LK-99's Superconductor Promise, Bitcoin's Resilience, and More Sunday Thoughts
On this warm, sunny East coast late July day I'm sipping on some room temperature (fittingly) Tito's Vodka, pondering superconductor economies of nexteryear, and keeping an eye on ever hopeful Bitcoin
LK-99 hope springs eternal. The alleged miracle superconductor with “zero resistivity” when tested as a thin film (meaning electricity flows through it very well) requires peer review and mass replication attempts around the world, from every laboratory with the means to do so. Instead, the well vetted research team’s paper — presented recently at a 4 day materials science industry conference in Seoul, South Korea — has been met mostly with armchair scorn, and even a tsk-tsk from Scientific American that we should all know better.
Yet is this not how science is done? Three credible university-level researchers say they stumbled across something significant, they’ll never work in academia or the materials industry again if there is nothing to these claims.
The Wright Brothers had a claim one day that they had solved flight and look how advanced air travel is today. True or false, LK-99 deserves a proper public facing investigation before being tossed away as ludicrous.
Ludicrous to big oil and other established interests, perhaps. But this one got out, so far and wide, that if replication occurs at another lab — doesn’t matter how many big oil goons or deepstate Scooby Doo bagmen try to stop it — the world will adopt LK-99 in a hurry.
People and businesses are desperate for something entirely new.
Our current civilizational technology set will be like a weekend in quaint Amish country, compared to the high tech splendor ahead — if assisted by a real room temperature superconductor, which is exactly what LK-99’s discoverers purport it is.
Bitcoin moves beyond categorization
Looks like Bitcoin has survived a wave of DC politico anger — a spasm of blame — largely unharmed, with the failure of crypto exchange FTX now a distant memory for many consumers, and with BTC back on institutions’ radar thanks to BlackRock recently filing for (although not yet receiving approval) a spot Bitcoin ETF intended for US markets.
We live in such unique times, with multiple techno-revolutions occurring simultaneously and alongside each other — Bitcoin and blockchain, then this LK-99 miracle rock if verified, and the recent rise of chatty AIs — it’s finally starting to come into focus, partially at least, how we might find ourselves a Ridley Scott interstellar civilization within our lifetimes… provided we eat right, pace ourselves, develop the necessary spaceflight engine technology upgrades over the years, etc.
The UFO testimony week in Congress
Just don’t know what to make of any of that yet.
When my views are more concrete and certain, will let you all know.
In the meantime, I find this to be the single most terrifying aspect of what was revealed over the past week by enthusiastic UFO whistleblowers appearing before Congress:
Interesting times, my friends.
Onward,
D
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