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Friday, May 30, 2025

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…Andrew Hunter, who until January served as #AirForce asst secy supervising the #AirForceOne effort, said that once the plane was acquired—by gift or purchase—it would represent a major new #cost for the #FederalGovernment.

Paying for the crew alone of an Air Force One jet costs >$37M a year, & the total annual operating cost is $134M a year…

“No one other than a nation-state—or an airline—could afford to operate this plane,” Hunter said. “It’s wildly #expensive.”

Today I had the honor to talk about ₿itcoin (again) in my high school. 2 hours of education for the kids and for me, a wonderful experience. Topics such as inflation, fiat currencies, pollution, consumption, supply and demand, cost, price, value and much more were touched upon. A very productive and educational day. It's always nice to go back to the classroom and share in a simple way something that has been with you for years and is a passion of yours, great!

https://www.instagram.com/stories/jacopo_graziuso/3624278166940765178?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igsh=NjhhenRxeTJ0NXBt

#bitcoin #education #school #inflation #fiat #currency #pollution #consumption #supply #demand #cost #price #value #asset

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If the #cost of launching and operating a #SpaceStation drops 📉 sufficiently, it will become feasible to conduct a number of industrial processes in #orbit. We are not talking about specific experiments here, but of #serial production processes conducted at scale. Some specialized industrial processes can be done more efficiently in space 🌌, because of the absence of #gravity, particularly some #biotech applications with tangible applications on Earth aerotime.aero/articles/how-sta

AeroTime · Starlab Space Swiss partnership to launch next space statioHow Starlab Space partnered with Swiss research institutions to develop the next generation of commercial space stations