Electron

And the purchase for ISAR doesn't seem to add too much from a capability standpoint, but I think it does strengthen their ties to Europe and potentially capitalize on the space sovereignty push out there.

I thought the announcement was interesting, given that neither of them selected an Electron rocket, at least for what we know.

Whereas Electron is basically the same size as the ISAR rocket, but much more reliable.

I've been finding all the announcements about contracts signed with ISAR kind of surprising, given they've only launched once.

And there's plenty of rocket companies that can succeed the first time but fail the second.

As we'll see, their nature is predicted by quantum theory.

Measure electron magnetic moments and you verify your quantum picture of reality.

Electron magnetic fields seem intuitive if you think of them as tiny balls of rotating electric charge.

Except electrons aren't balls, and they aren't really rotating.

As far as we know, electrons are point-like.

Despite not being the same as classical rotation, this quantum spin does grant electrons a dipole magnetic field.

So electrons have a magnetic dipole moment, meaning they feel magnetic fields and act as little bar magnets.

Electrons in atoms feel the magnetic fields produced by their own orbits around the atom.

you know, they portray it as like a good thing.

And I think it's been very successful, but like, well, I guess it's, what is your opinion of Electron? Because that's what they basically say.

They like, we figured out that we could use Electron to basically build, you know, to take a web app and basically make it a desktop app.

So, and they got in the documentary, it's like, this is perfect.

And I'm like, I don't know.

Like, it's just, they had no other choice, but they made it like, oh, this was amazing, and it was our plan all along, and it's like, eh.

No one downloaded your stuff so you did something else.

Well, I thought of you because the big thing they show is that they move it to Electron and then they show at one of the build conferences, it running on Linux, Ubuntu specifically, and there's huge applause.

But that really wasn't for cars.

It was with Electron to do their factory tour of where they make their adapters and equipment and so forth.

But I got to take a couple of spins while I was there.

But, yeah, it's amazing.

But we we've been It's Shell has been, it's like companies have been companies.

So I've had the privilege at Shell to work across like both the molecule side and on the Electron side.

So the first part of my career, I'd say the first five, six years was in the refining side, more of the downstream side of the business, closer to the products.

So I had a opportunity to deal with a lot of the supply chain elements on the commercial side with, you know, the likes of GE, turbine machinery, dresser ran and service agreements.