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Eric Weinstein: The State of American Science, Breakthrough Coverups, and the Danger of Physics Aug 27, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 57:13 David Friedberg Well, let's take, and, and, and I think a large amount of the energy produced in the sun is neutrinos that actually come out. 2 times in the scene

RKLB Factory Tour: Satellites, Spacecraft & Mission Control Aug 26, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:30 Sir Peter Beck Five million miles, um, you know, in a, almost a heliocentric orbit around the sun, so that's a spare one.

Multi-GPU Kernels, Intelligence per Watt, Heterogeneous Inference, and More | YC Paper Club · Y Combinator Jul 29, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:08 Francois Chaubard You can put it literally at the sun, like, you know, orbiting the sun and just training, training, training.

Bloom Energy CEO: Why We Aren’t in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty & The Future of Power · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 29, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 44:43 Harry Stebbings Kind of energy abundance for a futuristic data center in space is often kind of proclaimed to be this kind of holy grail capturing energy from the sun and, you know, um, how much of a solution is that versus a bluntly unrealistic pipe…

SpaceX’s Lunar Mass Driver, OpenAI Hires Meta’s Top Ad Exec, Zuck Builds CEO Agent | Diet TBPN Mar 23, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 13:01 John Coogan You can't just have this demo unit that's just blasting rocks into the sun. 3 times in the scene

Elon's Moon Mass Driver: Here's How He'll Do It Mar 23, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 21:33 John Coogan The problem with Mars is farther away from the sun, so you have to put out a lot of solar panels, um, and that's why maybe they're thinking nuclear on the, on Mars, but it's, it's not like they've never thought about how do you deploy… 3 times in the scene

🔬 From Red Teaming GPT-4 to Automating Drug Discovery: The Future of AI in Science — Andrew White Jan 28, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 18:06 Andrew White Like some little calculations you can do that, like, there's more atoms in the brain than you could ever simulate, even if you had all the energy from the sun, right? 2 times in the scene

4 dumb ideas that made people rich Jan 23, 2026 · 1 mention

Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They've Changed) Dec 3, 2025 · 1 mention

Elon Musk: OpenAI Betrayal, His Future at Tesla, and the Next Big Thing — Grokipedia Oct 31, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 1:27:18 Elon Musk And in the limit, you just have a giant gravitationally contained thermonuclear reactor like the sun. 5 times in the scene

Secret Monk Practice To Stop Anxiety & Overthinking! | Dandapani Sep 18, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 54:52 unnamed speaker It's more like I talked about approaching the sun, right? 3 times in the scene

He Who Masters Self Masters Chaos: Ted Santos on Why Jobs Went to India Sep 2, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:09 Ted Santos Even natural science is not as consistent as we think, because some person asked questions, and there are lots of things that were scientific, as the Earth used to be the center of the universe, and I guess it changed addresses and let the…

A double episode: AI differentiation, and Apple does F1 Aug 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:06 Benedict Evans Um, there was a, um, there was a story from a long time ago, also from the world of sports rights, that Kelvin McKenzie, who had edited The Sun and then had a sports radio station in the UK, didn't have the rights to a football match in,…

The tape that led to a fusion breakthrough Jun 18, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:57 Rick Needham Solar, wind, fossil fuels are all basically derivatives of our local fusion power plant, the sun.

Nikhil Kamath x Netflix Co-CEO, Ted Sarandos | People by WTF | Ep. 10 · Nikhil Kamath Jun 7, 2025 · 2 mentions

AI at the Intersection of Bio | Vijay Pande, Surya Ganguli & Bowen Liu Oct 3, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:42 Vijay Pande And then from that, you get f equals ma, and you get planets orbiting the sun.

Mike Schroepfer: Former Meta CTO on "Why The Best Leaders are Like Music Conductors" | E1158 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 29, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 49:15 Mike Schroepfer So they have built the world's most powerful magnets, and this is a kind of fusion reactor, which is called a tokamak, which kind of makes a, a donut shaped like magnetic field, which then you basically burn a plasma at hotter than the…

Ep# 14 | WTF is Happening with EV? Nikhil ft. Founders of Reva, Ather, Blusmart, and Ossus · Nikhil Kamath Dec 10, 2023 · 1 mention

The Unanswered Questions of Space: Quantum Entanglement, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy Oct 30, 2023 · 2 mentions

Beaming 24/7 solar… from space Aug 10, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 4:51 Sanjay Vijendran You can see the sun, 24 seven, and the intensity of the sun is the maximum unfiltered by the atmosphere, and there you can collect solar energy from our sun, um, in, in the best way possible. 2 times in the scene

David Friedberg — How Technology Solves Our Climate Crisis Feb 15, 2023 · 4 mentions

E108: Doxing debate, Nuclear fusion breakthrough, state of the markets & more Dec 16, 2022 · 3 mentions

Roku: Anthony Wood Nov 21, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:24 Guy Raz And I'm, I'm assuming you, you use some of the money from sunrise to, uh, uh, to get this new company going.

HIBT Lab! Quaise Energy: Carlos Araque Aug 4, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:28 Guy Raz Fahrenheit, which is about the same temperature as the surface of the sun.

E87: Emerging markets, Sri Lanka, 9.1% CPI, market sentiment, NASA's Webb telescope & more Jul 14, 2022 · 2 mentions

Making sense of solar engineering Jun 16, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 25:48 Dan Visioni Uh, so at the point, the Lagrangian point where the gravity of the sun equals the one of the planet, so we wouldn't really need that much effort to keep the space mirrors there, but we still need to carry them there. 2 times in the scene

Elon Musk: Twitter's bot problem, SpaceX's grand plan, Tesla stories & more May 16, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 51:21 Elon Musk Fusion on earth when we have a gigantic fusion reactor in the sky that just works with zero maintenance and it shows up every day.

Are We Alone In The Universe? (with Tim Urban) May 12, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 57:42 Tim Urban Cause I'm like, you can't like, but it's like, you know, you could cover up the sun and it would be burning just as bright and just as, as, as you know, doesn't, there's nothing it needs from the outside of it.

Andrew Huberman: The Science of Small Changes Mar 22, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 16:42 Dr. Andrew Huberman But if you do this most days, your system starts to hum along with the natural rhythms of the rise and falling of the sun. 4 times in the scene

E67: Revisiting Rogan, Canadian truckers' protest, fusion breakthrough, $MSFT's savvy move & more Feb 12, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 45:14 David Friedberg So, you know, the, um, the way energy is made in the sun and in all stars is through this process of nuclear fusion where hydrogen, uh, nuclei, the, the protons inside of hydrogen atoms shoot around. 2 times in the scene

Chas Cocke - From Allocator to Manager (Capital Allocators, EP.224) Nov 29, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:28 Chas Cocke Well, how come just because the earth makes a trip around the sun, it means you should get paid.

#108 Thomas Zurbuchen: Adventures in Astrophysics Apr 6, 2021 · 3 mentions

a16z Podcast | New Year, New Horizons -- Pluto! Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 6:26 Ivan Linscott Well, because Pluto is 40, roughly 37 right now, you know, forty-ish AU out from the Sun, 40 times the distance. 2 times in the scene

Rachel Schutt, Newscorp // Data Driven #28 // June 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) Jun 26, 2014 · 1 mention

Panel: Continuuity, Sailthru and Visual Revenue // Data Driven NYC #7 // June 2012 Dec 5, 2013 · 1 mention

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