the one line that we always use is we take our ourselves not particularly seriously but we take our work very seriously you know we want to be pushing it to frontier i think and you're in some ways is like the true embodiment of that culture you know and varda and it's great to see the world you know sort of finally recognize.

And i think you'll continue to see us basically talk about you know even more so than before basically the very interesting type of engineering that art is going through on a day by day basis that isn't just the floating rocks but all the very interesting things.

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All right everybody in case you've been living under a rock lk 99 experiments have completely taken over the dialogue on x.

From my known as twitter.

For those non scientists in the audience lk 99 is a claim method of creating the first ever room temperature super conductor if you want to have maglev trains or.

Maybe reduce the amount of friction and lost energy when you're sending electricity over cables man if you could have a room temperature super conductor that would.

Could possibly five or 10 x the efficiency of energy as it moves around the planet from what I've heard this paper was released about 10 days ago.

By a group of South Korean researchers it's called lk 99 because.

The scientists Lee and Kim who performed this experiment in research did it back in 1999 here we are almost 25 years later.

Paper was released on a website called archive or a pre release apparently people are kind of racing for.

Their.

No more peace prizes or whatever you get for this.

Reportedly so.

One of the interesting things is that a team that we all know well varda which is a company that's building factories in space.

Back by the folks at founders fund our friends over there full disclosure i'm an lp and a couple of their funds they decided that they would.

Work on this and so delian welcome to the program and Andrew McCallop welcome to the program how are you doing boys.

Oh thanks Jason this has been an absolutely wild ride this started about like you said eight days ago.

Just reading a paper in my spare time the evening and here we are a week later and it's absolutely blown up into probably the most wholesome trend on Twitter X that we've seen in years so it's been super exciting.

And delian i take it Andrew works for you he's the head of rnd at your company he reads his paper and says hey boss instead of you know hitting our milestones to get these factories up and running in space.

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