4 ms·
He’s replicating a cutting edge material science in his garage. People are celebrating the optimistic spirit of Americans. The indomitable will that this countr
by nemo44x 3y ago
He’s replicating a cutting edge material science in his garage. People are celebrating the optimistic spirit of Americans. The indomitable will that this country encourages and the sense that anything is possible if you’re ambitious and smart enough to pull it off.
- ciniclinic 3y ago[dead]
- dbish 3y agoGarage? That’s an industrial lab
- giantrobot 3y agoMaybe the industrial lab is his garage? My "office" is also technically a bedroom. /s
- nemo44x 3y agoWith a motorcycle parked in it. It’s a garage space with some lab equipment in it. This is pure modern Americana.
- dbish 3y agoI don't deny it's awesome, but this is Varda's lab (pretty well funded VC startup). They're inspirational, but quite far from a lab :)
- Ar-Curunir 3y agolmao (a) it's an industrial lab. (b) if there's any optimism to be commended, it's that of the South Korean researchers who worked on this on-off for ~20 years.
- nemo44x 3y ago(A) It’s a metal garage that has some industrial equipment in it. There’s literally a motorcycle parked in it. (B) The Koreans will rightly get their Nobel if this pans out. But what McCalip has done could never happen in a place like, say, Europe. The people there just don’t have the fortitude (those that do come here!) for this kind of thing. America is rich with ambition and creating the future. Other places had their time and are just fossilized remains now. But fun to tour, especially when the people there dress up like their glorious ancestors that made them famous did. It’s fun to look at the past sometimes (but obviously not live in it!).