will25u said:

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JUST IN: SpaceX is reportedly in talks with the Trump administration over donating stock to help fund children’s Trump Accounts.

— Polymarket (@Polymarket) June 30, 2026

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This was one thing that Cruz mentioned several times when hyping the Trump Accounts in his podcast. NOT SpaceX specific, but charitable funds in general.

There are already numerous ultra wealthy that have pledged to fund eligible Trump Accounts with funds. Most of them are accounts within certain zip codes, such as near where that particular wealthy person lives.

The ultra wealthy are very charitable in general. BUT you are looking at quite literally needing a full time person, or persons, to evaluate and vet requests for donations. For some very worthwhile organizations, $5,000 would be a windfall. Other equally worthwhile organizations spend $5,000 before breakfast and need $5,000,000. SpaceX or Bill Gates, or T. Boone, Bezos, et al would be buried in legitimate requests for $5,000 -- $10,000 and could without blinking underwrite, for example, the Houston Rodeo.

Making contributions to Trump accounts is a way they can easily share their great wealth while also making meaningful investments in those kids futures.

RED AG 98 said:

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I would argue that particular analogy is just perception and in fact not time dilation, which as you say has real and measurable effect, to the point where it causes clocks -- whether electrical, quartz, mechanical, atomic, whatever -- to *actually* run faster.

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Clocks of whatever type always run the same rate. If you're in motion, time in your frame moves slower relative to the stationary frame you left behind.

The time axis is perpendicular to the 3 spatial axis. When you're looking at a frame that's in motion relative to you space and time in that frame do a hyperbolic rotation relative to yours.

No time in any frame "runs faster" on its own. It can run faster or slower relative to another frame.

It doesn't make sense to say how fast time flows in any frame in isolation. That would equate to "how many seconds per second does time flow". Your units cancel out. Spacetime is a static 4D structure and at each point in spacetime we have a different perception of the time and our location.

My take in it is that because of the 2nd law of thermodynamics, entropy only goes one way. Just like you can only break an egg and you can't unbreak it, our memories can only be chemically encoded in the positive time direction, so we only remember the past. That's why time seems to flow forwards for us.

I understand that. I was speaking relative to someone that remained in the initial frame on earth. If you were to travel at a high speed and then return to earth, the slowing effect would be observable by both parties.

My main point was mostly that time dilation is not the same thing as any "perceived delay" in observing a fast-moving object.

Ars Technica has a good writeup about the development of the plane NASA is testing.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/nasas-x-59-frankenjet-tests-supersonic-flight-without-the-sonic-boom/

Lex has a decent show on this, but again it's all over my pay grade.

S40 static fire again went well I saw. Hopefully on-track for a mid-July launch.

Starship 40 performing a 60 second full duration 6 engine static fire test at Starbase Massey's test site in preparation for Starship test flight 13. (4k)

7/1/26 pic.twitter.com/TazrIcnt86

— Starship Gazer (@StarshipGazer) July 1, 2026

TexAgs91 said:

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No time in any frame "runs faster" on its own. It can run faster or slower relative to another frame.

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This is true for special relativity but in general relativity the accelerating frame permanently diverges which is why the previous clock analogy breaks when the car turns around and returns to the original clock.

PJYoung said:

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Starship 40 performing a 60 second full duration 6 engine static fire test at Starbase Massey's test site in preparation for Starship test flight 13. (4k)

7/1/26 pic.twitter.com/TazrIcnt86

— Starship Gazer (@StarshipGazer) July 1, 2026

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I don't know what is more impressive. The deluge system or whatever is holding it down.

Starship 60-second static fire ahead of the thirteenth flight test pic.twitter.com/HKZkaXo7WN

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) July 2, 2026

The details of the upper stage startup appear to have changed to accommodate a better controlled flip vs. the previous flight.

Can see changes to the Starship startup sequence. Using 2 RVac engines and 1 sea level engine to initiate separation and flip for Super Heavy. This is different from the planned maneuver for Flight 12 using 3 RVac engines and 1 sea level. https://t.co/Nh7mmiSGW7

— Ryan Hansen Space (@RyanHansenSpace) July 2, 2026

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