painted white on the ground in a few photos. It didn’t work very well - people could still see the W.
sfist.com/2023/04/10/elon-musk-gets-more-juvenile-paints-...
www.ktvu.com/news/elon-musk-changes-twitter-headquarters-...
There was a lot of media & media coverage
www.theverge.com/2023/7/24/23140317/twitter-sign-sf-hq-re...
sfstandard.com/2023/07/24/twitter-sign-being-removed-down...
www.ktvu.com/news/confusion-during-removal-of-twitter-sig...
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/elon-musk-twitter-sign-x-s...
www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/police-interrupt-as-twitter-l...
www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/twitter-sign-removal-san-fr...
www.cbsnews.com/amp/sanfrancisco/news/elon-musk-reveals-n...
First flight of SpaceX's Block V Falcon-9 carrying Bangladesh's first communications satellite to orbit
SpaceX Falcon 9 launched the SES-22 C band TV & 5G data communication satellite for SES of Luxembourg Wednesday afternoon at 5:04 p.m. EDT