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Frank Slazer
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Retired space executive 🚀🛰️🪐🌎🌗 & Syracuse U 🍊alumnus supporting space exploration and seeking beautiful sunsets in Long Beach, CA 🇺🇸🇱🇹🏳️‍🌈
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The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
December 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Today, we remember the 270 people who lost their lives in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing 37 years ago.

We honor their memory, forever and always 💙
December 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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December 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Beautiful!
December 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Fantastic new Christmas album for those of us who love New Orleans and its music:
December 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Lots to be done in the next 180 days! Of course the biggest challenge will be landing by 2028 & gearing up a lunar surface program in a very short period of time. Assuming Congress agrees & funding is forthcoming (NOT a given) Isaacman is going to be busy! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
ENSURING AMERICAN SPACE SUPERIORITY
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
December 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Proud to say this is in Long Beach!
Ford’s Car of the Future, Hatched in a Skunk Works Near Los Angeles www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/b...
Ford’s Car of the Future, Hatched in a Skunk Works Near Los Angeles
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Woo Hoo!!
November 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Rocking my @SyracuseU orange in Coober Pedy in the beautiful South Australian Outback!
September 25, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I’m always proud to rock my ⁦Syracuse University‬⁩ pride as I travel around the world - this time in Melbourne, Australia at the Royal Botanical Gardens!
September 18, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check.

In 1965:

-42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now.

-The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now.

-Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.
September 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Not a promising development for those hoping Congress will be able to restore NASA funding for science. This WH is committed to its spending priorities without regard to Congress.

Trump tries to wrest spending power from Congress as government shutdown looms
August 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Nope - he could care less
Umm, message to Mr. Musk...remember this? Asking for a friend.
August 26, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Who would have thought that video games would lead to our robot future!
Nvidia's new 'robot brain' goes on sale for $3,499 as company targets robotics for growth
August 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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For the love of god can tech companies stop shoving AI down our throats. I don’t want your annoying AI overview Google, give me a button to turn it off
August 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Mayor Richardson and Orbital OPS Schleuniger & COO Doherty did a convo: The vehicle will be built around the company’s proprietary 10,000lbs thrust engine. Astraeus delivers 10km/s of Delta-v, so the vehicle can be stationed in LEO & rapidly move to a target orbit when needed.
August 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson announcing the latest company to call Space Beach its home - Orbital Ops!
Their initial product is:
“A high-thrust, cryogenic platform that can loiter on-orbit for years at a time, as a tool for interception and space domain awareness.”
August 23, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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We stopped expanding the House in the 1920s, decided the Supreme Court should freeze in the 1930s, added the last states in the 1950s, amended the Constitution only once in the last fifty years.

The USA and its government continued to grow, but almost all that growth came in the executive branch.
i really think the only reason we haven't created new states — which was a common political tactic in the 19th century, see nevada and the dakotas — is that 50 is a round number
August 11, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Someone forgot to take down this webpage:

www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
August 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Drug Enforcement Administration officers patrolling the National Mall.

If you know DC you understand how tremendously goofy this is

(h/t @lorenzohall1.bsky.social)
August 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Via #TimesOfIndia Musk Announces Starship Flight To Mars with Optimus Robot Crew. (Me: Elon, just stop with the nonsense. As A US Taxpayer, concentrate on the Artemis human lunar landing system, like we are paying you to do.) timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/elon...
Elon Musk has made an announcement: ‘Starship flight to Mars crewed by Optimus in Nov/Dec next year’ | - The Times of India
Science News: Elon Musk has adjusted SpaceX's Mars mission timeline, pushing back the potential Starship launch to 2028 for an uncrewed flight and 2030 for a crewed
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
August 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM